Publications

Gomaa F, Li Z-H, Beaudoin DJ, Alzan H, Girguis PR, Docampo R, Edgcomb VP. CRISPR/Cas9-induced disruption of Bodo saltans paraflagellar rod-2 gene reveals its importance for cell survival. Environmental Microbiology. 2022.

Baker IR, Conley BE, Gralnick JA, Girguis PR. Evidence for Horizontal and Vertical Transmission of Mtr-Mediated Extracellular Electron Transfer among the Bacteria. mBio. 2022;13 (1) :e02904–21.

de Oliveira AL, Mitchell J, Girguis P, Bright M. Novel insights on obligate symbiont lifestyle and adaptation to chemosynthetic environment as revealed by the giant tubeworm genome. Molecular biology and evolution. 2022;39 (1) :msab347.

Marlow JJ, Hoer D, Jungbluth SP, Reynard LM, Gartman A, Chavez MS, El-Naggar MY, Tuross N, Orphan VJ, Girguis PR. Carbonate-hosted microbial communities are prolific and pervasive methane oxidizers at geologically diverse marine methane seep sites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021;118 (25).

Leonard JM, Mitchell J, Beinart RA, Delaney JA, Sanders JG, Ellis G, Goddard EA, Girguis PR, Scott KM. Cooccurring Activities of Two Autotrophic Pathways in Symbionts of the Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2021;87 (17) :e00794–21.

Smith HH, Hyde AS, Simkus DN, Libby E, Maurer SE, Graham HV, Kempes CP, Sherwood Lollar B, Chou L, Ellington AD, et al. The grayness of the origin of life. Life. 2021;11 (6) :498.

Picard A, Gartman A, Girguis PR. Interactions Between Iron Sulfide Minerals and Organic Carbon: Implications for Biosignature Preservation and Detection. Astrobiology. 2021;21 (5) :587–604.

Trembath-Reichert E, Shah Walter SR, Ortiz MAF, Carter PD, Girguis PR, Huber JA. Multiple carbon incorporation strategies support microbial survival in cold subseafloor crustal fluids. Science Advances. 2021;7 (18) :eabg0153.

Helm RR, Clark N, Harden-Davies H, Amon D, Girguis P, Bordehore C, Earle S, Gibbons MJ, Golbuu Y, Haddock SHD, et al. Protect high seas biodiversity. Science. 2021;372 (6546) :1048–1049.

Marlow J, Spietz R, Kim K-Y, Ellisman M, Girguis P, Hatzenpichler R. Spatially resolved correlative microscopy and microbial identification reveal dynamic depth-and mineral-dependent anabolic activity in salt marsh sediment. Environmental microbiology. 2021;23 (8) :4756–4777.

Leprich DJ, Flood BE, Schroedl PR, Ricci E, Marlow JJ, Girguis PR, Bailey JV. Sulfur bacteria promote dissolution of authigenic carbonates at marine methane seeps. The ISME journal. 2021;15 (7) :2043–2056.

Chou L, Grefenstette N, Johnson SS, Graham H, Mahaffy P, Kempes C, Elsila JE, Libby E, Ellington A, Anslyn E, et al. Towards a more universal life detection strategy. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 2021;53 (4).

Girguis PR, Nielsen M, Reimers C. Fundamentals of benthic microbial fuel cells: theory, development and application. 2020.

Graham H, Johnson S, Anslyn E, Conrad P, Cronin L, Ellington A, Cook JE, Girguis PR, House CH, Kempes C, et al. Agnostic approaches to extant life detection on Ocean Worlds, in Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. AGU ; 2020.

Meyer JL, Jaekel U, Tully BJ, Glazer BT, Wheat GC, Lin H-T, Hsieh C-C, Cowen JP, Hulme SM, Girguis PR, et al. Author Correction: A distinct and active bacterial community in cold oxygenated fluids circulating beneath the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Scientific Reports. 2020;10 (1) :1–1.

Meyer JL, Jaekel U, Tully BJ, Glazer BT, Wheat GC, Lin H-T, Hsieh C-C, Cowen JP, Hulme SM, Girguis PR, et al. A distinct and active bacterial community in cold oxygenated fluids circulating beneath the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic ridge (vol 6, 22541, 2016). SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2020;10 (1).

Michel A, Johnson AS, Fauria K, Preston V, Nicholson DP, Hoer D, Girguis PR, Wankel SD. From the Seafloor to the Surface: In situ Chemical Analysis of Rising Bubbles along the Cascadia Margin, in Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. AGU ; 2020.

Girguis PR, Nielsen M, Reimers C. Fundamentals of benthic microbial fuel cells: theory, development and application. 2020.

Faktorová D{\'ıra, Nisbet ERR, Fernández Robledo JA, Casacuberta E, Sudek L, Allen AE, Ares M, Aresté C, Balestreri C, Barbrook AC, et al. Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. Nature methods. 2020;17 (5) :481–494.

