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Laura A Katz

Elsie Damon Simonds Professor

Smith College

United States

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Microbiology

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Marine Biology

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Genome Assembly

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Comparative Biology

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Dna Metabarcoding

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Comparative Genomics

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Endosymbiosis

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Articles19

Phylogenomic workflow for uncultivable microbial eukaryotes using single-cell RNA sequencing − A case study with planktonic ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea)

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2025

Rethinking large-scale phylogenomics with EukPhylo v.1.0, a flexible toolkit to enable phylogeny-informed data curation and analyses of diverse eukaryotic lineages

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2025

Freshwater Foraminifera Biodiversity in New England (USA): Evaluation of Field Sites and a Botanical Garden

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2025

Genome content reorganization in the non-model ciliate Chilodonella uncinata : insights into nuclear architecture, DNA content, and chromosome fragmentation during macronuclear development

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2025

Lost in translation: conserved amino acid usage despite extreme codon bias in foraminifera

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2025

Visualizing Epigenetics: A Review of Microscopy Techniques for Investigating DNA Methylation Patterns, Chromatin Structure, and Gene Expression

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2025

Foraminifera as a model of eukaryotic genome dynamism

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2024

Editorial 2024

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2024

Forty Years of Inferential Methods in the Journals of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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2024

Diverse Genome Structures among Eukaryotes May Have Arisen in Response to Genetic Conflict

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2024

Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes

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2023

Updated Virophage Taxonomy and Distinction from Polinton-like Viruses

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2023

Foraminifera as a model of the extensive variability in genome dynamics among eukaryotes

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2022

Epigenetic influences of mobile genetic elements on ciliate genome architecture and evolution

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2022

Macronuclear development in ciliates, with a focus on nuclear architecture

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2022

Phylogenomic Analyses of 2,786 Genes in 158 Lineages Support a Root of the Eukaryotic Tree of Life between Opisthokonts and All Other Lineages

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2022

Old genes in new places: A taxon-rich analysis of interdomain lateral gene transfer events

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2022

Newly designed foraminifera primers identify habitat‐specific lineages through metabarcoding analyses

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2022

Examining the relationship between the testate amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) and its associated intracellular microalgae using molecular and microscopic methods

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2022

Collaborators8

Jean-Marie Volland

Assistant Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara

UNITED STATES

Mattia Greco

Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC)

SPAIN

Thomas Hackl

Assistant Professor

University of Groningen

NETHERLANDS

Luciana Santoferrara

Assistant Professor

Hofstra University

UNITED STATES

David Posada

Full Professor

Universidade de Vigo

SPAIN

Adam Eyre-Walker

Professor

University of Sussex

UNITED KINGDOM

Jean-David Grattepanche

Research Assistant Professor

Temple University

UNITED STATES

Susan Goldstein

Professor Emeritus

University of Georgia

UNITED STATES

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