Full Name
Blair Paul
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Assistant Scientist
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B.S. Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, 2008
The Paul Lab studies the influence of genetic variation on physical and chemical interactions among microorganisms, with additional interest in microbe-virus dynamics. Current projects examine variation in genomes and proteins of bacteria, archaea, and viruses, while considering the ecological importance of diversification in shaping microbial partnerships. To this end, we apply a combination of computational, molecular, and geochemical tools to study microbial communities and viral assemblages from various environments.
V Kivenson, BG Paul, and DL Valentine. An ecological basis for dual genetic code expansion in marine deltaproteobacteria. bioRxiv doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.680620
Roux, S, BG Paul, SC Bagby, MA Allen, G Attwood, R Cavicchioli, L Chistoserdova, S Hallam, ME Hernandez, M Hess, WT Liu, and EA Eloe-Fadrosh. Ecology and molecular targets of hypermutation in the global microbiome. Nature Communications.doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23402-7
Vallota-Eastman, A, EC Arrington, S Meeken, S Roux, K Dasari, S Rosen, JF Miller, DL Valentine, and BG Paul (2020) Role of diversity-generating retroelements for regulatory pathway tuning in cyanobacteria. BMC Genomics, 21: 1-13. doi:10.1186/s12864-020-07052-5.
Sieber, MK, BG Paul, CJ Castelle, P Hu, SG Tringe, DL Valentine, GL Andersen, and JF Banfield (2019) Unusual metabolism and hypervariation in the genome of a Gracilibacteria (BD1-5) from an oil degrading community. mBio. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02128-19.
Paul, BG, D Burstein, CJ Castelle, S Handa, D Arambula, E Czornyj, BC Thomas, P Ghosh, JF Miller, JF Banfield, and DL Valentine (2017). Retroelement-guided protein diversification abounds in vast lineages of Bacteria and Archaea. Nature Microbiology, 2,17045. Doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.45
Handa, S, BG Paul, JF Miller, DL Valentine, and P Ghosh (2016) Conservation of the C-type lectin fold for accommodating massive sequence variation in archaeal diversity-generating retroelements. BMC Structural Biology, 16,13. Doi:10.1186/s12900-016-0064-6
Paul, BG, SC Bagby, E Czornyj, D Arambula, S Handa, A Sczyrba, P Ghosh, JF Miller and DL Valentine (2015) Targetted diversity generation by intraterrestrial archaea and archaeal viruses. Nature Communications 6. doi:10.1038/ncomms7585.