Albert Barberan

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• Barberan, A., Blankinship, J., Chen, Y., & Schiro, G. (2022). Ride the dust: Linking dust dispersal and spatial distribution of microorganisms across an arid landscape. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, N/A.
• Barberan, A., Gornish, E., & Williams, J. (2021). Effects of buffelgrass removal and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities during an extreme drought in the Sonoran Desert. Restoration Ecology, NA.
• Barberan, A., Gornish, E., Munson, S., Laushman, K., Butterfield, B., Balazs, K., & Yang, B. (2022). Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland     ecosystems? . Journal of Applied Ecology.
• Gornish, E., Kline, A., Yang, B., Miller, M., Blankinship, J., Barberan, A., & Martyn, T. (2022). Rock structures improve seedling establishment, litter catchment, fungal richness, and soil moisture in the first year after installation. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, N/A.
• Kiela, P. R., Barberan, A., Ghishan, F. K., Zhang, D. D., Dodson, M., Liu, P., & Schiro, G. (2022). Interactions between arsenic exposure, high-fat diet and NRF2 shape the complex responses in the murine gut microbiome and hepatic metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiomes. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/frmbi.2022.1041188
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  Inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure has been associated to various detrimental effects such as development of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes via oxidative stress and induced prolonged activation of the NRF2 transcription factor. Such effects can be aggravated by poor dietary habits. The role of gut microbiota in promoting metabolic changes in response to arsenic has yet to be precisely defined. To address the complexity of the interactions between diet, NFE2L2/NRF2, and gut microbiota, we studied the chronic effects of iAs exposure in wild-type (WT) and Nrf2-/- mice fed normal (ND) vs. high-fat diet (HFD), on the gut microbial community in the context of hepatic metabolism. We demonstrate that all treatments and interactions influenced bacteria and metabolic profiles, with dietary differences causing a strong overlap of responses between the datasets. By identifying five metabolites of known microbial origin and following their fate across treatments, we provide examples on how gut microbial products can participate in the development of iAs and HFD-induced metabolic disease. Overall, our results underline the importance of the microbial community in driving gut-liver-cross talk during iAs and HFD exposure.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Changes in soil microbial communities across an urbanization gradient: a local-scale temporal study in the arid Southwestern USA. Microorganisms.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Contrasting community assembly forces drive microbial structural and potential functional responses to precipitation in an incipient soil system. Frontiers Microbiology.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Dynamics and complexity of dark fermentation microbial communities producing hydrogen from sugar beet molasses in continuously operating packed bed reactors. Frontiers Microbiology.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Dynamics of dark fermentation microbial communities in the light of lactate and butyrate production. Microbiome.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Dynamics of gut microbiota recovery after antibiotic exposure in young and old mice (a pilot study). Microorganisms.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Global patterns and climatic controls of dust-associated microbial communities.. Microbiology Spectrum.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem. The ISME Journal.
• Barberan, A. (2021). Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences. Environmental Microbiology.
• Maier, R. M., Butterfield, B. J., Fontana, C. G., Chen, Y., Barberan, A., Neilson, J. W., & Kushwaha, P. (2021). Arid ecosystem vegetation canopy-gap dichotomy: influence on soil microbial composition and nutrient cycling functional potential. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1128/AEM.02780-20
• Sengupta, A., Volkmann, T. H., Danczak, R. E., Stegen, J. C., Dontsova, K. M., Abramson, N., Bugaj, A. S., Volk, M. J., Matos, K. A., Meira-Neto, A. A., Barberan, A., Neilson, J. W., Maier, R. M., Chorover, J. D., Troch, P. A., & Meredith, L. (2021). Contrasting Community Assembly Forces Drive Microbial Structural and Potential Functional Responses to Precipitation in an Incipient Soil System.. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12(3414).
• Yang, F., Zhang, Z., Barberan, A., Yang, Y., Ju, S., & Gu0, H. (2021). Nitrogen-induced acidification plays a vital role driving ecosystem functions: Insights from a 6-year nitrogen enrichment experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
• Barberan, A., Maier, R. M., Kushwaha, P., Neilson, J. W., & Chen, Y. (2020). Life history strategies of soil microbial communities is an arid ecosystem. ISME Journal, online journal, doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00803-y. doi:doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00803-y
• Barberan, A., Rowe, J., Franklin, K., & Gornish, E. (2020). Buffelgrass invasion and glyphosate effects on desert soil microbiome communities. Biological Invasions.
• Chen, Y., Kuang, J., Wang, P., Shu, W., & Barberan, A. (2020). Associations between human impacts and forest soil microbial communities. Elementa.
• Gornish, E., Fehmi, J. S., Danielson, R., Barberan, A., & Farrell, H. (2020). Disturbance is more important than seeding or grazing in determining soil microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland. Restoration Ecology.