Beam JP, George S, Record NR, Countway PD, Johnston DT, Girguis PR, Emerson D. Mud, microbes, and macrofauna: seasonal dynamics of the iron biogeochemical cycle in an intertidal mudflat. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2020 :921.

Breusing C, Mitchell J, Delaney J, Sylva SP, Seewald JS, Girguis PR, Beinart RA. Physiological dynamics of chemosynthetic symbionts in hydrothermal vent snails. The ISME journal. 2020;14 (10) :2568–2579.

Murray AE, Freudenstein J, Gribaldo S, Hatzenpichler R, Hugenholtz P, Kämpfer P, Konstantinidis KT, Lane CE, Papke TR, Parks DH, et al. Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria. Nature microbiology. 2020;5 (8) :987–994.

Picard A, Girguis PR. Role of Pressure in the Formation of Organo-Mineral Interactions: Implications for Organic Preservation in the Anoxic Subsurface, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol 2020. ; 2020 :B098–01.

Waterston J, Florea R, Girguis P. Undersea Supercharger™ Network?: A Commentary Promoting In-Situ Methane to Fuel Expansion of Seafloor Robotics. Marine Technology Society Journal. 2020;54 (5) :5–7.

Totoiu CA, Phillips JM, Reese AT, Majumdar S, Girguis PR, Raston CL, Weiss GA. Vortex fluidics-mediated DNA rescue from formalin-fixed museum specimens. PloS one. 2020;15 (1) :e0225807.

Picard A, Gartman A, Cosmidis J, Obst M, Vidoudez C, Clarke DR, Girguis PR. Authigenic metastable iron sulfide minerals preserve microbial organic carbon in anoxic environments. Chemical Geology. 2019;530 :119343.

Beinart RA, Luo C, Konstantinidis KT, Stewart FJ, Girguis PR. The bacterial symbionts of closely related hydrothermal vent snails with distinct geochemical habitats show broad similarity in chemoautotrophic gene content. Frontiers in microbiology. 2019 :1818.

German CR, Blackman DK, Fisher AT, Girguis PR, Hand KP, Hoehler TM, Huber JA, Marshall JC, Seewald J, Shock E, et al. Exploring ocean worlds: a systems-level approach for the search for life beyond Earth, in 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference. AGU ; 2019.

Mitchell JH, Leonard JM, Delaney J, Girguis PR, Scott KM. Hydrogen does not appear to be a major electron donor for symbiosis with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and environmental microbiology. 2019;86 (1) :e01522–19.

Lebris N, Yücel M, Das A, Sievert SM, LokaBharathi PP, Girguis PR. Hydrothermal energy transfer and organic carbon production at the deep seafloor. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2019;5 :531.

Wankel SD, Johnson AS, Hoer D, Girguis PR, Michel AP. In situ Chemical Analysis of Rising Bubbles Along the Cascadia Margin, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol 2019. ; 2019 :OS23C–1798.

Johnson S, Graham H, Anslyn E, Conrad P, Cronin L, Ellington A, Elsila J, Girguis PR, House CH, Kempes C, et al. The Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures Project, in 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference. AGU ; 2019.

Marlow JJ, Hoer D, Reynard L, Girguis PR. Methane Hydrates as an Astrobiological Target: Lessons from Seafloor Methane Seeps, in 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference. AGU ; 2019.

Rowe AR, Xu S, Gardel E, Bose A, Girguis P, Amend JP, El-Naggar MY. Methane-linked mechanisms of electron uptake from cathodes by Methanosarcina barkeri. MBio. 2019;10 (2) :e02448–18.

Girguis PR. A peak behind the curtain: What Earth's thin biosphere reveals about the deep subsurface., in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol 2019. ; 2019 :B51D–08.

Bowles MW, Samarkin VA, Hunter KS, Finke N, Teske AP, Girguis PR, Joye SB. Remarkable capacity for anaerobic oxidation of methane at high methane concentration. Geophysical Research Letters. 2019;46 (21) :12192–12201.

Park JO, Liu N, Holinski KM, Emerson DF, Qiao K, Woolston BM, Xu J, Lazar Z, Islam AM, Vidoudez C, et al. Synergistic substrate cofeeding stimulates reductive metabolism. Nature Metabolism. 2019;1 (6) :643–651.

Girguis PR, Reimers CE, Gulay A, Baker I. Water, Water Everywhere: Bioelectrochemical Processes at Some of Earth’s most Extreme Aquatic Environments, and Implications for Astrobiological Research, in 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference. AGU ; 2019.

Girguis PR, Hoer D, Farr N, Wankel SD, Michel A. 200,000 KB Under The Sea: Combining High-speed Underwater Communications and Biogeochemical Sensors/Samplers for Deep-Sea Autonomous Exploration, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol 2018. ; 2018 :P42B–01.

Raineault NA, Bell KLC, Girguis P. Advancing ocean science and exploration through telepresence. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 2018;150 :1–3.