Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Zoumplis A, Füssy Z, Kaul D, Schulte N, Zheng H, Lampe RH, Brykla K, Venepally P, Mikucki JA, McKnight DM, and AE Allen. (2026) Molecular evidence for a relict marine community in an Antarctic Dry Valleys subglacial brine fed system. Nature Geoscience 19, 1105-1114.
  2. Patin NV, Jacobson EK, Gold Z, Van Cise AM, Dinasquet J, Ellman B, Lampe RH, Schulberg A, Bowlin N, Freedman R, Allen AE, Satterthwaite E, and BX Semmens. (2026) Maximizing eDNA detections of rare marine organisms: a case study of a delphinid species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
  3. Coale TH, Lampe RH, Tan M, Rowland E, Füssy Z, Venepally P, Zheng H, McCrow J, Bertrand EM, and AE Allen. (2026) Molecular and physiological acclimation to low light and iron scarcity in a globally abundant oceanic pelagophyte. Nature Communications 17, 5480.
  4. Satterthwaite EV, Ruiz TD, Patin NV, Alksne MN, Thomas L, Dinasquet J, Lampe RH, Chan KG, Patrick N, Allen AE, Baumann-Pickering S, and BX Semmens. (2026) Microbial and small zooplankton communities predict density of baleen whales in the southern California Current Ecosystem. PLOS One 21: e0334209.
  5. Selph KE, Lampe RH, Yingling N, Bhabu R, Kranz SA, Allen AE, and MR Landry. (2026) Phytoplankton community composition in the oligotrophic Argo Basin of the Eastern Indian Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II 226, 105602.
  6. Landry ML, Laiz-Carrión R, Kranz SA, Selph KE, Stukel MR, Malca E, Die D, Beckley LE, Décima M, Swalethorp R, Quintanilla JM, Yingling N, Davies C, Traboni C, Borrego-Santos R, Goes JI, deSouza A, Fernández PR, Pennino G, Kim LE, Kehinde O, Lampe RH, Allen AE, Kelly TB, Muhling BA, Gu S, Cassar N, Laget M, Biard T, Liu H, Io KH, Shiroza A, Gawley C, Fender CK, Rose HM, Jivanjee A, and L Matisons. (2025) Overview of BLOOFINZ/INDITUN investigations of the southern bluefin spawning region off northwest Australia, January-March 2022. Deep Sea Research Part II 224, 105564.
  7. Lampe RH, Rabines AJ, Wood-Rocca SM, Schulberg A, Goericke R, Venepally P, Zheng H, Stukel MR, Landry MR, Barton AD, and AE Allen. (2025) Relationships between phytoplankton pigments and DNA- or RNA-based abundances support ecological applications. Biogeosciences 22, 6787-6810.
  8. Füssy Z, Lampe RH, Arrigo KR, Barry K, Brisbin MM, Brussaard CPD, Decelle J, de Vargas C, DiTullio GR, Elbourne LD, Frischer ME, Goodstein DM, Grigoriev IV, Hayes RD, Healey AL, James CC, Jenkins JW, Juery C, Kumar M, Kustka AB, Maumus F, Oborník M, Paulsen IT, Probart I, Saito MA, Schmutz J, Skalický T, Tec-Campos D, Tomelka H, Novák Vanclová AMG, Věchtová P, Venepally P, Wilson-Mortier B, Zengler K, Zheng H, and AE Allen. (2025) Genome-resolved biogeography of Phaeocystales, cosmopolitan bloom-forming microalgae. Nature Communications 16, 8559.
  9. Stukel MR, Allen AE, Barbeau KA, Chabert P, Dovel S, Gangrade S, Kranz SA, Lampe RH, Landry MR, Marrec P, Messié M, Miller AJ, Wilkinson G, and MD Ohman. (2025) Disturbance ecology in a pelagic upwelling biome: Lagrangian frameworks for studying succession. BioScience, biaf144.
