Noah Fierer

Research topics

• Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology · 5 papers
• Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · 4 papers
• Gut microbiota and health · 3 papers
• Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics · 3 papers
• Urinary Tract Infections Management · 1 paper
• Reproductive tract infections research · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Rob Knight · 4 papers
• Christian L. Lauber · 3 papers
• J. Gregory Caporaso · 2 papers
• Robert B. Jackson · 2 papers
• William Anton Walters · 1 paper
• Donna Berg-Lyons · 1 paper
• Sarah M. Owens · 1 paper
• Jason R. Betley · 1 paper

Papers

1. Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platformsThe ISME Journal · 2012 · 9,303 citations

   DNA sequencing continues to decrease in cost with the Illumina HiSeq2000 generating up to 600 Gb of paired-end 100 base reads in a ten-day run. Here we present a protocol for community amplicon sequencing on the HiSeq2000 and MiSeq Illumina…

2. The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communitiesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 5,849 citations

   For centuries, biologists have studied patterns of plant and animal diversity at continental scales. Until recently, similar studies were impossible for microorganisms, arguably the most diverse and abundant group of organisms on Earth. Here, we present a continental-scale description of…

3. TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIAEcology · 2007 · 5,185 citations

   Although researchers have begun cataloging the incredible diversity of bacteria found in soil, we are largely unable to interpret this information in an ecological context, including which groups of bacteria are most abundant in different soils and why. With this…

4. Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newbornsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 4,856 citations

   Upon delivery, the neonate is exposed for the first time to a wide array of microbes from a variety of sources, including maternal bacteria. Although prior studies have suggested that delivery mode shapes the microbiota's establishment and, subsequently, its role…

5. Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soilThe ISME Journal · 2010 · 4,320 citations

   Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment (pH 4.0-8.3), in which variation in factors other than pH have been minimized, were used to investigate the direct influence of pH on the abundance and composition of the two major soil microbial…

6. Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental ScaleApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2009 · 4,145 citations

   Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding of the specific changes in soil bacterial community structure that occur across larger spatial scales is limited because most previous…