Don A. Cowan

Research interests

Publications

• Microbiome Interconnectedness throughout Environments with Major Consequences for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet

  Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1128/mmbr.00212-22

• Standardized multi-omics of Earth’s microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity

  Nature Microbiology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01266-x

• Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity

  Science · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd7926

• Fungal Planet description sheets: 1284–1382

  Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.3767/persoonia.2021.47.06

• Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17688-2

• The Healthy Human Blood Microbiome: Fact or Fiction?

  Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00148

• A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils

  Microbiome · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0424-5

• Xerotolerant bacteria: surviving through a dry spell

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2017.16

• Microbial ecology of hot desert edaphic systems

  FEMS Microbiology Reviews · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuu011

• A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond

  Antarctic Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102014000674

• Some like it cold: understanding the survival strategies of psychrophiles

  EMBO Reports · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/embr.201338170

• Enhancing the functional properties of thermophilic enzymes by chemical modification and immobilization

  Enzyme and Microbial Technology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enzmictec.2011.06.023

• On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2281

• Molecular adaptations to psychrophily: the impact of ‘omic’ technologies

  Trends in Microbiology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2010.05.002

• Thermophilic ethanologenesis: future prospects for second-generation bioethanol production

  Trends in biotechnology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2009.03.006

• Metagenomic gene discovery: past, present and future

  Trends in biotechnology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.04.001

• Review and re-analysis of domain-specific 16S primers

  Journal of Microbiological Methods · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2003.08.009

• The search for the ideal biocatalyst

  Nature Biotechnology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0102-37

• Effect of Turbulence on Limiting Current in Electrodialysis Cells

  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry · 1959 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50600a026

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