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Mary Ann Moran

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UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor

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  • Ph.D. 1987, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  • M.S. 1982, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • B.S. 1977, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
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Moran lab research focuses on how marine bacteria process and transform organic carbon and sulfur, and how interactions between bacteria and phytoplankton affect these transformations, including the formation of climate-relevant gases. Our research leverages tools from molecular microbial ecology and ecological genomics, in both laboratory model systems and natural marine environments.

Schroer, W. F., H. E. Kepner, M. Uchimiya, C. Mejia, L. T. Rodriguez, C. R. Reisch, and M. A. Moran. 2023. Function and importance of marine bacterial transporters of plankton exometabolites. ISME Communications 3:37. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00244-6

Schreier, J., C. B. Smith, T. R. Ioerger, and M. A. Moran. 2023. A mutant fitness assay identifies bacterial interactions in a model ocean hot-spot. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 2023. 120 (12) e2217200120. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2217200120

Nowinski, B., X. Feng, C. M. Preston, J. M. Birch, H. Luo, W. B. Whitman., and M. A. Moran. Ecological divergence of syntopic marine bacterial species is shaped by gene content and expression. 2023. The ISME Journal https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01390-4

Ferrer-González, F. X., M. Hamilton, C. B. Smith, J. E. Schreier, M. Olofsson, and M. A. Moran. 2023. Bacterial transcriptional response to labile exometabolites from photosynthetic picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda. ISME Communications 3: 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00212-0.

Moran, M. A., E. B. Kujawinski, W. F. Schroer, S. A. Amin, N. R. Bates, E. M. Bertrand, R. Braakman, C. T. Brown, M. W. Covert, S. C. Doney, S. T. Dyhrman, A. S. Edison, A. M. Eren, N. M. Levine, L. Li, A. C. Ross, M. A. Saito, A. E. Santoro, D. Segré, A. Shade, M. B. Sullivan, and A. Vardi. 2022. Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle. Nature Microbiology 7:508-523. https://rdcu.be/cKnTP

Moran, M. A., F. X. Ferrer-González, H. Fu, B. Nowinski, M. Olofsson, M. A. Powers, J. E. Schreier, W. F. Schroer, C. B. Smith, and M. Uchimiya. 2022. The ocean’s labile DOC supply chain. Limnology and Oceanography 67:1007-1021. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12053

Olofsson, M., F. X. Ferrer-González, M. Uchimiya, J. E. Schreier, N. R. Holderman, C. B. Smith, A. S. Edison, and M. A. Moran. 2022. Growth-stage related shifts in diatom endometabolome composition set the stage for bacterial heterotrophy. ISME Communications 2:28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00116-5

Uchimiya, M., W. Schroer, M. Olofsson, A. S. Edison, and M. A. Moran. 2022. Diel investments in metabolite production and consumption in a model microbial system. The ISME Journal 16z;1306-1317. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01172-w

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

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 worldProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(12):3143-3151. DOI  

Moran M.A.  2015.  The Global Ocean Microbiome. Science. 350 DOI 

 

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Mary Ann Moran, Patricia Medeiros and Aron Stubbins have an article appearing today in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, addressing both the complexities and innovations in the field of dissolved organic material in…

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