• Parsons, L. S., Sayre, J., Ender, C., Rodrigues, J., & Barberan, A. (2020). Soil microbial communities in restored and unrestored coastal dune ecosystems in California. RESTORATION ECOLOGY.
• Aanderud, Z. T., Saurey, S., Ball, B. A., Wall, D. H., Barrett, J. E., Muscarella, M. E., Griffin, N. A., Virginia, R. A., Barberan, A., & Adams, B. J. (2019). Stoichiometric Shifts in Soil C:N:P Promote Bacterial Taxa Dominance, Maintain Biodiversity, and Deconstruct Community Assemblages (vol 9, 1401, 2018). FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 10.
• Angel, F. M., dos, S., Moreno-Paz, M., Gallardo-Carreno, I., Blanco, Y., Warren-Rhodes, K., Garcia-Villadangos, M., Ruiz-Bermejo, M., Barberan, A., Wettergreen, D., Cabrol, N., & Parro, V. (2019). Prokaryotic Community Structure and Metabolisms in Shallow Subsurface of Atacama Desert Playas and Alluvial Fans After Heavy Rains: Repairing and Preparing for Next Dry Period. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 10.
• Dietzel, K., Valle, D., Fierer, N., U'Ren, J. M., & Barberan, A. (2019). Geographical Distribution of Fungal Plant Pathogens in Dust Across the United States. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 7.
• Choudoir, M. J., Barberan, A., Menninger, H. L., Dunn, R. R., & Fierer, N. (2018). Variation in range size and dispersal capabilities of microbial taxa. ECOLOGY, 99(2), 322-334.
• Dai, Z., Su, W., Chen, H., Barberan, A., Zhao, H., Yu, M., Yu, L. u., Brookes, P. C., Schadt, C. W., Chang, S. X., & Xu, J. (2018). Long-term nitrogen fertilization decreases bacterial diversity and favors the growth of Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria in agro-ecosystems across the globe. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 24(8), 3452-3461.
• Ortiz-Alvarez, R., Fierer, N., de, l., Casamayor, E. O., & Barberan, A. (2018). Consistent changes in the taxonomic structure and functional attributes of bacterial communities during primary succession. ISME JOURNAL, 12(7), 1658-1667.
• Sederholm, M. R., Schmitz, B. W., Barberan, A., & Pepper, I. L. (2018). Effects of metam sodium fumigation on the abundance, activity, and diversity of soil bacterial communities. APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY, 124, 27-33.
• Valle, D., Albuquerque, P., Zhao, Q., Barberan, A., & Fletcher Jr., R. J. (2018). Extending the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to presence/absence data: A case study on North American breeding birds and biogeographical shifts expected from climate change. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 24(11), 5560-5572.
• Zhang, X., Johnston, E. R., Barberan, A., Ren, Y. i., Wang, Z., & Han, X. (2018). Effect of intermediate disturbance on soil microbial functional diversity depends on the amount of effective resources. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 20(10), 3862-3875.
• Barberan, A., Velazquez, H. C., Jones, S., & Fierer, N. (2017). Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. MSPHERE, 2(4).
• Connor, N., Barberan, A., & Clauset, A. (2017). Using null models to infer microbial co-occurrence networks. PLOS ONE, 12(5).
• Craine, J. M., Barberan, A., Lynch, R. C., Menninger, H. L., Dunn, R. R., & Fierer, N. (2017). Molecular analysis of environmental plant DNA in house dust across the United States. AEROBIOLOGIA, 33(1), 71-86.
• Dai, Z., Barberan, A., Li, Y., Brookes, P. C., & Xu, J. (2017). Bacterial Community Composition Associated with Pyrogenic Organic Matter (Biochar) Varies with Pyrolysis Temperature and Colonization Environment. MSPHERE, 2(2).
• Luongo, J. C., Barberan, A., Hacker-Cary, R., Morgan, E. E., Miller, S. L., & Fierer, N. (2017). Microbial analyses of airborne dust collected from dormitory rooms predict the sex of occupants. INDOOR AIR, 27(2), 338-344.
• Zhang, X., Johnston, E. R., Barberan, A., Ren, Y. i., Lu, X., & Han, X. (2017). Decreased plant productivity resulting from plant group removal experiment constrains soil microbial functional diversity. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 23(10), 4318-4332.
• Barberan, A., Hammer, T. J., Madden, A. A., & Fierer, N. (2016). Microbes Should Be Central to Ecological Education and Outreach. JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOLOGY EDUCATION, 23-28. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.984
• Gornish, E. S., Fierer, N., & Barberan, A. (2016). Associations between an Invasive Plant (Taeniatherum caput-medusae, Medusahead) and Soil Microbial Communities. PLOS ONE, 11(9).
