Paul Carini

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Paul Carini

Associate Professor, Soil / Subsurface Microbial Ecology
Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences
Associate Professor, Genetics - GIDP
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Member of the General Faculty
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Primary Department
Soil Water Enviro Sci-Res
Department Affiliations
Soil Water Enviro Sci-Res
BIO5 Institute
Contact
(520) 621-1646
paulcarini@arizona.edu

Work Summary

We investigate the myriad of ways microbes living in the wild (soil, water and air) affect Earth processes and our health.

Research Interest

The Carini lab is focused on understanding how microbes help make Earth habitable for humans. This view leads us to diverse questions in both terrestrial and aquatic environments with the goal of understanding how microbial communities transform important nutrients, remove pollutants, affect soil fertility and influence aquatic productivity. By studying the growth of microbial cultures, their genome sequences and their environmental distributions, we design experiments that help uncover new and unusual biogeochemical cycles and provide hypothesis-based explanations for long standing geochemical observations. Keywords: Microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, microbiome, soil microbiology, microbial oceanography

Publications

Santoro, A. E., Dupont, C. L., Richter, R. A., Craig, M. T., Carini, P., McIlvin, M. R., Yang, Y., Orsi, W. D., Moran, D. M., & Saito, M. A. (2015). Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": An ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 112(4), 1173-1178.
Brewer, T. E., Handley, K. M., Carini, P., Gilbert, J. A., & Fierer, N. (2017). Genome reduction in an abundant and ubiquitous soil bacterium 'Candidatus Udaeobacter copiosus'. NATURE MICROBIOLOGY, 2(2).
Carini, P., Campbell, E. O., Morre, J., Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S. A., Thrash, J. C., Bennett, S. E., Temperton, B., Begley, T., & Giovannoni, S. J. (2014). Discovery of a SAR11 growth requirement for thiamin's pyrimidine precursor and its distribution in the Sargasso Sea. ISME JOURNAL, 8(8), 1727-1738.
Grote, J., Thrash, J. C., Huggett, M. J., Landry, Z. C., Carini, P., Giovannoni, S. J., & Rappe, M. S. (2012). Streamlining and Core Genome Conservation among Highly Divergent Members of the SAR11 Clade. MBIO, 3(5).
Carini, P., Marsden, P. J., Leff, J., Morgan, E. E., Strickland, M. S., & Fierer, N. (2017). Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity. NATURE MICROBIOLOGY, 2(3).

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