Patrick SchlossAssistant Professor Phone: 413-545-6751 Ph.D.: Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell, 2002 Lab Group Home Page |
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Research InterestsUnderstanding the evolution and interactions among members of the Tribolium castaneum microbiome, identifying novel hydrolases from hot soils, developing statistical tool to describe and compare microbial communities. Representative publications of our work include...Delalibera, I Jr, Vasanthakumar, A, Burwitz, BJ, Schloss, PD , Klepzig, KD, Handelsman, J, & Raffa, KF. (2007). Composition of the bacterial community in the gut of the pine engraver, Ips pini (Say)(Coleoptera) colonizing Red Pine. Symbiosis. 43(2):97-104. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J. (2007). The last word. Annual Reviews in Microbiology. 61:23-34. Vasanthakumar, A, Delalibera, I Jr, Schloss, PD , Handelsman, J, Klepzig, KD, & Raffa, KF. (2006) Characterization of gut-associated bacteria in larvae and adults of the Southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann. Environmental Entomology. 35(6):1710-1717. Curtis, TP, Head, IM, Lunn, M, Woodcock, S, Schloss, PD , Sloan, WT. (2006). What is the extent of prokaryotic diversity? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 361(1475):2023-2037. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J. (2006) Introducing SONS, a tool for OTU-based comparisons of membership and structure between microbial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(10):6773-6779. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J. (2006). Toward a census of bacteria in soil. PLoS Computational Biology . 2(7):e92. Schloss, PD , Delalibera, I. Jr., Handelsman, J, & Raffa, KF. (2006). Bacteria associated with the guts of invasive and native wood-boring beetles. Environmental Entomology . 35(3):625-629. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J. (2006). Introducing TreeClimber, a test to compare community structures. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(4): 2379-2384. Williamson, LL, Borlee, BR, Schloss, PD , Guan, C & Handelsman, J (2005). Genes for quorum sensing in uncultured bacteria from Alaskan soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(10):6355-6344. Schloss, PD & Handelsman J. (2005). Metagenomics for studying unculturable microorganisms: cutting the Gordian knot. Genome Biology. 6(8):229-233. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J. (2005). Introducing DOTUR, a computer program for defining operational taxonomic units and estimating species richness. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(3):1501-1506. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J (2004). The status of the microbial census. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 68(4):686-691. Riesenfeld, CS, Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J (2004). Metagenomics. Annual Reviews in Genetics. 38:525-52. Schloss, PD, Larget, BR, & Handelsman J. (2004). Integration of microbial ecology and statistics: a test to compare gene libraries. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(9):5485-5492. Schloss, PD & Handelsman, J (2003). Biotechnological prospects from metagenomics. Current Opinions in Biotechnology. 14(3):303-310. |
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Mailing AddressPatrick Schloss |
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