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Vita for Forest Rohwer
Education
University of California San Diego/San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program in Molecular Biology, 09/92-07/97 advisor: Kathleen McGuire - Doctoral dissertation: Interleukin-2 activation of intracellular signaling pathways: Effects on gene expression, proliferation, and apoptosis, pp. 1-174. 1997.
University of Idaho, Letters and Science, 09/91-05/92
College of Idaho, BAs in Biology, Chemistry, and History, 09/87-05/91
Professional Experience
San Diego State University. Associate Professor. 2007-present
San Diego State University. Assistant Professor. 2003-2007
San Diego State University. Adjunct Assistant Professor. 2001-2003
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Farooq Azam. 1997-2001
Publications
Johnston IS, F Rohwer (2007) Microbial landscapes on the outer tissue surfaces of the reef-building coral Porites compressa. Coral Reefs. 26 (2). 375-383.
Rosenberg E, CA Kellogg, F Rohwer (2007) Coral microbiology. Oceanography. 20 (2) 114-122.
Hoffmann KH, B Rodriguez-Brito, M Breitbart, D Bangor, F Angly, B Felts, J Nulton, F Rohwer, P Salamon (2007) Power law rank-abundance models for marine phage communities. FEMS Microbiological Letters 273. 224–228.
Beman, MJ, KJ Roberts, L Wegley, F Rohwer, CA Francis (2007; in press) Distribution and diversity of archaeal ammonia monooxygenase (amoA) genes associated with corals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Fierer, N, M Breitbart, J Nulton, P Salamon, C Lozupone, R Jones, M Robeson, R Edwards, B Felts, S Rayhawk, R Knight, F Rohwer, RB Jackson (2007; in press) Metagenomic and small-subunit rRNA analyses of the genetic diversity of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses in soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Angly F, B Felts, M Breitbart, P Salamon, RA Edwards, C Carlson, AM Chan, M Haynes, S Kelley, H Liu, J Mahaffy, JE Mueller, J Nulton, R Olson, R Parsons, S Rayhawk, CA Suttle, F Rohwer (2006) The marine viromes of four oceanic regions. PLoS Biology. 4 (11). 2121-2131. PDF
Casas V, J Miyake, H Balsley, J Roarke, S Telles, S Leeds, I Zurita, M Breitbart, D Bartlett, F Azam, F Rohwer (2006) Detection of phage-encoded exotoxins in the environment. FEM Microbiology Letters. 261. 141-149. PDF
Zhang, T, M Breitbart, WH Lee, J Run, CL Wei, SWL Soh, ML Hibberd, ET Liu, F Rohwer, Y Ruan (2006) RNA viral community in the human gut: Prevalence of plant pathogenic viruses. PLoS Biology. 4 (1). 1-11. PDF
Yu, Y, M Breitbart, F Rohwer (2006) FastGroupII: A web-based bioinformatics platform for analyses of large 16S rDNA libraries. BMC Bioinformatics. 7 (57). 1-9. PDF
Rodriguez-Brito B, F Rohwer, R Edwards (2006) A statistical approach to compare metagenomes. BMC Bioinformatics. 7 (162). PDF
Edwards RA, B Rodriguez-Brito, L Wegley, M Haynes, M Breitbart, DM Peterson, MO Saar, S Alexander, EC Alexander, Jr, F Rohwer (2006) Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology under extreme hydrogeological conditions. BMC Genomics. 7 (57). PDF
Smith JE, M Shaw, RA Edwards, M Hatay, D Obura, O Pantos, E Sala, SA Sandin, S Smriga, F Rohwer (2006) Effects of algae on coral: Algal-mediated, microbe-induced coral mortality. Ecology Letters. 9 (7). 835-845. PDF
Kline, D, N Kuntz, M Brietbart, N Knowlton, F Rohwer (2006) The unexpected and critical role of elevated organic carbon in coral mortality. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 314. 119-125. PDF
Wegley L, P Mosier-Boss, S Lieberman, F Rohwer (2006) Rapid enumeration of microbes using bulk fluorescence. Environmental Microbiology. 8 (10). 1775-1782. PDF
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. PDF
Hatay, M, N Kuntz, F Rohwer (2005) SPIDERS: A syringe pump system for long-term dosing underwater. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 3. 38-45 PDF
Sullivan, MB, M Coleman, P Weigele, F Rohwer, SW Chisholm (2005) Prochlorococcus cyanophage genomes: Phages adapted for infection of open-ocean photosynthetic cells. Public Library of Science (PLoS). 3 (5). 1-17. PDF
Purdy, A, F Rohwer, R Edwards, F Azam, and DH Bartlett (2005) A glimpse into the expanded genome content of the Vibrio cholerae species through the identification of genes present in environmental strains. Journal of Bacteriology. 187 (9). 2992-3001 PDF
Paul, JH, SJ Williamson, A Long, D John, A Segall, F Rohwer (2005) The complete genome of phiHSIC, a pseudotemperate marine phage of Listonella pelagia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71 (6). PDF
Edwards, RA, F Rohwer (2005) Viral Metagenomics. Nature Reviews in Microbiology. 3 (6). 504-510. PDF
Breitbart, M, F Rohwer (2005) Here a Virus, There a Virus, Everywhere the Same Virus?. Trend in Microbiology. 13 (6). 278-284. PDF
Kuntz, NM, D Kline, SA Sandin, F Rohwer (2005) Organic carbon and nutrient stressors cause different pathologies and mortality rates in three Caribbean coral species. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 294. 173-180. PDF
Breitbart, M and F Rohwer (2005) A method for discovering novel DNA viruses in blood. Biotechniques. 39 (5). 729-736. PDF
