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Barott, Katie

Postdoctoral Scholar

Degrees:

• B.S., Michigan State University
• B.S., Michigan State University
• Ph.D., San Diego State University; University of California San Diego

Research Interests:

• Coral physiology and pH regulation
• Interactions between corals, bethic algae, and microbes
• Response of reef organisms to human impacts, particularly ocean acidification
• Metagenomics

Honors and Awards:

• NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012, declined)
• NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2012-2014)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2010)
• Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship (2011)
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (2005)
• National Merit Scholarship (2002)

Rohwer F and K Barott. (2012) Viral information. Biology and Philosophy. In press.

Barott K and F Rohwer. (2012) Unseen players shape benthic competition on coral reefs. Trends in Microbiology 20(12): 621-628. (Cover photo)

Barott K, G Williams, M Vermeij, J Harris, J Smith, F Rohwer and S Sandin. (2012) Natural history of coral-algae competition across a gradient of human activity in the Line Islands. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 460: 1-12. (Feature Article)

Barott K, B Rodriquez-Brito, M Youle, K Marhaver, M Vermeij, J Smith, and F Rohwer. (2012) Microbial to reef scale interactions between the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis and benthic algae. Proc. Royal Soc. B. 279(1733): 1655-1664.

Janouškovec J, A Horák, K Barott, F Rohwer, and P Keeling. (2012) Environmental distribution of coral-associated relatives of apicomplexan parasites. ISME Journal, pp. 1-4. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.129.

Kelly L, K Barott, E Dinsdale, A Friedlander, B Nosrat, D Obura, E Sala, S Sandin, J Smith, M Vermeij, G Williams, D Willner, and F Rohwer. (2012) Black reefs: iron-induced phase shifts on coral reefs. ISME Journal 6: 638-649.

McDole T, J Nulton, K Barott, B Felts, C Hand, M Hatay, H Lee, M Nadon, B Nosrat, P Salamon, B Bailey, S Sandin, B Vargas-Angel, M Youle, B Zgliczynski, R Brainard, F Rohwer. (2012) Assessing coral reefs on a Pacific-wide scale using the microbialization score. PLoS One. 7(9): e43233.

Janouškovec J, A Horák, K Barott, F Rohwer, and P Keeling. (2012) Global analysis of plastid diversity reveals new apicomplexan-related lineages associated with coral reefs. Current Biology 22(13): R518-519.

Cassman, N, A Prieto Davo, K Walsh, G Silva, F Angly, S Akhter, K Barott, J Busch, T McDole, J Haggerty, D Willner, G Alarcón, O Ulloa, E DeLong, B Dulith, F Rohwer, E Dinsdale. (2012) Oxygen minimum zones harbor novel viral communities with low diversity. Environmental Microbiology 14(11): 3043-3065.

Barott K, B Rodriguez-Brito, J Janouškovec, K Marhaver, J Smith, P Keeling, and F Rohwer. (2011) Microbial diversity associated with four functional groups of benthic reef algae and the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis. Environmental Microbiology 13(5): 1192-1204.

Barott K, J Caselle, E Dinsdale, A Friedlander, J Maragos, D Obura, F Rohwer, S Sandin, J Smith, and B Zgliczynski. (2010) The lagoon at Caroline/Millennium Atoll, Republic of Kiribati: Natural history of a nearly pristine ecosystem. PLoS ONE 5(6): e10950.

Vermeij M, K Barott, Johnson, A and K Marhaver. (2010) Release of eggs from tentacles in a Caribbean coral. Coral Reefs 29(2): 411.

Barott K., J, Smith, E. Dinsdale, M. Hatay, S. Sandin, and F. Rohwer. (2009) Hyperspectral and physiological analyses of coral-algal interactions. PLoS ONE 4(11): e8043.

Angly F, D Willner, A Prieto-Davó, R Edwards, R Schmieder, R Vega Thurber, D Antonopoulos, K Barott, et al. (2009) The GAAS metagenomic tool and its estimations of viral and microbial average genome size in four major biomes. PLoS Computational Biology 5(12): e1000593.

Vega Thurber R., K Barott, D Hall, H Liu, B Rodriguez-Brito, C Desnues, R Edwards, M Haynes, F Angly, L Wegley, and F Rohwer. (2008) Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of Herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105(47): 18413-18418.