Publications

Drew Steen, Taylor Royalty, Jenna Schmidt, Lauren Mullen (2021). Potential Activities and Long Lifetimes of Organic Carbon-Degrading Extracellular Enzymes in Deep Subsurface Sediments of the Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology.

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Drew Steen (2020). Analytical and Computational Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry in an Era of “Omics”. Frontiers in Marine Science.

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Drew Steen (2020). The fate of organic carbon in marine sediments - New insights from recent data and analysis. Deep-Sea Research I.

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Drew Steen (2020). Patterns in extracellular enzyme activity and microbial diversity in deep-sea Mediterranean sediments. Deep-Sea Research I.

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Susan Q. Lang, Magdalena R. Osburn, Drew Steen (2019). Carbon in the deep biosphere: forms, fates, and biogeochemical cycling. Frontiers in Microbiology.

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Taylor Royalty, Drew Steen (2019). Unaligned Sequence Similarity Search Using Deep Learning. arXiv.

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Taylor Royalty, Drew Steen (2019). Kinetics and identities of extracellular peptidases in subsurface sediments of the White Oak River Estuary, NC. ISME Journal.

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Drew Steen (2019). Polysaccharide hydrolysis in the presence of oil and dispersants: Insights into potential degradation pathways of exopolymeric substances (EPS) from oil-degrading bacteria. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.

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Taylor Royalty, Drew Steen (2019). Theoretical and Simulation-Based Investigation of the Relationship between Sequencing Effort, Microbial Community Richness, and Diversity in Binning Metagenome-Assembled Genomes. mSphere.

Drew Steen, Taylor Royalty (2019). Kinetics and Identities of Extracellular Peptidases in Subsurface Sediments of the White Oak River Estuary, North Carolina. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Drew Steen (2019). High proportions of bacteria and archaea across most biomes remain uncultured. ISME Journal.

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Drew Steen (2019). Uncultured microbial phyla suggest mechanisms for multi-thousand-year subsistence in Baltic Sea sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Lauren N. M. Quigley, Drew Steen (2019). Characterization of the Interactive Effects of Labile and Recalcitrant Organic Matter on Microbial Growth and Metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Drew Steen (2018). Understanding Electrochemically Activated Persulfate and Its Application to Ciprofloxacin Abatement. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Lauren Mullen, Drew Steen (2018). Potential Activities of Freshwater Exo- and Endo-Acting Extracellular Peptidases in East Tennessee and the Pocono Mountains. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Drew Steen (2017). Sequential bioavailability of sedimentary organic matter to heterotrophic bacteria. Environmental Microbiology.

Drew Steen, Lauren N. M. Quigley (2016). Evidence for the Priming Effect in a Planktonic Estuarine Microbial Community. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Drew Steen (2015). Substrate specificity of aquatic extracellular peptidases assessed by competitive inhibition assays using synthetic substrates. Aquatic Microbial Ecology.

Drew Steen (2015). New aminopeptidase from “microbial dark matter” archaeon. FASEB Journal.

Drew Steen (2014). Extracellular enzymes in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments: Perspectives on system variability and common research needs. Biogeochemistry 117:5-21.

Drew Steen (2014). Verrucomicrobia Are Candidates for Polysaccharide-Degrading Bacterioplankton in an Arctic Fjord of Svalbard.

Drew Steen (2013). Meta-Analysis of Quantification Methods Shows that Archaea and Bacteria Have Similar Abundances in the Subseafloor. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Drew Steen (0001). Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria. Nature Microbiology.

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Drew Steen (0001). Phylogenetically Novel Uncultured Microbial Cells Dominate Earth Microbiomes.