• Madden, A. A., Barberan, A., Bertone, M. A., Menninger, H. L., Dunn, R. R., & Fierer, N. (2016). The diversity of arthropods in homes across the United States as determined by environmental DNA analyses. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 25(24), 6214-6224.
• Stopnisek, N., Zuehlke, D., Carlier, A., Barberan, A., Fierer, N., Becher, D., Riedel, K., Eberl, L., & Weisskopf, L. (2016). Molecular mechanisms underlying the close association between soil Burkholderia and fungi. ISME JOURNAL, 10(1), 253-264.
• Tripp, E. A., Lendemer, J. C., Barberan, A., Dunn, R. R., & Fierer, N. (2016). Biodiversity gradients in obligate symbiotic organisms: exploring the diversity and traits of lichen propagules across the United States. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 43(8), 1667-1678.
• Barberan, A., Dunn, R. R., Reich, B. J., Pacifici, K., Laber, E. B., Menninger, H. L., Morton, J. M., Henley, J. B., Leff, J. W., Miller, S. L., & Fierer, N. (2015). The ecology of microscopic life in household dust. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 282(1814), 212-220.
• Barberan, A., Ladau, J., Leff, J. W., Pollard, K. S., Menninger, H. L., Dunn, R. R., & Fierer, N. (2015). Continental-scale distributions of dust-associated bacteria and fungi. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 112(18), 5756-5761.
• Barberan, A., McGuire, K. L., Wolf, J. A., Jones, F. A., Wright, S. J., Turner, B. L., Essene, A., Hubbell, S. P., Faircloth, B. C., & Fierer, N. (2015). Relating belowground microbial composition to the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional trait distributions of trees in a tropical forest. ECOLOGY LETTERS, 18(12), 1397-1405.
• Grantham, N. S., Reich, B. J., Pacifici, K., Laber, E. B., Menninger, H. L., Henley, J. B., Barberan, A., Leff, J. W., Fierer, N., & Dunn, R. R. (2015). Fungi Identify the Geographic Origin of Dust Samples. PLOS ONE, 10(4).
• Leff, J. W., Jones, S. E., Prober, S. M., Barberan, A., Borer, E. T., Firn, J. L., Harpole, W. S., Hobbie, S. E., Hofmockel, K. S., Knops, J., McCulley, R. L., La, P. K., Risch, A. C., Seabloom, E. W., Schuetz, M., Steenbock, C., Stevens, C. J., & Fierer, N. (2015). Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 112(35), 10967-10972.
• Barberan, A., & Casamayor, E. O. (2014). A phylogenetic perspective on species diversity, beta-diversity and biogeography for the microbial world. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 23(23), 5868-5876.
• Barberan, A., Casamayor, E. O., & Fierer, N. (2014). The microbial contribution to macroecology. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 5.
• Barberan, A., Henley, J., Fierer, N., & Casamayor, E. O. (2014). Structure, inter-annual recurrence, and global-scale connectivity of airborne microbial communities. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 487, 187-195.
• Barberan, A., Ramirez, K. S., Leff, J. W., Bradford, M. A., Wall, D. H., & Fierer, N. (2014). Why are some microbes more ubiquitous than others? Predicting the habitat breadth of soil bacteria. ECOLOGY LETTERS, 17(7), 794-802.
• Fierer, N., Barberan, A., & Laughlin, D. C. (2014). Seeing the forest for the genes: using rnetagenomics to infer the aggregated traits of microbial communities. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 5.
• Ramirez, K. S., Leff, J. W., Barberan, A., Bates, S. T., Betley, J., Crowther, T. W., Kelly, E. F., Oldfield, E. E., Shaw, E. A., Steenbock, C., Bradford, M. A., Wall, D. H., & Fierer, N. (2014). Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 281(1795).
• Zhang, X., Barberan, A., Zhu, X., Zhang, G., & Han, X. (2014). Water Content Differences Have Stronger Effects than Plant Functional Groups on Soil Bacteria in a Steppe Ecosystem. PLOS ONE, 9(12).
• Gornish, E., Hamilton, J., Barberan, A., & Benito, B. (2013). Interdisciplinary climate change collaborations are essential for early-career scientists. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 94, 151.
• Rodriguez-Lanetty, M., Granados-Cifuentes, C., Barberan, A., Bellantuono, A. J., & Bastidas, C. (2013). Ecological Inferences from a deep screening of the Complex Bacterial Consortia associated with the coral, Porites astreoides. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 22(16), 4349-4362.
• Vila-Costa, M., Barberan, A., Auguet, J., Sharma, S., Moran, M. A., & Casamayor, E. O. (2013). Bacterial and archaeal community structure in the surface microlayer of high mountain lakes examined under two atmospheric aerosol loading scenarios. FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY, 84(2), 387-397.
• Barberan, A., Bates, S. T., Casamayor, E. O., & Fierer, N. (2012). Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities. ISME JOURNAL, 6(2), 343-351.
• Barberan, A., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Bohannan, B., & Casamayor, E. O. (2012). Exploration of community traits as ecological markers in microbial metagenomes. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 21(8), 1909-1917.
• Casamayor, E. O., Lliros, M., Picazo, A., Barberan, A., Borrego, C. M., & Camacho, A. (2012). Contribution of deep dark fixation processes to overall CO2 incorporation and large vertical changes of microbial populations in stratified karstic lakes. AQUATIC SCIENCES, 74(1), 61-75.
• Barberan, A., & Casamayor, E. O. (2011). Euxinic Freshwater Hypolimnia Promote Bacterial Endemicity in Continental Areas. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, 61(2), 465-472.
• Barberan, A., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Auguet, J., Galand, P. E., & Casamayor, E. O. (2011). Phylogenetic ecology of widespread uncultured clades of the Kingdom Euryarchaeota. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 20(9), 1988-1996.
• Auguet, J., Barberan, A., & Casamayor, E. O. (2010). Global ecological patterns in uncultured Archaea. ISME JOURNAL, 4(2), 182-190.
• Barberan, A., & Casamayor, E. O. (2010). Global phylogenetic community structure and beta-diversity patterns in surface bacterioplankton metacommunities. AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, 59(1), 1-10.

Presentations

• Barberan, A., & Gornish, E. (2021). Ecological restoration for soil health research and development lab. Dean's Research Advisory Council meeting.
• Tfaily, M., Rasmussen, C., Saez, A. E., Field, J., Barberan, A., Gornish, E., Babst-Kostecka, A., Rathke, S., & Blankinship, J. (2021). Mitigating dust pollution for climate-resilience development in arid regions. Arizona Institutes for Resilience.
• Tfaily, M., Rasmussen, C., Saez, A. E., Field, J., Barberan, A., Gornish, E., Babst-Kostecka, A., Rathke, S., Blankinship, J., Tfaily, M., Rasmussen, C., Saez, A. E., Field, J., Barberan, A., Gornish, E., Babst-Kostecka, A., Rathke, S., & Blankinship, J. (2021). Mitigating dust pollution for climate-resilient development in arid regions. Symposium on Resilience Research for Global Development ChallengesArizona Institutes for Environment.
• Chen, Y., Neilson, J. W., Kushwaha, P., Maier, R. M., & Barberan, A. (2020, August). Microbial life history strategies in arid soils. Ecology Society of America Annual Meeting. Virtual: Ecology Society of America.
• Butterfield, B. J., Maier, R. M., Barberan, A., Kushwaha, P., & Neilson, J. W. (2019, June). Linking Microbial Phylogenetics and Genetics of N-cycling Potential in Arid Soils. ASM Microbe. San Francisco, CA: American Society of Microbiology.
• Farrell, H., Barberan, A., & Gornish, E. (2019, September). How does restoration impact the soil organisms and properties of a disturbed semi-arid grassland?. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Annual Meeting.

Poster Presentations

• Barberan, A., Gornish, E., & Yang, B. (2023). Adding microbial innoculants into seedpellets: one stone, two birds? . Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Annual Meeting.
• Gornish, E., Miller, T., Barberan, A., & Spaeth, M. (2023). Soil microbial community patterns across successional dune habitats of a barrier island.. Ecological Society of American Conference.
• Gornish, E., Roche, L., Funk, J., Barberan, A., & Spaeth, M. (2023). Belowground resilience: impacts of   grazing and controlled burns on soil microbial communitie. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Annual Meeting.
• Barberan, A., Martinez-Yrizar, A., Burquez, A., Gornish, E., Touceda-Suarez, M., & Inigo, G. (2022). Influence of buffelgrass invasion on the soil microbiome under native trees in the Sonoran          Desert. Connections Across Borders.
• Meredith, L., Troch, P. A., Maier, R. M., Chorover, J. D., Neilson, J. W., Dontsova, K. M., Volkmann, T., Stegen, J., Barberan, A., & Sengupta, A. (2019, January). Structural and Functional Response of Microbial Community in an Oligotrophic Basalt Soil System to Shifts in Rainfall Regimes. Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) International Soils Meeting “Soils Across Latitudes”. San Diego, CA: Soil Science Society of America.
• Sengupta, A., Barberan, A., Stegen, J., Volkmann, T., Dontsova, K. M., Neilson, J. W., Chorover, J. D., Maier, R. M., Troch, P. A., & Meredith, L. (2018, August). Structural and functional response of incipient basaltic microbial community to shifts in soil moisture regime. Goldschmidt. Boston, MA.