Tom J. Battin

This study investigates genomic adaptations of Polaromonas bacteria across cryospheric habitats, revealing evolutionary transitions driven by horizontal gene transfer and genomic plasticity.

This study shows that Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron's metabolic activity decreases with increasing polysaccharide molecular weight, affecting bacterial growth and community dynamics.

The paper investigates viral communities in proglacial streams, finding high host specificity and shared auxiliary metabolic genes among phages infecting microdiverse bacterial clades.

The paper benchmarks nucleic acid extraction protocols for microbial biofilms in glacier-fed streams, finding an adapted phenol-chloroform method yields better DNA quality and taxonomic profiles than commercial methods.