Maureen ColemanAssociate Professor

Research Focus:

Microbial evolution and ecology, biogeochemistry

Email:

mlcoleman@uchicago.edu

Phone:

(773) 702-8352

Office:

Hinds 243

Selected Publications

• Paver SF, Newton RJ, Coleman ML. 2020. Microbial communities of the Laurentian Great Lakes reflect connectivity and local biogeochemistry. Environ Microbiol 22:433-446. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14862
• Zimmerman AE, Howard-Varona C, Needham DM, John S, Worden AZ, Sullivan MB, Waldbauer JR, Coleman ML. 2020. Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology 18(1):21-34. doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0270-x
• Waldbauer JR*, Coleman ML*, Rizzo AD, Campbell KL, Lotus JM, and Zhang LC. 2019. Nitrogen sourcing during viral infection of marine cyanobacteria. PNAS 116:15590-15595.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901856116 (* contributed equally; corresponding authors)
• Hentchel KL, Reyes Ruiz LM, Curtis PD, Fiebig A*, Coleman ML*, Crosson S*. 2019. Genome-scale fitness profile of Caulobacter crescentus grown in natural freshwater. ISME Journal 13:523-536. doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0295-6. (*corresponding authors)
• Paver SF, Muratore D, Newton RJ, Coleman ML. 2018. Re-evaluating the salty divide: phylogenetic specificity of transitions between marine and freshwater systems. mSystems 3:e00232-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00232-18.