  10. Lampe RH, Rabines AJ, Ellman BA, Zheng H, and AE Allen. (2025) Marine microbial mock communities for validating rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Microbiology Resource Announcements 14:e00298-25.
  11. Lampe RH, Coale TH, McQuaid JB, and AE Allen. (2024) Molecular Mechanisms for Iron Uptake and Homeostasis in Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton. Annual Review of Microbiology 78, 213-32.
  12. James CC, Allen AE, Lampe RH, Rabines AJ, and AD Barton. (2024) Endemic, cosmopolitan, and generalist taxa and their habitat affinities within a coastal marine microbiome. Scientific Reports 14, 22408.
  13. Haghani N, Lampe RH, Samuel B, Chalasani S, and MA Matty. (2024) Identification and characterization of a skin microbiome on Caenorhabditis elegans suggests environmental microbes confer cuticle protection. Microbiology Spectrum 12:e00169-24.
  14. Ternon E, Carter ML, Cancelada L, Lampe RH, Allen AE, Anderson C, Prather K, and W Gerwick. (2023) Yessotoxin production and aerosolization during the unprecedented red tide of 2020 in southern California. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 11, 00021.
  15. Lampe RH, Coale TH, Forsch KO, Jabre LJ, Kekuewa S, Bertrand EM, Horák A, Oborník M, Rabines AJ, Zheng H, Rowland E, Andersson AJ, Barbeau KA, and AE Allen. (2023) Short-term acidification promotes diverse iron acquisition and conservation mechanisms in upwelling-associated phytoplankton. Nature Communications 14, 7215.
  16. Satterthwaite EV, Allen AE, Lampe RH, Gold Z, Thompson AR, Bowlin N, Swalethorp R, Goodwin KD, Hazen EL, Bograd SJ, Matthews SA, and BX Semmens. (2023) Toward identifying the critical ecological habitat of larval fishes: An environmental DNA window into fisheries management. Oceanography 36 (Supplement 1), 90-93.
  17. Maniscalco MA, Brzezinski MA, Lampe RH, Cohen NR, McNair HM, Ellis KA, Brown M, Till CP, Twining BS, Bruland KW, Marchetti A, and K Thamatrakoln. (2022) Diminished carbon and nitrate assimilation drive changes in diatom elemental stoichiometry independent of silicification in an iron-limited assemblage. ISME Communications 2, 57.
  18. Cohen NR, Alexander HA, Krinos AI, Hu SK, and RH Lampe. (2022) Marine microeukaryote metatranscriptomics: sample processing and bioinformatic workflow recommendations for ecological applications. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 867007.
  19. James CC, Barton AD, Allen LZ, Lampe RH, Rabines A, Schulberg A, Zheng H, Goericke R, Goodwin KD, and AE Allen. (2022) Influence of nutrient supply on plankton microbiome biodiversity and distribution in a coastal upwelling region. Nature Communications 13, 2488.
  20. Kranzler CF, Brzezinski MA, Cohen NR, Lampe RH, Maniscalco M, Till CP, Mack J, Latham JR, Bruland KW, Twining BS, Marchetti A, and K Thamatrakoln. (2021) Impaired viral infection and reduced mortality of diatoms in iron-limited oceanic regimes. Nature Geoscience 14, 231-237.
  21. Lampe RH, Hernandez G*, Lin Y-Y, and A Marchetti. (2021) Representative diatom and coccolithophore species exhibit divergent responses throughout simulated upwelling cycles. mSystems 6:e00188-21. *Undergraduate mentee
  22. Lampe RH, Wang S, Cassar N, and A Marchetti. (2019) Strategies among phytoplankton in response to alleviation of nutrient stress in a subtropical gyre. The ISME Journal 13, 2984-2997.
  23. Till CP, Solomon JR, Cohen NR, Lampe RH, Marchetti A, Coale TH, and KW Bruland. (2019) The iron limitation mosaic in the California Current System: factors governing Fe availability in the shelf/near-shelf region. Limnology and Oceanography 64, 109-123.
