CBIOMES Annual Meeting (2021)

Jesse McNichol, Postdoc, Fuhrman Lab

University of Southern California

Progress & prospects for using universal primers in modelling work

Single assay for Bacteria, Archaea & Eukarya

Microbe art: @claudia_traboni

"ASVs" = (Exact) Amplicon Sequence Variants

A comprehensive picture of phytoplankton

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

What do relative abundances mean?

Scaled by total chlorophyll (CTD)

An integrative framework

+ Chlorophyll

+ Flow cytometry

Scaled ASV data

r_i^{j} = t_i a^{j} Q_i n_{i}^{j}

Mapping model traits to ASV data

Pančić and Kiørboe, 2018

ASV DNA data

ASV phylogeny

Using the full dataset

Worden et al., 2015 (Science)

Full community profile

Single cell genomes from Pachiadaki et al., 2019

Network inference

Future collaboration

pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/staff/resing/clivar.html

Reygondeau et al., 2013

Conclusions

1. New datasets

2. DARWIN - data comparisons

3. Data for collaboration

4. Expanding reach of models

Acknowledgements

Paul Berube   &   Steven Biller

Yi-Chun Yeh (PhD candidate, Fuhrman lab)

Questions?

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)