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Protist diversity and phylogeny

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Marcela Uliano‐Silva
Nord University
2
Tyler H. Coale
University of California, Santa Cruz
3
Nicholas Stoler
Pennsylvania State University
4
Kelsey Williamson
Dalhousie University
5
Conor J. McClune
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6
Samuel E. Lacey
Human Technopole
7
Gareth A. Coleman
University of Bristol
8
Thomas D. Lewin
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
9
Eva Breyer
Shanghai Ocean University
10
Andrew Weems
The University of Texas at Austin

Papers

1
Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga
Science|2024
192 cit.
2
Extensive structural rearrangement of intraflagellar transport trains underpins bidirectional cargo transport
Cell|2024
34 cit.
3
In vivo evidence for bleb-induced survival signaling in metastatic melanoma
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Stefan Geisen
Wageningen University & Research
2
Fabien Burki
Uppsala University
3
Nikhil S. Malvankar
Yale University
4
Jun R. Yang
Qingdao Center of Resource Chemistry and New Materials
5
Shane McCarthy
Wellcome Sanger Institute
6
Éric Pelletier
Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité
7
Chris Greening
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
8
Amanda Miguel
Stanford University
9
Zhixin Lyu
National Institutes of Health
10
Lucie Zinger
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Papers

1
MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads
BMC Bioinformatics|2023
1.8k cit.
2
Trophic interactions between predatory protists and pathogen-suppressive bacteria impact plant health
The ISME Journal|2022
178 cit.
3
Phylogenetically and catabolically diverse diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold seep sediments
Nature Communications|2022
132 cit.
4
Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity
Nature Microbiology|2023
128 cit.
5
Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen
Nature|2023
86 cit.
6
Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE
Nature Communications|2024
81 cit.
7
A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks
Science Advances|2022
80 cit.
8
Nematodes as suppressors and facilitators of plant performance
New Phytologist|2023
80 cit.
9
Interactive effects of global change drivers as determinants of the link between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Global Change Biology|2022
79 cit.
10
Molecular hydrogen in seawater supports growth of diverse marine bacteria
Nature Microbiology|2023
78 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Koichiro Tamura
Tokyo Metropolitan University
2
Pavel A. Pevzner
University of California San Diego
3
Max A. Alekseyev
George Washington University
4
Sallie W. Chisholm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6
Patrick J. Keeling
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
7
Debashish Bhattacharya
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
8
Edward F. DeLong
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
9
Stephen J. Giovannoni
Oregon State University
10
Rudolf Amann
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Papers

1
MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2013
47.9k cit.
2
MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2016
45.6k cit.
3
MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2011
40.3k cit.
4
MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2018
38.8k cit.
5
MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2007
28.8k cit.
6
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
Journal of Computational Biology|2012
27.2k cit.
7
MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 11
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2021
22.1k cit.
8
Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees.
Molecular Biology and Evolution|1993
11.4k cit.
9
Assembly of long, error-prone reads using repeat graphs
Nature Biotechnology|2019
6.3k cit.
10
Prospects for inferring very large phylogenies by using the neighbor-joining method
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2004
5.6k cit.

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