2025
Bhattacharya D#, Van Etten J#, Panayotakis G, McDermott T, Stephens TG#. “Gene transfer drives community cooperation in geothermal habitats”. Trends in Microbiology, 2025. # = equal contribution
Van Etten J, Stephens TG, Bhattacharya D. “Genetic Transfer in Action: Uncovering DNA Flow in an Extremophilic Microbial Community”. Environmental Microbiology, 2025.
2024
Stephens,TG, Van Etten J, McDermott T, Christian W, Chaverra M, Gurney J, Lee Y, Kim H, Cho CH, Chovancek E, Westhoff P, Otte A, Northen TR, Bowen BP, Louie KB, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Mock T, Liu S, Miyagishima S, Yoshinaga M, Weber A, Yoon HS, Bhattacharya. “Temporal dynamics in a red alga dominated geothermal feature in Yellowstone National Park”. ISME Communications, 2024.
Van Etten J, Stephens TG, Chille E, Lipzen A, Peterson D, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Bhattacharya D. “Diverse fates of ancient horizontal gene transfers in extremophilic red algae”. Environmental Microbiology, 2024.
Benites LF, Stephens TG, Van Etten J, McDermott TR, Bhattacharya D. “Hot springs viruses at Yellowstone National Park have ancient origins and are adapted to thermophilic hosts”. Communications Biology, 2024.
2023
Van Etten J, Stephens TG, Bhattacharya D. “A k-mer-based approach for phylogenetic classification of taxa in environmental genomic data”. Systematic Biology, 2023.
Van Etten J, Benites LF, Stephens TG, Yoon HS, Bhattacharya D. “Algae obscura: the potential for rare species as model systems”. Journal of Phycology, 2023.
2022
Bhattacharya D, Van Etten J, Benites LF, Stephens TG. “Endosymbiotic ratchet accelerates divergence after organelle origin”. BioEssays, 2022.
Van Etten J, Yoon HS, Cho CH, Bhattacharya D. “Extremophilic red algae as models for understanding adaptation to hostile environments and evolution of eukaryotic life on the early Earth”. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022.
Van Etten J, Keddis R, Lisa J, Rauschenbach I. “The Diverse World of Protists – An Ideal Community with which to Introduce Microscopy in the Microbiology Teaching Laboratory”. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, 2022.
2020
Van Etten J. “Red Algal Extremophiles: Novel Genes and Paradigms”. Microscopy Today, 2020. (+ cover art for the issue)
Van Etten J & Bhattacharya D. “Horizontal Gene Transfer in Eukaryotes: Not If, But How Much?”. Trends in Genetics, 2020.
Van Etten J, Shumaker A, Mass T, Putnam H, Bhattacharya D. “Transcriptome analysis provides a blueprint of coral egg and sperm functions”. PeerJ, 2020.