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Associate Scientist
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Contact Information:
Work: 508 289 3640
tmincer@whoi.edu
Building: Watson Building 109
Mailing Address:
Mailstop 51
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
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Research Interests
- Determining in situ selective pressures on marine microorganisms
- Elucidation of chemical communication and its role in coordinating microbial degradation of particles in the water column
- Marine microbial natural products and their role in protist grazing deterrence and quorum sensing disruption
- Use of heterologous expression techniques to determine heavy metal bio-transformation
- Gaining a deeper understanding of the epibiont community of the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Trichodesmium
Recent Publications
1. Van Mooy, B. A. S., Fredricks, H. F., Pedler, B. E., Dyhrman, S. T., Karl, D. M., Koblí?ek, M., Lomas, M., Mincer, T. J., Moore, L. R., Moutin, T., Rappé, M. and Webb, E. A. (2009) Phytoplankton in the oligotrophic ocean substitute phospholipids in response to phosphorus scarcity. Nature 458, 69-72.
2. Mincer, T. J., Church, M. J., Karl, D. M., & DeLong, E. F. “Investigation of the Archaeal Contribution to the Nitrification Process in the Marine Water Column” (2007) Environmental Microbiology 9, 1162-1175.
3. Frigaard, N. U., Martinez, A., Mincer, T. J. & DeLong, E. F. “Proteorhodopsin lateral gene transfer between marine planktonic Bacteria and Archaea” (2006) Nature 439, 847-50.
4. Hallam, S. J., Mincer, T. J., Schleper, C., Preston, C. M., Roberts, K., Richardson, P. M. & DeLong. E. F. “Environmental genomic reconstruction of potential carbon assimilation and ammonia oxidation pathways in marine Crenarchaeota” (2006) PLoS Biology 4, 520-536.
5. DeLong, E. F., Preston, C. M., Mincer, T., Rich, V., Hallam, S. J., Frigaard, N. U., Martinez, A., Sullivan, M. B., Edwards, R., Brito, B. R., Chisholm, S. W. & Karl, D. M. “Community genomics among stratified microbial assemblages in the ocean's interior” (2006) Science 311, 496-503.
Education
Postdoctoral Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2004–Spring 2008. Professor Edward F. DeLong, advisor
Ph.D. Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Fall 2004. Professor William Fenical, advisor
B.S. Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. Spring, 1995
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