Research Outputs
The Palmer Lab is involved in diverse and varied projects associated with evolution and ecology, with a focus on extremophilic archaea and bacteria.
Featured Projects
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Filling in the knowledge gaps on microbial dark matter
Large parts of the research pursued in our lab focus on poorly understood microbial lineages. For this purpose, we use cultivation-dependent and -independent approaches for improving our understanding of these dynamic, yet understudied, microbial lineages.
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Taxonomy of poorly classified lineages
As taxonomy forms the basis for understanding evolution, heavy focus is placed on the taxonomy of poorly classified microbial lineages. To this end, genome-based taxonomic studies are conducted in our lab, and both the nascent SeqCode and the ICNP are leveraged to name novel taxa and provide taxonomic stability to poorly classified lineages.
Publications
Palmer M., Nou N.O., Turello L.A., Power C.E., Ong J.C., Lai D., Reysenbach A.-L., Qi Y.-L., Dodsworth J.A., Jiao J.-Y., Liu L., Lian Z.-H., Li M.-M., Liu Y., Briggs B.R., Zuo H., Quake S.R., Eloe-Fadrosh E.A., Woyke T., Dong H., Li W.-J., Hua Z., Hedlund B.P. Dynamic evolution of nitrogen cycle and pH homeostasis genes enabled the diversification of Pampinifervens gen. nov. (Aquificaceae). Preprint, Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4032669/v1
Nou N.O., Covington J.K., Lai D., Mayali X., Seymour C.O., Johnston J., Jiao J.-Y., Buessecker S., Mosier D., Muok A.R., Torosian N., Cook A.M., Briegel A., Woyke T., Eloe-Fadrosh E.A., Shapiro N., Bryan S.G., Sleezer S., Dimapilis J., Gonzalez C., Gonzalez L., Noriega M., Hess M., Carlson R.P., Liu L., Li M.-M., Lian Z.-H., Zhu S., Liu F., Sun X., Gao B., Mewalal R., Harmon-Smith M., Blaby I.K., Cheng J.-F., Weber P.K., Grigorean G., Li W.-J., Dekas A.E., Pett-Ridge J., Dodsworth J.A., Palmer M., Hedlund B.P. Genome-guided isolation of Fervidibacter sacchari, an aerobic, hyperthermophilic polysaccharide-degrading specialist. Preprint, Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3760178/v1
Covington J.K., Torosian N., Cook A.M., Palmer M., Bryan S.G., Nou N.O., Mewalal R., Harmon-Smith M., Blaby I.K., Cheng J.-F., Hess M., Brumm P.J., Singh N.K., Venkateswaran K.,Hedlund B.P (2024) Biochemical characterization of Fsa16295Glu from “Fervidibacter sacchari,” the first hyperthermophilic GH50 with β-1,3-endoglucanase activity and founding member of the subfamily GH50_3. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15:1355444. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1355444
van Lill M., Venter S.N., Muema E.K., Palmer M., Chan W.Y., Beukes C.W., Steenkamp E.T. (2024) SeqCode facilitates naming of South African rhizobia left in limbo. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 126504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2024.126504
Whitman W.B., Chuvochina M., Hedlund B.P., Konstantinidis K.T., Palmer M., Rodriguez-R L.M., Sutcliffe I.C., Wang F. (2024) Why and how to use the SeqCode. mLife, 3:1–13.​ https://doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12092
Crosby K.C., Rojas M., Sharma P., Johnson M.A., Mazloom R., Kvitko B.H., Smits T.H.M., Venter S.N., Coutinho T.A., Heath L.S., Palmer M., Vinatzer B.A. (2023) Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14:1254999. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1254999
For all works by Marike Palmer see her ORCID or Google Scholar profile!