E. Virginia Armbrust Explained

E. Virginia Armbrust is a biological oceanographer, professor, and current director of the University of Washington School of Oceanography.^[1] She is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Science,^[2] an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,^[3] and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.^[4]

Education

Armbrust obtained a bachelor's degree in human biology at Stanford University in 1980. She then proceeded to obtain a PhD in biological oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1990.

Research career

Following her doctorate, Armbrust began working as a postdoctoral researcher. She then became faculty at the University of Washington in 1996 and was elected director of the School of Oceanography in 2011.^[5]

Armbrust's current research focuses on phytoplankton and their interactions with bacteria. She is an investigator of the Simons Foundation in microbial oceanography.^[6]

She led a project which assembled the genome for a type of marine Euryarchaeota that could not be cultured in the lab. This involved sequencing the genomes of a mixtures of microorganisms from seawater, and assembling related sequence fragments into a complete genome for the marine Euryarchaeota specifically.^{[7] [8]}

Selected publications

• Amin, S.A., L.R. Hmelo, H.M. van Tol, B.P. Durham, L.T. Carlson, K.R. Heal, R.L. Morales, C.T. Berthiaume, M.S. Parker, B. Djunaedi, A.E. Ingalls, M.R. Parsek, M.A. Moran, and E.V. Armbrust. Interaction and signaling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria. Nature, 522:98-101 (2015)^[9]
• Hennon, G.M.M., J. Ashworth, R.D. Groussman, C. Berthiaume, R.L. Morales, N.S. Baliga, M.V. Orellana, and E.V. Armbrust. Diatom acclimation to elevated CO₂ via cAMP signaling and coordinated gene expression. Nature Climate Change, 5:761-765 (2015)^[10]

Awards

• Rachel Carson Award Lecture, American Geophysical Union (2016)^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The School of Oceanography, University of Washington. www.ocean.washington.edu. 2017-03-08.
2. News: Armbrust select for State Academy of Sciences. 2017-03-08.
3. News: AAAS Fellow. 2017-03-08.
4. News: E. Virginia Armbrust. 2017-03-08. en-gb. https://web.archive.org/web/20170309063535/https://www.asm.org/index.php/aam-fellows/aam-fellows/fellows-elected-in-2011/item/4955-e-virginia-armbrust. 2017-03-09. dead.
5. Web site: Virginia Armbrust Named Director of UW School of Oceanography Ocean Leadership. Webmaster. 2011-03-11. Consortium for Ocean Leadership. en-US. 2019-05-10.
6. Web site: Microbial Oceanography. Simons Foundation. en-US. 2019-05-10.
7. News: Bhanoo. Sindya N.. Plucking a Strand of Genetic Insight From the Sea. 2012-02-06. The New York Times. 2020-03-22. en-US. 0362-4331.
8. Iverson. Vaughn. Morris. Robert M.. Frazar. Christian D.. Berthiaume. Chris T.. Morales. Rhonda L.. Armbrust. E. Virginia. 2012-02-03. Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota. Science. en. 335. 6068. 587–590. 10.1126/science.1212665. 0036-8075. 22301318. 2012Sci...335..587I. 31381073 .
9. Amin. S. A.. Hmelo. L. R.. van Tol. H. M.. Durham. B. P.. Carlson. L. T.. Heal. K. R.. Morales. R. L.. Berthiaume. C. T.. Parker. M. S.. 2015-06-04. Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria. Nature. en. 522. 7554. 98–101. 10.1038/nature14488. 26017307. 2015Natur.522...98A. 4462055 . 0028-0836.
10. Hennon. Gwenn M. M.. Ashworth. Justin. Groussman. Ryan D.. Berthiaume. Chris. Morales. Rhonda L.. Baliga. Nitin S.. Orellana. Mónica V.. Armbrust. E. V.. 2015-08-01. Diatom acclimation to elevated CO2 via cAMP signalling and coordinated gene expression. Nature Climate Change. en. 5. 8. 761–765. 10.1038/nclimate2683. 2015NatCC...5..761H. 1758-678X.
11. Web site: Rachel Carson Lecture AGU. 2021-05-08. www.agu.org.