 FACULTY
Mya Breitbart
Biological Oceanography
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University, 2006
(727) 553-3520
In every milliliter of surface seawater, there are 1 million bacteria and 10 million viruses. Microbes are very diverse, and play important roles in global carbon and nutrient cycling. The Breitbart lab uses molecular techniques (such as metagenomic sequencing) to examine the diversity, distribution, and ecological roles of viruses and bacteria in a wide range of environments - including seawater, marine animals, coral reefs, and reclaimed water. Current projects in the Breitbart lab include: 1) Diversity and Distribution of Pathogenic Viruses in the Florida Keys, 2) Viruses in Reclaimed Water, 3) Identification of Novel Pathogenic Viruses from Marine Animals, 4) Microbiology of Coral Restoration, 5) Abundance, Dynamics, and Diversity of Viruses in the Northwestern Sargasso Sea, 6) Microbial Ecology of Living Microbialites in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico.
Selected Publications
Angly, F.E., B. Felts, M. Breitbart, P. Salamon, R.A. Edwards, C. Carlson, A.M. Chan, M. Haynes, S. Kelley, H. Liu, J. Mahaffy, J.E. Mueller, J. Nulton, R. Olson, R. Parsons, S. Rayhawk, C.A. Suttle, F. Rohwer. (2006). The marine viromes of four oceanic regions. PLoS Biology. 4: e368.
Zhang, T, M. Breitbart, W.H. Lee, J-Q. Run, C.L. Wei, S.W.L. Soh, M.L. Hibberd, E. Liu, F. Rohwer, Y. Ruan. (2006) RNA viral community in human feces: Prevalence of plant pathogenic viruses. PLoS Biology. 4: e3.
Breitbart, M., and F. Rohwer. 2005. Method for discovering novel DNA viruses in blood using viral particle selection and shotgun sequencing. Biotechniques. 39: 729-736.
Breitbart, M., and F. Rohwer. 2005. Here a virus, there a virus, everywhere the same virus? Trends in Microbiology. 13: 278-284.
Breitbart, M., R. Bhagooli, S. Griffin, I. Johnston, F. Rohwer. 2005. Microbial communities associated with skeletal tumors on Porites compressa. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 243: 431-436.
Breitbart, M., J.H. Miyake, F. Rohwer. 2004. Global distribution of nearly identical phage-encoded DNA sequences. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 236: 245-252.
Breitbart, M., B. Felts, S. Kelley, J.M. Mahaffy, J. Nulton, P. Salamon, F. Rohwer. 2004. Diversity and population structure of a nearshore marine sediment viral community.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 271: 565-574.
Breitbart, M., L. Wegley, S. Leeds, T. Schoenfeld, F. Rohwer. 2004. Phage community dynamics in hot springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 1633-1640.
Breitbart, M., P. Salamon, B. Andresen, J. Mahaffy, A. Segall, D. Mead, F. Azam, F. Rohwer. 2002. Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities. Proceedings of the National Academy USA. 99:14250-14255.
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