Dan Buckley

About

Dan Buckley is a Professor at the School of Integrative Plant Sciences within the Department of Microbiology at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Michigan State University, obtained in 2000, and a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Rochester, earned in 1994. His research focuses on microbial ecology and genomics of soil, exploring the microbial communities and their functions within soil environments. As a faculty member, he is involved in leading research efforts in microbial ecology, contributing to the understanding of soil microbiomes and their roles in ecological processes.

Research topics

• Biology
• Computer Science
• Genetics
• Ecology
• Computational biology
• Data Mining
• Evolutionary biology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Soil science

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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• Calcium promotes persistent soil organic matter by altering microbial transformation of plant litter

  Nature Communications · 2023-10-19 · 205 citations

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  Abstract Calcium (Ca) can contribute to soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence by mediating physico-chemical interactions between organic compounds and minerals. Yet, Ca is also crucial for microbial adhesion, potentially affecting colonization of plant and mineral surfaces. The importance of Ca as a mediator of microbe-mineral-organic matter interactions and resulting SOC transformation has been largely overlooked. We incubated 44 Ca labeled soils with 13 C 15 N labeled leaf litter to study how…

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• Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2021 · 185 citations

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• Prevalent root-derived phenolics drive shifts in microbial community composition and prime decomposition in forest soil

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2020 · 122 citations

  Phenolic compounds perform various functions in soil ranging from microbial substrate to toxin and form the basis of several plant-mediated processes. The aim of this study was to investigate how phenolics commonly exuded by tree roots influence soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition and interact with other labile forms of carbon (C) abundant in root exudates. Therefore, we performed a 38-day incubation experiment and assessed whether phenolic compounds (benzoic acid, caffeic acid and catechin)…

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• Evidence for phylogenetically and catabolically diverse active diazotrophs in deep-sea sediment

  The ISME Journal · 2020 · 90 citations

  N-DNA stable isotope probing and a novel pipeline for nifH sequence analysis. Together, these approaches detect an unexpectedly diverse assemblage of active diazotrophs, including members of the Acidobacteria, Firmicutes, Nitrospirae, Gammaproteobacteria, and Deltaproteobacteria. Deltaproteobacteria, predominately members of the Desulfobacterales and Desulfuromonadales, are the most abundant diazotrophs detected, and display the most microdiversity of associated nifH sequences. Some of the detec…

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Recent grants

• MSB: Single Cell Ecology - Developing a new paradigm for the Microbial Diversity course of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

  NSF · $205k · 2009–2013

• Resolving systematic uncertainty in Streptomyces by interpreting their evolution and biogeography through the prism of horizontal gene exchange

  NSF · $676k · 2011–2016

• CAREER: Targeted Environmental Genomics: Stable Isotope Probing of Non-cultivated Diazotrophs in Soil

  NSF · $686k · 2005–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Roland C. Wilhelm

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  54 shared

• Charles Pepe‐Ranney

  Cornell University

  38 shared

• Mary Lipton

  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

  21 shared

• Samuel E. Barnett

  Michigan State University

  21 shared

• Pamela Weisenhorn

  Argonne National Laboratory

  21 shared

• Johannes Lehmann

  20 shared

• Nicholas D. Youngblut

  19 shared

• Chantal Koechli

  Cornell University

  16 shared

Labs

• Buckley LabPI

Education

• PhD/Microbiology, Microbiology

  Michigan State University

  2000

• BS/Microbiology, Microbiology

  University of Rochester

  1994

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