Angly, F, B Rodriguez Brito, D Bangor, P McNairnie, M Breitbart, P Salamon, B Felts, J Nulton, J Mahaffy, F Rohwer (2005) PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information. BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:41 PDF
Sano, E, S Carlson, L Wegley, F Rohwer (2004) Movement of viruses between biomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70 (10). 5842-5846. PDF
Breitbart, M, JH Miyake, F Rohwer (2004) Global distribution of nearly identical phage-encoded DNA sequences. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 236 (2) 245-252. PDF
Wegley, L, Y Yu, M Breitbart, V Casas, D Kline, F Rohwer (2004) Coral-associated Archaea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 273. 89-96. PDF
Casas, V, D Kline, L Wegley, Y Yu, M Breitbart, F Rohwer (2004) Bacterial communities associated with healthy and white band type I diseased Acroporid corals. Environmental Microbiology. 6(11). 1137-1148. PDF
Lindell, D, MB Sullivan, ZI Johnson, AC Tolonen, F Rohwer, SW Chisholm (2004) Photosynthesis genes in Prochlorococcus cyanophage. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 101 (30) 11013-11018. PDF
Breitbart, M, Wegley, L, Leeds, S, Schoenfeld, T, and F Rohwer (2004) Phage community dynamics in hot springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70 (30). 1633-1640. PDF
Breitbart, M, Felts, B, Kelley, S, Mahaffy, JM, Nulton, J, Salamon, P, and F Rohwer (2004) Diversity and population structure of a nearshore marine sediment viral community. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 271. 565-574. PDF
Breitbart, M, Hewson, I, Felts, B, Mahaffy, JM, Nulton, J, Salamon, P, and F Rohwer (2003) Metagenomic analyses of an uncultured viral community from human feces. Journal of Bacteriology. 85 (20). 6220-6223. PDF
Seguritan, V, Feng, I, Rohwer, F, Swift, M, and AM Segall (2003) Genome sequences of two closely related Vibrio parahaemolyticus phages, VP16T and VP16C, that coexist in the same host. Journal of Bacteriology. 185 (21). 6434-6447. PDF
Mosier-Boss, PA, Lieberman, SH, Andrews, JM, Rohwer, F, Wegley, LE, and M Breitbart (2003) The use of fluorescently-labeled phage in the detection/identification of bacterial species. Applied Spectroscopy. 57 (9). 1138-1144. PDF
Knowlton, N, and F Rohwer (2003) Microbial mutualisms on coral reefs: The host as a habitat. American Naturalist. 162. S51-S62. PDF
F Rohwer (2003) Global phage diversity. Cell. 113 (2).141. > preview for Pedulla et al. (2003) Origins of highly mosaic mycobacteriophage genomes PDF
Fung, MM, F Rohwer, KL McGuire (2003) IL-2 activation of a PI3K-dependent STAT3 serine phosphorylation pathway in primary human T-cells. Cellular Signaling. 15. 625-636. PDF
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. PDF
Rohwer, F, R Edwards (2002) The Phage Proteomic Tree: A genome-based taxonomy system for phage. Journal of Bacteriology. 184 (16). 4529-4535. PDF
Rohwer, F, V Seguritan, F Azam, and N Knowlton. (2002) Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 243. 1-10. PDF
Hagstrom, A, T Pommier, F Rohwer, K Simu, D Svensson, UL Zweifel (2002) Bio-informatics reveal surprisingly low species richness in marine bacterioplankton. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67 (7). 3628-3633. PDF
Seguritan, V, F Rohwer (2001) FastGroup: A program to dereplicate libraries of 16S rDNA sequences. BMC Bioinformatics. 2 (9). http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/biology/ PDF
Rohwer, F, Seguritan, V, Choi, DH, Segall, A, Azam, F (2001) Production of shotgun libraries using random amplification. BioTechniques. 31 (1). 1-7. PDF
Rohwer, F, M Breitbart, J Java, F Azam, N Knowlton (2001) Microbial diversity of scleractinian corals. Coral Reefs. 20 (1). 85-95. PDF
Rohwer, F, AM Segall, G Steward, V Seguritan, M Breitbart, F Wolven, F Azam (2000) The complete genomic sequence of the marine phage Roseophage SIO1 shares homology with non-marine phages. Limnology and Oceanography. 45 (2). 408-418. PDF
Rohwer, F, F Azam (2000) Direct detection of DNA damage in prokaryotes using TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66 (3).1001-1006. PDF
Iacobelli, M, Rohwer, F, P Shanahan, JA Quiroz, KL McGuire (1999) IL-2-mediated cell cycle progression and inhibition of apoptosis does not require NF-kappa B or activating protein-1 activation in primary human T cells. Journal of Immunology. 162 (6). 3308-3014. PDF
McGuire, KL, F Rohwer, H Sabzevari, AN Theofilopoulous, MM Fung, K Bower (1999) Signal transduction, cell cycle progression, and gene expression in primary human T cells stimulated with interleukin 2. Research in Developmental Immunology. 1. 149-163.
Rohwer, F, S Todd, K McGuire (1996) The effect of IL-2 treatment on transcriptional attenuation in proto-oncogenes pim-1 and c-myb in human thymic blast cells. Journal of Immunology. 157 (2). 643-649. PDF
Rohwer, F, W MacMaster, W Haseltine, C Tsoukas, K McGuire. (1994) Characterization of an IL-2 dependent Human T Cell Leukemia Virus type I (HTLV-I) infected cell line: a system for studying HTLV-I mediated transformation. International Journal of Oncology. 5. 1-7.
Popular Press
Kuntz, N, M Breitbart, F Rohwer (2006) The Art of Phage. Microbe. 1(9). 435. PDF
Edwards, R, M Breitbart, F Rohwer (2004) Hidden messages within the genetic code. ASM News. 70 (7). 305