Peter Girguis

I’m a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

My research focuses on the deep sea and the relationship that animals and microbes have to one another, but also to their environment. We do a lot of work developing new tools to make measurements that we couldn’t make before. I do so with an eye towards democratising science, with a hope that all have an opportunity to study the deep ocean.

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Publications

Walter, S. R. S., Jaekel, U., Osterholz, H., et al. (2018). Microbial decomposition of marine dissolved organic matter in cool oceanic crust. Nature Geoscience, 11, 334–339.
Marlow, J. J., Kumar, A., Enalls, B. C., et al. (2018). Harnessing a methane‐fueled, sediment‐free mixed microbial community for utilization of distributed sources of natural gas. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 115(6), 1450–1464.
Kane, R., Raineault, N., Embley, R. W., et al. (2016). E/V Nautilus Mapping and ROV Dives Reveal Hundreds of Vents along the West Coast of the United States. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2016, OS41A–1943.
Wankel, S. D., Huang, Y., Gupta, M., et al. (2013). Characterizing the Distribution of Methane Sources and Cycling in the Deep Sea via in Situ Stable Isotope Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(3), 1478–1486.
Rabaey, K., Girguis, P., & Nielsen, L. K. (2011). Metabolic and practical considerations on microbial electrosynthesis. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 22(3), 371–377.
Reimers, C. E., Stecher III, H. A., Westall, J. C., et al. (2007). Substrate Degradation Kinetics, Microbial Diversity, and Current Efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells Supplied with Marine Plankton. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(21), 7029–7040.

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