Publications
Latest publications
Awards
Prof. Dr. Cara Magnabosco
Recipient of the 2019 Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Emerging Leader Award, USA
Key publications
external pageThe Prevotella copri complex comprises four distinct clades underrepresented in Westernized populationscall_made
A. Tett, K.D. Huang, F. Asnicar, H. Fehlner-Peach, E. Pasolli, N. Karcher, F. Armanini, P. Manghi, K. Bonham, M. Zolfo, F. De Filippis, C. Magnabosco, R. Bonneau, J. Lusingu, J. Amuasi, K. Reinhard, T. Rattei, F. Boulund, L. Engstrand, A. Zink, M. Carmen Collado, D.R. Littman, D. Eibach, D. Ercolini, O. Rota-Stabelli, C. Huttenhower, F. Maixner, and N. Segata. Cell Host & Microbe (2019)
external pageAn expanded ribosomal phylogeny of Cyanobacteria supports a deep placement of plastidscall_made
K.R. Moore, C. Magnabosco, L. Momper, D.A. Gold, T. Bosak, and G.P. Fournier. Frontiers in Microbiology. (2019)
external pageNew ecosystems in the deep subsurface follow the flow of water driven by geological activitycall_made
G. Borgonie, C. Magnabosco, A. García-Moyano, B. Linage-Alvarez, A.O. Ojo, L.B. Freese, C. Van Jaarsveld, C. Van Rooyen, O. Kuloyo, E.D. Cason, J. Vermeulen, C. Pienaar, E. Van Heerden, B. Sherwood Lollar, T. C. Onstott, and S.O.C. Mundle. Scientific Reports. (2019)
external pageThe biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurfacecall_made
C. Magnabosco, L.-H. Lin, H. Dong, M. Bomberg, W. Ghiorse, H. Stan-Lotter, K. Pedersen, T.L. Kieft, E. van Heerden, and T.C. Onstott. Nature Geoscience. (2018)
external pageSouth African crustal fracture fluids preserve paleometeoric water signatures for up to tens of millions of yearscall_made
A.H. Heard, O. Warr, G. Borgonie, B. Linage, O. Kuloyo, J.W. Fellowes, C. Magnabosco, M.C.Y. Lau, M. Erasmus, E.D. Cason, E. van Heerden, T.L. Kieft, J. Mabry, T.C. Onstott, B. Sherwood Lollar, and C.J. Ballentine. Chemical Geology. (2018)
external pageFluctuations in populations of subsurface methane oxidizers in coordination with changes in electron acceptor availabilitycall_made
C. Magnabosco, P.H.A. Timmers, M.C.Y. Lau, G. Borgonie, B. Linage-Alvarez, O. Kuloyo, R. Alleva, T.L. Kieft, G.F. Slater, E. van Heerden, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.C. Onstott. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. (2018)
external pageDating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene historiescall_made
C. Magnabosco, K.R. Moore, J.M. Wolfe, G.P. Fournier. Geobiology. (2018)
external pageThe relative abundances of resolved 12CH2D2 and 13CH3D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gasescall_made
E.D. Young, I.E. Kohl, B. Sherwood Lollar, G. Etiope, D. Rumble III, S. Li, M.A. Haghnegahdar, E.A. Schauble, K.A. McCain, D.I. Foustoukos, C. Sutclife, O. Warr, C.J. Ballentine, T.C. Onstott, H. Hosgormez, A. Neubeck, J.M. Marques, I. Pérez-Rodríguez, A.R. Rowe, D.E. LaRowe, C. Magnabosco, L.Y. Yeung, J.L. Ash, L.T. Bryndzia. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta. (2017)
external pageAn oligotrophic deep-subsurface community dependent on syntrophy is dominated by sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrifierscall_made
M.C.Y. Lau, T.L. Kieft, O. Kuloyo, B. Linage-Alvarez, E. van Heerden, M.R. Lindsay, C. Magnabosco, W. Wang, J.B. Wiggins, L. Guo, D.H. Perlman, S. Kyin, H.H. Shwe, R.L. Harris, Y. Oh, M.J. Yi, R. Purtschert, G.F. Slater, S. Ono, S. Wei, L. Li, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.C. Onstott. PNAS. (2016)
external pageA metagenomic window into carbon metabolism at 3 km depth in Precambrian continental crustcall_made
C. Magnabosco, K. Ryan, M.C.Y. Lau, O. Kuloyo, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.L. Kieft, E. van Heerden, T.C. Onstott. ISMEJ. (2016)
external pageVariations in microbial carbon sources and cycling in the deep continental subsurfacecall_made
D.N. Simkus, G.F. Slater, B. Sherwood Lollar, K. Wilkie, T.L. Kieft, C. Magnabosco, M.C.Y. Lau, M.J. Pullin, S.B. Hendrickson, K.E. Wommack, E.G.Sakowski, E. van Heerden, O. Kuloyo, B. Linage, G. Borgonie, T.C. Onstott. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. (2015)
external pagePermeability model of tight reservoir sandstones combining core-plug and Miniperm analysis of drill core; Longyearbyen CO2 Lab, Svalbardcall_made
C. Magnabosco, A. Braathen, K. Ogata. Norwegian Journal of Geology 94 (2014): 189-200.
external pageComparisons of the composition and biogeographic distribution of the bacterial communities occupying South African thermal springs with those inhabiting deep subsurface fracture watercall_made
C. Magnabosco, M. Tekere, M.C.Y. Lau, B. Linage, O. Kuloyo, M. Erasmus, E. Cason, E. van Heerden, G. Borgonie, T.L. Kieft, J. Olivier, T.C. Onstott. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology 5 (2014): 679.
external pagePhylogeny and phylogeography of functional genes shared among seven terrestrial subsurface metagenomes reveal N-cycling and microbial evolutionary relationshipscall_made
M.C.Y. Lau, C. Cameron, C. Magnabosco, C.T. Brown, F. Schilkey, S. Grim, S. Hendrickson, M. Pullin, B. Sherwood Lollar, E. van Heerden, T.L. Kieft, and T.C. Onstott. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology 5 (2014): 531.
external pageDoes aspartic acid racemization constrain the depth limit of the subsurface biosphere?call_made
T.C. Onstott, C. Magnabosco, A.D. Aubrey, A.S. Burton, J.P. Dworkin, J.E. Elsila, S. Grunsfeld, B.H. Cao, J.E. Hein, D.P. Glavin, T.L. Kieft, B.J. Silver, T.J. Phelps, E. van Heerden, D.J. Opperman, and J.L. Bada. Geobiology 12.1 (2014): 1-19.
external pageDenitrification and nitrogen fixation dynamics in the area surrounding an individual ghost shrimp (Neotrypaea californiensis) burrow systemcall_made
V.J. Bertics, J.A. Sohm, C. Magnabosco, and W. Ziebis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78.11 (2012): 3864-3872.
Theses
external pageFrom Genes to Metagenomes: Exploring life undergroundcall_made
C. Magnabosco, Princeton University, 2016
external pageA Characterization of the Biology and Nutrient Cycling of Two Glacial Lakes in Isfjord Radio, Svalbardcall_made
C. Magnabosco, University of Southern California, 2011
Book chapters
external pageBiogeography, Ecology, and Evolution of Deep Lifecall_made
C. Magnabosco, J.F. Biddle, C.S. Cockell, S.P. Jungbluth, K.I. Twing. In B. Orcutt, I. Daniel, & R. Dasgupta (Eds.) Deep Carbon: Past to Present. Cambridge University Press (2019): 524-555