Brittany N. Zepernick

The study investigates the metabolic pathways of a toxic Planktothrix rubescens bloom using metagenomics and metabolomics, revealing the role of the ornithine-arginine cycle in its ecological success.

This study examines how colony formation in Microcystis affects viral infection strategies, finding that colonies favor lysogeny while single cells experience more lytic infection.

The paper uses metatranscriptomics to show that declining ice cover in Lake Erie reduces viral community activity and richness in winter surface waters.

The paper investigates how declining ice cover in Lake Erie affects diatom blooms by analyzing physiochemical and metatranscriptomic data, finding light limitation and adaptive gene expression changes.