UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor Web Pages: Moran Lab Website Education Ph.D. 1987, University of Georgia, Athens, GA M.S. 1982, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY B.S. 1977, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Research Research Areas: Microbial Ecology Research Interests: Bacterial roles in the marine carbon and sulfur cycles; ecological genomics, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics in coastal marine environments; diversity and structure of estuarine and coastal ocean bacterial communities; ecology and physiology of marine Roseobacter bacteria. Selected Publications Nowinski, B. and M. A. Moran. 2021. Niche dimensions of a marine bacterium are identified using invasion studies in coastal seawater. Nature Microbiology 6: 524–532. DOI Ferrer-González, F. X., B. Widner, N. R. Holderman, J. Glushka, A. S. Edison, E. B. Kujawinski, and M. A. Moran. 2020. Resource partitioning of phytoplankton metabolites that support bacterial heterotrophy. ISME Journal 15:762-773. DOI Fu, H., M. Uchimiya, J. Gore, and M. A. Moran. 2020. Ecological drivers of bacterial community assembly in synthetic phycospheres. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117:3656-3662. DOI Moran, M. A. and B. P. Durham. 2019. Sulfur metabolites in the pelagic ocean. Nature Reviews Microbiology 17: 665-678. DOI Coles V.J, Stukel M.R, Brooks M.T, Burd A., Crump B.C, Moran M.A, Paul J.H, Satinsky B.M, Yager P.L, Zielinski B.L et al.. 2017. Ocean biogeochemistry modeled with emergent trait-based genomics. Science. 358(6367):1149-1154. DOI Landa M, Burns AS, Roth SJ, Moran M.A. 2017. Bacterial transcriptome remodeling during sequential co-culture with a marine dinoflagellate and diatom. The ISME Journal. DOI Moran M.A, Kujawinski EB, Stubbins A, Fatland R, Aluwihare LI, Buchan A, Crump BC, Dorrestein PC, Dyhrman ST, Hess NJ et al.. 2016. Deciphering ocean carbon in a changing world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(12):3143-3151. DOI Moran M.A. 2015. The Global Ocean Microbiome. Science. 350 DOI Luo H, Moran MA. 2015. How do divergent ecological strategies emerge among marine bacterioplankton lineages? Trends in Microbiology. 23(9):577-584. DOI Durham BP, Sharma S, Luo H, Smith CB, Amin S, Bender SJ, Dearth SP, Van Mooy BAS, Campagna S, Kukawinski EB et al. 2015. Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112: 453–457. DOI Gifford SM, Sharma S, Moran MA. 2014. Linking activity and function to ecosystem dynamics in a coastal bacterioplankton community. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. DOI Satinsky B.M, Crump B.C, Smith C.B, Sharma S., Zielinski B.L, Doherty M., Meng J., Sun S., Medeiros P.M, Paul J.H et al.. 2014. Microspatial gene expression patterns in the Amazon River Plume. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(30):11085–11090. DOI Moran MA, Satinsky B, Gifford SM, Luo H, Rivers A, Chan L-K, Meng J, Durham BP, Shen C, Varaljay VA et al.. 2013. Sizing up metatranscriptomics. The ISME Journal. 7(2):237-243. DOI Newton RJ, Griffin LE, Bowles KM, Meile C, Gifford S, Givens CE, Howard EC, King E, Oakley CA, Reisch CR et al.. 2010. Genome characteristics of a generalist marine bacterial lineage. The ISME Journal. 4:784–798. DOI Courses Regularly Taught MARS 3450
