Meta-Hg working group
Created in July 2020, the Meta-Hg working group aims to (i) compile and curate an up-to-date catalogue of Hg-cycling genes, (ii) establish consensus protocols to detect Hg-cycling genes from metagenomes and (iii) study the distribution of Hg-cycling microorganisms in marine ecosystems. This working group is coordinated by Eric Capo funded by the Severo Ochoa Excellence Program postdoctoral fellowship (2021-2023, CEX2019-000928-S) with advisors Andrea Garcia Bravo, Stefan Bertilsson and Erik Björn.
This interactive map shows the locations of available marine metagenomes.
Outcomes
July 2022 - Publication "A consensus protocol for the recovery of mercury methylation genes from metagenomes" Eric Capo, Benjamin D. Peterson, Minjae Kim, Daniel S. Jones, Silvia G. Acinas, Marc Amyot, Stefan Bertilsson, Erik Björn, Moritz Buck, Claudia Cosio, Dwayne A. Elias, Cynthia Gilmour, Maria Soledad Goñi Urriza, Baohua Gu, Heyu Lin, Yu-Rong Liu, Katherine McMahon, John W. Moreau, Jarone Pinhassi, Mircea Podar, Fernando Puente-Sánchez, Pablo Sánchez, Veronika Storck, Yuya Tada, Adrien Vigneron, David Walsh, Marine Vandewalle-Capo, Andrea G. Bravo, Caitlin M. Gionfriddo - Early view in Molecular Ecology Resources doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13687.
March 2022 - Release of the pipeline marky-coco. Marky-coco is a ready-to-use pipeline to detect and identify hgcAB genes from raw paired-end fastq files.
February 2022 - Poster "Towards building a consensus protocol for the recovery of the genes involved in mercury methylation (hgcAB) from environmental genomic data" - in Ocean Science Meeting 2022, virtual meeting.
January 2021 - Release of the Hg-MATE database v1.01142021. It includes a gene catalogue and tools to detect (HMM profiles) and taxomically identified (reference phylogenetic trees) potential mercury methylators (i.e., carrying hgcAB genes).
Members
- Eric Capo (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Andrea Garcia Bravo (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Stefan Bertilsson (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)
- Erik Björn (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Silvia Acinas (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Laura Alonso-Sáez (AZTI, Spain)
- Marc Amyot (Montréal University, Canada)
- Alyssa Azaroff (ACES, Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Zofia Baumann (University of Connecticut, USA)
- Katlin Bowman (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
- Tamar Barkay (Rutgers University, USA)
- Eric Boyd (Montana State University, USA)
- Moritz Buck (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)
- Ashley Bulseco (University of Chicago, USA)
- Lea Cabrol (MIO, Marseille, France)
- Christos Christakis (IMBB-FORTH, Greece)
- Claudia Cosio (Reims University, France)
- Marissa Despins (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
- Júlia Dordal Soriano (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Virginia Edgcomb (WHOI, USA)
- Dwayne Elias (Elias Consulting, USA)
- Cynthia Gilmour (SERC, USA)
- Caitlin Gionfriddo (SERC, USA)
- Marisol Goñi Urriza (SERC, USA)
- Baohua Gu (ORNL, USA)
- Chad Hammerschmidt (Wright State University, USA)
- Lars-Eric Heimbürger (MIO, Marseille, France)
- Haiyan Hu (Institute of Geochemistry, CAS, China)
- Daniel Jones (New Mexico Tech, USA)
- Sofi Jonsson (ACES, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Minjae Kim (ORNL, USA)
- Carl Lamborg (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
- Anders Lanzén (AZTI, Spain)
- Heyu Lin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Yu-Rong Liu (Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China)
- Ester López García (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Paraskevi (Vivian) Mara (WHOI, USA)
- Katherine McMahon (Madison University, USA)
- Elsa Mendes (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Maria Montero Curiel (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- John Moreau (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Silvia Newell (Wright State University, USA)
- Maria Pachiadaki (WHOI, USA)
- Carla Pereira Garcia (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Ben Peterson (University of California Davis, USA)
- Jarone Pinhassi (Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden)
- Mircea Podar (ORNL, USA)
- Alexandre Poulain (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Pablo Sánchez (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Irene Sánchez-Andrea (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
- Isabel Sanz Sáez (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Jeffra Schaefer (Rutgers University, USA)/li>
- Amina Schartup (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
- Anne Soerensen (NRM, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Lindsay Starr (Wright State University, USA)
- Veronika Storck (Montréal University, Canada)
- Yuya Tada (National Institute for Minamata Disease, Japan)
- Gordon Taylor (Stony Brook University, New York, USA)
- Daan van Vliet (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
- Laura Villanueva (NIOZ, Texel, Netherlands)
- Emilie Villar (MIO, Marseille, France)
- Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- David Walsh (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada)