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• J. Cesar Ignacio Espinoza, PhD

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 315 Sahuaro Hall 1110 East South Campus The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721

• ignacioel@email.arizona.edu

Education

• 2015, PhD, University of Arizona

Thesis title: "Functional and Population Based Viral Ecology". Advisor Dr. Matthew B. Sullivan

• 2010, MS, University of Arizona

Thesis title: "Phylogenomics of T4-like phages". Advisor Dr. Matthew B. Sullivan

• 2007, BS, Instituto Tecnologico del Valle de Oaxaca

Research interests

1. Microbial and phage genomics
2. Microbial ecology
3. Microbes and biogeochemical cycles

Publications

• 1. Sullivan, M.B., K.H. Huang, J.C. Ignacio-Espinoza, A. Berlin, L. Kelly, P.R. Weigele, A.S. DeFrancesco, S.E. Kern, L.R. Thompson, S. Young, S.Yandava, R. Fu, B. Krastins, M. Chase, D. Sarracino, M.S. Osburne, M.R. Henn & S.W. Chisholm. (2010). Genomic analysis of oceanic cyanobacterial myoviruses compared to T4- like myoviruses from diverse hosts and environments Environmental Microbiology 12:3035-56.

• 2. Ignacio-Espinoza J.C. & M.B. Sullivan. (2012). Phylogenomics of T4 cyanophages: lateral gene transfer in the 'core' and origins of host genes. Environmental Microbiology 14:2113-26.

• 3. Solonenko S., J.C. Ignacio-Espinoza, A. Alberti, C. Cruaud, S. Hallam, K. Kostantinidis, G. Tyson, P. Wincker & MB Sullivan. (2013). Impact of sequencing platform and library preparation choices on viral metagenomes. BMC Genomics, 14:320.

• 4. Ignacio-Espinoza J.C., S.A. Solonenko & M.B. Sullivan. (2013). The global virome: not as big as we thought? Current Opinion Virology, 3:566–571.

• 5. Deng, L.*,J.C. Ignacio-Espinoza*, A. Gregory, B.T. Poulos, P. Hugenholtz & M.B. Sullivan. (2014). Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space. Nature. 513: 242– 245.

• 6. Lara E., K. Holmfeldt, N. Solonenko, E. Laia-Sà, J.C. Ignacio-Espinoza, F.M. Cornejo-Castillo, N.C. Verberkmoes, D. Vaqué, M.B. Sullivan & S.G. Acinas. (2015 Life-style and genome structure of marine Pseudoalteromonas siphovirus B8b isolated from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. PLoS One 10(1): e0114829.

• 7. Brum, J.R.*, Ignacio-Espinoza* J.C., Roux* S., G. Doulcier, S. Acinas, A. Alberti, S. Chaffron, L. Coppola, C. Cruaud, C. de Vargas, P. Gasol, G. Gorsky, A.C. Gregory, L. Guidi, P. Hingamp, F. Not, H. Ogata, S. Pesant, B.T. Poulos, S.M., Schwenck1, S. Speich, C. Dimier, M. Pichera, S. Searson, S. Kandels-Lewis, Tara Oceans Coordinators, P. Bork, C. Bowler, E. Karsenti, S. Sunagawa, P. Wincker, & M.B. Sullivan. Global patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities. Science. In Press

• 8. Lima-Mendez G, K. Faust, N. Henry, J. Decelle, S. Colin, F. Carcilli, S. CHaffron, J.C. Ignacio-Espinoza, S. Roux, F. Vincent, L. Bittner, Y. Darzi, J. Wang, S Audic, L Berline, G Bontempi, L. Copola, F.M. Cornejo- Castillo, F. D’Ovidio, L. Demeester, M.J. Garet-Delmas, L. Guidi, S. Pesant, G. Salazar, C. Dimier, M. Picheral, S. Searson, S. Kandels-Lewis, Tara Oceans coordinators, S.G. Acinas, G. Gorsky, F. Not, H. Ogata, S. Speich, J. Weissenbach, P. Wincker, S. Sunagawa, P. Boork, M.B. Sullivan, C. Bowler, E. Karsenti, C. de Vargas & J. Raes. Top-Down determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome. Science. In Press

• 9. Ignacio-Espinoza J.C., V.T. Dang, O. Jaillon, P. Winker & M.B. Sullivan. Comparative viromics across four Mediterranean Sea dsDNA viral communities from the Tara Oceans Expedition. Submitted to Environmental Microbiology

• 10. Brum* J.R., Ignacio-Espinoza* J.C., Kim E.H*., G. Trubl, R.M. Jones, N.C. VerBerkmoes, V.I. Rich, & M.B. Sullivan. Virion structural metaproteomics sheds light on marine ‘viral dark matter’. In preparation.

• 11. Ignacio-Espinoza J.C.*, A. Gregory*, Deng, L., B.T. Poulos, P. Hugenholtz & M.B. Sullivan. Genomic population landscape of cyanophage viral communities. In preparation.

• 12. Ignacio-Espinoza J.C., D. Anderson, B. Woodcroft, S.B. Hodgkins, J.P. Chanton, G. Tyson, S. Saleska, V. Rich. Candidatus Caldiserium septentrionalis a novel sulfate reducing bacteria in thawing permafrost. In preparation.

Star denotes shared first authorship.

Outreach and press

• Finalist, top 10, in the Oceans180 video competition: Innocence by viral tagging, seen by more than 30 thousand students world wide.

• Tiniest Catch: UA Scientists' Fishing Expedition Reveals Viral Diversity in the Sea

Featured also in ScienceDaily, EurekAlert, PhysOrg, NSF, RealClearScience.

• Microbial Murder Mystery Lands Two UA Students in Top 10 of Ocean Science Video Challenge

• twitter handle: @phagenomics