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Julie Huber,
Assistant Scientist
Julie Huber's CV >>
I am a microbial oceanographer who studies the microbial ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. My research focuses on the subseafloor biosphere in oceanic crust and the physiological and phylogenetic diversity of microbes in crustal fluids. My objective is to describe and understand the evolutionary and community dynamics of microbial groups in the subseafloor habitat. Currently, I am using phylogenetic, metagenomic, cultivation-based, and geochemical measurements of deep-sea crustal fluids to link microbial groups with their metabolic and physiological functions in subseafloor habitats. Microorganisms from this environment offer opportunities to study many exciting aspects of marine microbial ecology, including molecular evolution, microbial diversity, biofilm formation, biogeography, adaptation to high temperatures, and functional genomics of complex communities. I am broadly interested in marine microbial ecosystems of all types, from coral reefs to marine sediments, and the methods and approaches that unite microbial scientists.
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Recent 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.
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., 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.
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