Anne Kathryn M. Kauffman
Anne Kathryn M. Kauffman
Professional Summary:
Please visit kauffmanlab.org
Education and Training:
- PhD, Biological Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2014)
Employment:
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering (2014–2019)
Research Expertise:
- Bacterial viruses (phages)
Journal Articles:
- Kirchberger PC, Orata FD, Nasreen T, Kauffman KM, Tarr CL, Case RJ, Polz MF, Boucher YF. Culture-independent tracking of Vibrio cholerae lineages reveals complex spatiotemporal dynamics in a natural population. Environ Microbiol. 2020; 22(10).
- Zhao S, Lieberman TD, Poyet M, Kauffman KM, Gibbons SM, Groussin M, Xavier RJ, Alm EJ. Adaptive Evolution within Gut Microbiomes of Healthy People. Cell Host Microbe. 2019; 25(5).
- Kauffman KM, Polz MF. Streamlining standard bacteriophage methods for higher throughput. MethodsX. 2018; 5.
- Lee YJ, Dai N, Walsh SE, Müller S, Fraser ME, Kauffman KM, Guan C, Corrêa IR, Weigele PR. Identification and biosynthesis of thymidine hypermodifications in the genomic DNA of widespread bacterial viruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018; 115(14).
- Kauffman KM, Hussain FA, Yang J, Arevalo P, Brown JM, Chang WK, VanInsberghe D, Elsherbini J, Sharma RS, Cutler MB, Kelly L, Polz MF. A major lineage of non-tailed dsDNA viruses as unrecognized killers of marine bacteria. Nature. 2018; 554(7690).
- Burks DJ, Norris S, Kauffman KM, Joy A, Arevalo P, Azad RK, Wildschutte H. Environmental vibrios represent a source of antagonistic compounds that inhibit pathogenic Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains. Microbiologyopen. 2017; 6(5).
- Kirchberger PC, Orata FD, Barlow EJ, Kauffman KM, Case RJ, Polz MF, Boucher Y. A Small Number of Phylogenetically Distinct Clonal Complexes Dominate a Coastal Vibrio cholerae Population. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2016; 82(18).
- Szabo G, Preheim SP, Kauffman KM, David LA, Shapiro J, Alm EJ, Polz MF. Reproducibility of Vibrionaceae population structure in coastal bacterioplankton. ISME J. 2013; 7(3).
- Montgomery-Fullerton MM, Cooper RA, Kauffman KM, Shields JD, Ratzlaff RE. Detection of Panulirus argus Virus 1 in Caribbean spiny lobsters. Dis Aquat Organ. 2007; 76(1).
Professional Memberships:
- American Society for Virology (2018–present)
- American Society for Microbiology (2014–present)
Presentations:
- "Resolving the structure of phage-bacteria interactions in the context of natural diversity" Microbe (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic), American Society for Microbiology, Virus-host Interactions in Marine Ecosystems (2020)