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Julie A. Huber
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Current projects:
Microbiology of a Sediment Pond and the Underlying Young, Cold, Hydrologically Active Ridge Flank, Funded by the International Ocean Drilling Program
Anthropogenic impacts and profiling fecal microbial populations at a salt marsh, Funded by the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health
Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans, W.M. Keck Foundation,
From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems
Funded by NASA, 2003-10-01 to 2008-10-31.

Education:
2004 PhD, Oceanography, University of Washington
Certificate in Astrobiology, University of Washington
2000 MS, Oceanography, University of Washington
1998 BS, Marine Science, Biology, Eckerd College


Academic Appointments:
2007-present Assistant Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory
2005-2006 NRC/NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory

Professional memberships:

Association for Women in Science
American Geophysical Union
American Society for Microbiology
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Distinctions and awards:
2007 L’Oréal USA Fellowship for Women In Science
2004 National Research Council Research Associateship Award
2004 Second Place, NASA Astrobiology Science Conference Student Poster Award
2003 School of Oceanography Dean A. McManus Excellence in Teaching Award
2002 First Place, NASA Astrobiology Science Conference Student Poster Award
1999 Totem Award (Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America)and Communicator of Excellence Award (Washington Press Association) for “Life Deep Down: Scientists explore undersea volcanic vents” on ABCNews.com
1998 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
1998 Sigma Xi
1997 Ford Foundation Scholar
1996 NASA/Joint University Venture Scholar
Publications:

Huse, S. M., J. A. Huber, Morrison, H. G., Sogin, M.L., Mark Welch, D. (2007). Accuracy and quality of massively-parallel DNA pyrosequencing. Genome Biology 8: R143.

Huber, J.A., D.B. Mark Welch, H.G. Morrison, S.M. Huse, P.R. Neal, D.A. Butterfield, and M.L. Sogin. 2007. Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere. Science 318: 97-100.

Huber, J.A., D.B. Mark Welch, H.G. Morrison, S.M. Huse, P.R. Neal, D.A. Butterfield, and M.L. Sogin. 2007. Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere. Science 318: 97-100.

Wells, L.E, Armstrong, J.A. and J.A. Huber. 2007. Disciplinary aspirations and educational opportunities. In W.T. Sullivan III and J.A. Baross (eds.), 547-557. Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Baross, J.A., Schrenk, M.O, and J.A. Huber. 2007. Limits of Carbon Life on Earth and Elsewhere. In W.T. Sullivan III and J.A. Baross (eds.), 275-291. Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Huber, J.A., Butterfield, D.A., and J.A. Baross (2002). Temporal changes in archaeal diversity and chemistry in a mid-ocean ridge subseafloor habitat, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 68:1585-1594.

Huber, J.A., Butterfield, D.A., and J.A. Baross (2003). Bacterial diversity in a subseafloor habitat following a deep-sea volcanic eruption, FEMS Microbiol. Ecology, 43:393-409.

Johnson, H. P. and LEXEN Scientific Party (2003). Probing for life in the ocean crust with the LEXEN program, Eos, Trans. AGU., 84:109-112.

Butterfield, D.A., Lilley, M.D., Huber, J.A., Roe, K.K., Embley, R.W., and G.J. Massoth (2004). Mixing, reaction, and microbial activity in sub-seafloor hydrothermal upflow zones: Evidence from diffuse flow outcrops across the 1998 Axial Volcano Sea-floor eruption area through time, in The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, ed. W.S.D. Wilcock, E.F. DeLong, D.S. Kelley, J.A. Baross, and S.C. Cary, American Geophysical Union Press, Washington, D.C., 269-289.

Mehta, M.P., Huber, J.A., and J.A. Baross (2005). Incidence of novel and potentially archaeal nitrogenase genes in the deep NE Pacific Ocean. Environmental Microbiology, 7:1525-1534.

Huber, J.A., Butterfield, D.A., Johnson, H.P., and J.A. Baross (2006). Microbial life in ridge flank crustal fluids. Environmental Microbiology 88:88-99.

Sogin, M.L., H.G. Morrison, J.A. Huber, D Mark Welch, S.M. Huse, P.R. Neal, J.M. Arrieta, and G.J. Herndl. (2006) Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere." Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 103: 12115-12120.

Huber, J. A., D. A. Butterfield, and J. A. Baross (2006), Diversity and distribution of subseafloor Thermococcales populations in diffuse hydrothermal vents at an active deep-sea volcano in the northeast Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G04016, doi:10.1029/2005JG000097.

Bach, W., Edward, K.J, Hayes, J.M., Huber, J.A., Sievert, S.M., and M.L. Sogin. 2006. Energy in the dark: Fuel for life in the deep ocean and beyond. Eos, Trans. AGU. 87:73-78.