About

Jed Alan Fuhrman

McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology and Professor of Biology

Contact Information
E-mail: fuhrman@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-5757
Office: ACB 308

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Education
SB Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1/1977
Ph.D. Oceanography, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1/1981
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Professor Of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 01/01/1992-  
Department Chair, Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 01/01/1994-01/01/1996  
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 01/01/1988-01/01/1992  
Associate Professor of Oceanography, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 01/01/1986-01/01/1988  
Assistant Professor of Oceanography, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 01/01/1981-01/01/1986  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Fuhrman researches the roles of microorganisms in natural marine ecosystems and the cycling of matter in the ocean, from the microscopic scale to the global scale. He also measures human pathogenic viruses at recreational beaches as a potential health hazard, and works on innovative ways to make such measurements relatively easy and inexpensive. Professor Fuhrman is currently exploring global marine microbial biodiversity with molecular biological techniques, which has enabled him to identify major new taxonomic groups and make better estimates of the total diversity found in these communities and its role in ecosystem function. His team has discovered a major new group of Archaea inhabiting the deep sea and other novel microbial groups in coral reefs and other ocean habitats. Recently, his lab has determined patterns in diversity that help show how the microorganisms interact as a complex network. In the public health realm, his team has helped to link cases of illness to exposure to microbial and viral pathogens in the coastal zone.
 

Research Specialties
Marine Microbial Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Microbial Diversity, Human Pathogens in Marine Environments
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies,http://wrigley.usc.edu
 

Publications

Book Chapter
Fuhrman, J. A., Hagström, Å. (2008). Bacterial and archaeal community structure and its patterns. pp. 45-90. Microbial Ecology of the Oceans, Wiley.
 

Journal Article
Fuhrman, J. A., Schwalbach, M. S., Stingl, U. (2008). Proteorhodopsins: an array of physiological roles?. Nature Rev Microbiol. Vol. 6, pp. 488-494.
Fuhrman, J. A., Steele, J. A. (2008). Community structure of marine bacterioplankton: patterns, networks, and relationships to function. Aquat Microb Ecol.. Vol. 53, pp. 69-81.
Fuhrman, J. A., Steele, J. A., Hewson, I., Schwalbach, M. S., Brown, M. V., Green, J. L., Brown, J. H. (2008). A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 105 (22), pp. 7774-7778.
Fuhrman, J. A., Hewson, I., Schwalbach, M., Steele, J., Brown, M. V., Naeem, S. (2006). Annually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Vol. 103, pp. 13104-13109.
Martiny, H., Brendan, J., Brown, J. H., Colwell, R., Fuhrman, J. A., Green, J., Horner-Devine, M. C., Kane, M., B, J. (2006). Microbial biogeography: Putting microorganisms on the map. Nature Reviews Microbiology/Nature Publishing Group. Vol. 4, pp. 102-112.
Ruan, Q., Dutta, D., Schwalbach, M., Steele, J., Fuhrman, J. A., Sun, F. (2006). Local Similarity Analysis Reveals Unique Associations Among Marine Bacterioplankton Species and Environmental Factors. Bioinformatics. Vol. 20, pp. 2532-2538. PMID: 16882654.
Hewson, I., Fuhrman, J. A. (2006). Improved strategy for comparing community fingerprints. Microbial Ecology. Vol. 51, pp. 147-153.
Hewson, I., Capone, D. G., Steele, J., Fuhrman, J. A. (2006). Influence of Amazon and Orinoco offshore surface water plumes on oligotrophic bacterioplankton diversity in the West Tropical Atlantic. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. Vol. 43, pp. 11-22.
Brown, M. V., Schwalbach, M., Hewson, I., Fuhrman, J. A. (2005). Coupling 16S-ITS rDNA clone libraries and ARISA to show marine microbial diversity; development and application to a time series. Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 7, pp. 1466-1479.
Fuhrman, J. A., Schwalbach, M., Brown, M. V. (2005). Impact of light on marine bacterioplankton community structure. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. Vol. 39, pp. 235-245.
Brown, M. V., Fuhrman, J. A. (2005). Marine bacterial microdiversity as revealed by internal transcribed spacer analysis. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. pp. p.41.
 

Other
Fuhrman, J. A. Fuhrman JA. Marine viruses and their biogeochemical and ecological effects. Nature. [ 1999 ] Jun 10;399(6736):541-8.
 

Honors and Awards
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2006-  
ISI Highly Cited Researcher, 2002-  
Endowed Chair, McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology, 9/1/1995-8/31/2008  
Hutchinson Medal, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2006  
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2004  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editorial Board Member, The ISME Journal, 2007-  
Editorial Board Member, Environmental Microbiology, 2005-  
Subject Editor, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 1995-  
Contributing Editor, Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 1997  
 
 
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