  24. Lampe RH, Mann EL, Cohen NR, Till CP, Thamatrakoln K, Brzezinski MA, Bruland KW, Twining BS, and A Marchetti. (2018) Different iron storage strategies among bloom-forming diatoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115, E12275-E12284.
  25. Lampe RH, Cohen NR, Ellis KA, Bruland KW, Maldonado MT, Peterson TD, Till CP, Brzezinski MA, Bargu S, Thamatrakoln K, Kuzminov FI, Twining BS, and A Marchetti. (2018) Divergent gene expression among phytoplankton taxa in response to upwelling. Environmental Microbiology 20, 3069-3082.
  26. Cohen NR, Ellis KA, Lampe RH, McNair HM, Twining BS, Brzezinski MA, Maldonado MT, Kuzminov FI, Thamatrakoln K, Till CP, Bruland KW, Sunda WG, Bargu S, and A Marchetti. (2017) Variations in diatom transcriptional responses to changes in iron availability across ocean provinces. Frontiers in Marine Science 4, 360.
  27. Cohen NR, Ellis KA, Burns WG, Lampe RH, Schuback N, Johnson ZI, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA, and A Marchetti. (2017) Iron and vitamin interactions in marine diatom isolates and natural assemblages of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography 62, 2076-2096.
  28. Marchetti A, Moreno CM, Cohen NR, Oleinikov I, Delong K, Twining BS, Armbrust EV, and RH Lampe. (2017) Development of a molecular-based index for assessing iron status in bloom-forming pennate diatoms. Journal of Phycology 53, 820-832.
  29. Schnetzer A, Lampe RH, Benitez-Nelson CR, Marchetti A, Osburn CL, and AO Tatters. (2017) Marine snow formation by the toxin-producing diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia australis. Harmful Algae 61, 23-30.

In Review & Revision

  • Lampe RH, Wood-Rocca SM, and AE Allen. (in revision) Phytoplankton community responses to environmental change in the California Current Ecosystem.
  • Lampe RH, Rao D, Kell RM, Chmiel RJ, Schanke NL, Kim SY, Lees LE, Bolinesi F, Mangoni O, Casotti R, Balestra C, Zheng H, Moran DM, Allen AE, McIlvin MR, DiTullio GR, and MA Saito. (in review) Primary vitamin B12 limitation and widespread stress in Antarctic phytoplankton. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.11.05.764676
  • de Souza A, Gu S, Kranz SA, Rose J, Lampe RH, Io KH, Deng L, Allen AE, Liu H, Follett C, Landry MR, and N Cassar. (in revision) Coastal hotspots of biological nitrogen fixation in an undersampled region of the eastern Indian Ocean.
  • Steck V, Lampe RH, Füssy Z, Bhakta S, Marrufo KC, Adams JC, Sachdev E, Forsch KO, Barbeau KA, Allen AE, and JM Diaz. (in revision) Atypical phosphatases drive dissolved organic phosphorus utilization by phosphorus-stressed phytoplankton in the California Current Ecosystem. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.09.648040
  • Lin YY, Palmer M, Lampe RH, and A Marchetti. (in revision) Co-occurring coastal diatoms exhibit divergent responses to the upwelling cycle.
  • Adams JC, Sachdev E, Steck V, Castaneda J, Lampe RH, McClure C, Nguyen T, Füssy Z, Gonzalez DJ, Allen AE, Bowman JS, Aluwihare LI, and JM Diaz. (in revision) Alkaline phosphatase mediates heterotrophic carbon acquisition in the California Current Ecosystem.
  • James CC, Hou L, Lampe RH, Barbeau KA, Barton AD, Stukel MR, and AE Allen. (in revision) Contrasting productivity-diversity patterns across taxonomic groups in a coastal upwelling ecosystem.
  • Moreau E, Lampe RH, Füssy Z, Lopez P, McIlvin M, Zheng H, Allen AE, Saito MA, and M Boye. (in review) Divergent molecular strategies underlie contrasting nickel sensitivity in two marine diatoms at environmentally relevant concentrations.

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