Andreas Teske

About

Dr. Andreas Teske is a principal investigator at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He is an expert on molecular microbial systematics and community structure in marine environments. His research group extensively studies microbial community structure in hydrocarbon seep microbial ecosystems in the Gulf of California and the Gulf of Mexico, utilizing techniques such as functional genes, rRNA genes, pyrosequencing, and FISH. Dr. Teske began working on the microbial impact of the Macondo oil spill when the first research cruise visited the wellhead area in May 2010, contributing to understanding microbial dynamics and biodegradation processes related to hydrocarbon contamination in marine ecosystems.

Research topics

• Biology
• Genetics
• Evolutionary biology
• Computer Science
• Computational biology
• Ecology
• Paleontology
• Data science
• Library science
• Astronomy

Selected publications

• A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

  Nature Biotechnology · 2020 · 963 citations

  The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated microbiomes. Here we applied this approach to >10,000 metagenomes collected from diverse habitats covering all of Earth's continents and oceans, including metagenomes from human and animal hosts, engineered environments, and natural and agricultural soils, to capture extant microbial, metabolic and functional potential. This compre…

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• Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

  Nature · 2023 · 237 citations

  . Here we analyse distinct phylogenetic marker datasets of an expanded genomic sampling of Asgard archaea and evaluate competing evolutionary scenarios using state-of-the-art phylogenomic approaches. We find that eukaryotes are placed, with high confidence, as a well-nested clade within Asgard archaea and as a sister lineage to Hodarchaeales, a newly proposed order within Heimdallarchaeia. Using sophisticated gene tree and species tree reconciliation approaches, we show that analogous to the evo…

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• Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups

  The ISME Journal · 2021 · 178 citations

  Deltaproteobacteria, now proposed to be the phyla Desulfobacterota, Myxococcota, and SAR324, are ubiquitous in marine environments and play essential roles in global carbon, sulfur, and nutrient cycling. Despite their importance, our understanding of these bacteria is biased towards cultured organisms. Here we address this gap by compiling a genomic catalog of 1 792 genomes, including 402 newly reconstructed and characterized metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from coastal and deep-sea sediment…

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• Publisher Correction: A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

  Nature Biotechnology · 2020 · 26 citations

  An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

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• Author Correction: A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

  Nature Biotechnology · 2021 · 19 citations

  A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00898-4.

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Recent grants

• MO: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A MICROBIAL OBSERVATORY EXAMINING MICROBIAL ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY, ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITY AT SEAFLOOR BRINE SEEPS

  NSF · $400k · 2008–2014

• Collaborative Research: Drilling Site Survey-Life in Subseafloor Sediments of the South Pacific Gyre

  NSF · $110k · 2005–2007

• RAPID proposal: Site characterization cruise to document the active and extensive subsurface biosphere in the Guaymas Basin

  NSF · $58k · 2014–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Virginia P. Edgcomb

  177 shared

• Ivano W. Aiello

  Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

  171 shared

• Guangchao Zhuang

  Ocean University of China

  170 shared

• Verena B. Heuer

  University of Bremen

  160 shared

• Daniel Lizarralde

  158 shared

• Yuki Morono

  155 shared

• Tobias W. Höfig

  Forschungszentrum Jülich

  152 shared

• Swanne Gontharet

  150 shared

Labs

• GULF ECOGIGPI

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