Eric Allen
Assistant Professor of Biology / Marine Biology, UCSD
Division of Biological Sciences
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (MBRD)

e-mail: eallen@ucsd.edu
  

    

      "Monounsaturated but not polyunsaturated fatty acids are required for growth of the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum SS9 at high pressure and low temperature" (1999). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65, 1710-1720.

     "FabF is required for piezoregulation of cis-vaccenic acid levels and piezophilic growth of the deep-sea bacterium, Photobacterium profundum strain SS9" (2000). J. Bacteriol. 182, 1264-1271.

     "Piezophiles: microbial adaptation to the deep-sea environment" (2002). In 'Extremophiles', UNESCO Encyclopedia for Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK.

     "Structure and regulation of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase genes from the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum strain SS9" (2002). Microbiology 148, 1903-1914.

     "The genome of a motile marine Synechococcus" (2003). Nature 424, 1037-1042.

     "Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment" (2004). Nature 428, 37-43.

     "Community genomics in microbial ecology and evolution" (2005). Nature Rev. Microbiol. 3, 489-498.

     "Genome-directed isolation of the key nitrogen fixer, Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum sp. nov., from an acidophilic microbial community." (2005). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71, 6319-6324.

     "The search for a molecular-level understanding of the processes that underpin the Earth's biogeochemical cycles" (2005). Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 59, 1-7.

     "Genome dynamics in a natural archaeal population" (2006). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. in press

Dr. Eric Allen received his B.S. from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.