Shawn P. Brown
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Memphis
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Brown's research focuses on cross-domain microbial ecology with specific attention paid to the mechanisms of community assembly. Cross-domain microbial ecology included the integration of all microbes (fungal, bacterial, archaeal, algal, and other microorganisms) into ecological studies. Microbes are incredibly important drivers of ecosystem processes and play very influential roles in driving macro-ecological patterns and interactions. Dr. Brown's research combines traditional ecological measures with Next-Generation sequencing (NGS) to elucidate host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions.
Research Interest
Microbial Community Assembly, Optimization of NGS library generation and sequence analysis, Alpine and Nival Microbiology, Plant-Endophyte interactions.
Publications
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Brown, S.P., A. Ferrer, J. Dalling, and K.D. Heath. (2016) Don't put all your eggs in one basket: a cost-effective and powerful method to optimize primer choice for rRNA environmental community analyses using the Fluidigm Access Array. Molecular Ecology Resources 16: 946-956.
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Brown, S.P., Ungerer, M.C. and A. Jumpponen. (2016) A community of clones: snow algae are diverse communities of spatially structured clones. International Journal of Plant Sciences 177: 432-439.
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Veach, A.M., Stegen, J., Brown, S.P., Dodds, W.K., and A. Jumpponen (2016) Spatial and successional dynamics of microbial biofilm communities in a grassland stream ecosystem. Molecular Ecology 25: 4674-4688.
