Jacob West-Roberts

About Jacob West-Roberts

Jacob West-Roberts, With an exceptional h-index of 8 and a recent h-index of 8 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Berkeley, specializes in the field of Metagenomics, Phylogenetics, Conservation Biology, Biological Lanthanide Utilization.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Weathered granites and soils harbour microbes with lanthanide-dependent methylotrophic enzymes

Autotrophic biofilms sustained by deeply sourced groundwater host diverse bacteria implicated in sulfur and hydrogen metabolism

Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life

Deep-branching evolutionary intermediates reveal structural origins of form I rubisco

Tracing microbial strains to detect sample contamination in metagenomics studies

Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data

Tandem repeats in giant archaeal Borg elements undergo rapid evolution and create new intrinsically disordered regions in proteins

Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil

Jacob West-Roberts Information

University

Position

Ph.D. student

Citations(all)

213

Citations(since 2020)

198

Cited By

48

hIndex(all)

8

hIndex(since 2020)

8

i10Index(all)

7

i10Index(since 2020)

7

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Jacob West-Roberts Skills & Research Interests

Metagenomics

Phylogenetics

Conservation Biology

Biological Lanthanide Utilization

Top articles of Jacob West-Roberts

Weathered granites and soils harbour microbes with lanthanide-dependent methylotrophic enzymes

BMC biology

2024/2/19

Autotrophic biofilms sustained by deeply sourced groundwater host diverse bacteria implicated in sulfur and hydrogen metabolism

Microbiome

2024/1/26

Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life

Cell Host & Microbe

2024/1/10

Yue Clare Lou
Yue Clare Lou

H-Index: 1

Jacob West-Roberts
Jacob West-Roberts

H-Index: 2

Deep-branching evolutionary intermediates reveal structural origins of form I rubisco

Current Biology

2023/12/18

Tracing microbial strains to detect sample contamination in metagenomics studies

2023/8/28

Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data

Microbiome

2023/3/2

Tandem repeats in giant archaeal Borg elements undergo rapid evolution and create new intrinsically disordered regions in proteins

PLoS biology

2023/1/26

Rohan Sachdeva
Rohan Sachdeva

H-Index: 15

Jacob West-Roberts
Jacob West-Roberts

H-Index: 2

Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil

bioRxiv

2023

Giant genes are rare but implicated in cell wall degradation by predatory bacteria

bioRxiv

2023

Infant gut bacteriophage strain persistence during the first three years of life

bioRxiv

2023

Methanotrophic Methanoperedens archaea host diverse and interacting extrachromosomal elements

bioRxiv

2023

Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires

bioRxiv

2023

A widespread group of large plasmids in methanotrophic Methanoperedens archaea

Nature communications

2022/11/18

Rohan Sachdeva
Rohan Sachdeva

H-Index: 15

Jacob West-Roberts
Jacob West-Roberts

H-Index: 2

Borgs are giant genetic elements with potential to expand metabolic capacity

Nature

2022/10/27

Borg tandem repeats undergo rapid evolution and are under strong selection to create new intrinsically disordered regions in proteins

bioRxiv

2022/5/19

Rohan Sachdeva
Rohan Sachdeva

H-Index: 15

Jacob West-Roberts
Jacob West-Roberts

H-Index: 2

Do lanthanide-dependent microbial metabolisms drive the release of REEs from weathered granites?

bioRxiv

2022/3/9

Global genomic analysis of microbial biotransformation of arsenic highlights the importance of arsenic methylation in environmental and human microbiomes

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

2022/1/1

Ray Keren
Ray Keren

H-Index: 9

Jacob West-Roberts
Jacob West-Roberts

H-Index: 2

The Chloroflexi supergroup is metabolically diverse and representatives have novel genes for non-photosynthesis based CO2 fixation

BioRxiv

2021/8/24

Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation

BioRxiv

2021/7/10

Little genetic structure in a Bornean endemic small mammal across a steep ecological gradient

Molecular ecology

2020/11

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