E. Virginia Armbrust

E. Virginia Armbrust is a biological oceanographer, professor, and current director of the University of Washington School of Oceanography.^[1] She is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Science,^[2] an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,^[3] and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.^[4]

Education

Armbrust obtained a bachelor's degree in human biology at Stanford University in 1980. She then proceeded to obtain a PhD in biological oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1990.^[5]

Research career

Following her doctorate, Armbrust began working as a postdoctoral researcher. She then became faculty at the University of Washington in 1996 and was elected director of the School of Oceanography in 2011.^[5]

Armbrust's current research focuses on phytoplankton and their interactions with bacteria. She is an investigator of the Simons Foundation in microbial oceanography.^[6]

She led a project which assembled the genome for a type of marine Euryarchaeota that could not be cultured in the lab. This involved sequencing the genomes of a mixtures of microorganisms from seawater, and assembling related sequence fragments into a complete genome for the marine Euryarchaeota specifically.^[7][8]

Selected publications

• Amin, S.A., L.R. Hmelo, H.M. van Tol, B.P. Durham, L.T. Carlson, K.R. Heal, R.L. Morales, C.T. Berthiaume, M.S. Parker, B. Djunaedi, A.E. Ingalls, M.R. Parsek, M.A. Moran, and E.V. Armbrust. Interaction and signaling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria. Nature, 522:98-101 (2015)^[9]
• Hennon, G.M.M., J. Ashworth, R.D. Groussman, C. Berthiaume, R.L. Morales, N.S. Baliga, M.V. Orellana, and E.V. Armbrust. Diatom acclimation to elevated CO₂ via cAMP signaling and coordinated gene expression. Nature Climate Change, 5:761-765 (2015)^[10]

Awards

• Rachel Carson Award Lecture, American Geophysical Union (2016)^[11]

References

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3. "AAAS Fellow". Retrieved 2017-03-08.
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5. Webmaster (2011-03-11). "Virginia Armbrust Named Director of UW School of Oceanography | Ocean Leadership". Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
6. "Microbial Oceanography". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
7. Bhanoo, Sindya N. (2012-02-06). "Plucking a Strand of Genetic Insight From the Sea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
8. Iverson, Vaughn; Morris, Robert M.; Frazar, Christian D.; Berthiaume, Chris T.; Morales, Rhonda L.; Armbrust, E. Virginia (2012-02-03). "Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota". Science. 335 (6068): 587–590. Bibcode:2012Sci...335..587I. doi:10.1126/science.1212665. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22301318. S2CID 31381073.
9. Amin, S. A.; Hmelo, L. R.; van Tol, H. M.; Durham, B. P.; Carlson, L. T.; Heal, K. R.; Morales, R. L.; Berthiaume, C. T.; Parker, M. S. (2015-06-04). "Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria". Nature. 522 (7554): 98–101. Bibcode:2015Natur.522...98A. doi:10.1038/nature14488. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26017307. S2CID 4462055.
10. Hennon, Gwenn M. M.; Ashworth, Justin; Groussman, Ryan D.; Berthiaume, Chris; Morales, Rhonda L.; Baliga, Nitin S.; Orellana, Mónica V.; Armbrust, E. V. (2015-08-01). "Diatom acclimation to elevated CO2 via cAMP signalling and coordinated gene expression". Nature Climate Change. 5 (8): 761–765. Bibcode:2015NatCC...5..761H. doi:10.1038/nclimate2683. ISSN 1758-678X.
11. "Rachel Carson Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-05-08.