Susan Brawley, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Phone: 207.581.2973

Address:
321 Hitchner Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5741

Education

Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

Description

Professor Emerita of Plant Biology & Marine Biology. Susan Brawley continues her funded research on the red algal cytoskeleton and the macroalgal microbiome of intertidal algae, service on Editorial Boards, etc. She will not be accepting any new graduate students.

Research Topics

Phycology, Ecology, Cell Biology, Aquaculture

Publications

Wells, M., Potin, P., Craigie, J., Raven, J., Merchant, S., Helliwell, K.,
Smith, A., Camire, M. & S. H. Brawley. 2017. Algae as nutritional and functional food
sources: Revisiting our understanding. J. Appl.Phycol. 29: 949-982. doi:10.1007/s10811-
016-0974-5.
Brawley, S. H., Nicolas A. Blouin, Elizabeth Ficko-Blean, Glen L. Wheeler, Martin Lohr, Holly V. Goodson, Jerry W. Jenkins, Crysten E. Blaby-Haas, Katherine E. Helliwell, Cheong Xin Chan, Tara Marriage, Debashish Bhattacharya, Anita S. Klein, Yacine Badis, Juliet Brodie, Yuanyu Cao, Jonas Collén, Simon M. Dittami, Claire M. M. Gachon, Beverley R. Green, Steven J. Karpowicz, Jay W. Kim, Ulrich Johan Kudahl, Senjie Lin, Gurvan Michel, Maria Mittag, Bradley J. S. C. Olson, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Yi Peng, Huan Qiu, Shengqiang Shu, John T. Singer, Alison G. Smith, Brittany N. Sprecher, Volker Wagner, Wenfei Wang, Zhi-Yong Wang, Juying Yan, Charles Yarish, Simone Zäuner-Riek, Yunyun Zhuang, Yong Zou, Erika A. Lindquist, Jane Grimwood, Kerrie Barry, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Jeremy Schmutz, John W. Stiller, Arthur R. Grossman, Simon E. Prochnik. 2017. Insights into the red algae and eukaryotic evolution from the genome of Porphyra umbilicalis (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 114(31):E6361- E6370 (Includes 106 page SI Appendix).
Capistrant-Fossa, K., Morrison, H. G., Engelen, A. H., Quigley, C. T. C., Morozov, A., Serrão,
E. A., Brodie, J. A., Gachon, C. M. M., Badis, Y., Johnson, L. E., Hoarau, G., Stearns, L.,
Brawley, S. H. 2021. The microbiome of a habitat-forming brown alga, Fucus
vesiculosus, has similar cross-Atlantic structure and drivers. The Journal of Phycology
57(6):1681-1698. doi/10.1111/jpy.13194.
Capistrant-Fossa, K. & S. H. Brawley. 2019. Unexpected reproductive traits of Grateloupia turuturu revealed by its resistance to bleach-based biosecurity protocols. Botanica Marina 62: 76-83.
Bricknell, I., Birkel, S., Brawley, S. H., Van Kirk, T., Hamlin, H., Capistrant-Fossa, K., Huguenard, K., Van Walsum, G., Liu, Z. L., Zhu, L. H., Grebe, G., Taccardi, E., Miller, M., Preziosi, B. M., Duffy, K., Byron, C. J., Quigley, C. T. C., Bowden, T. J., Brady, D., Beal, B., Sappati, P. K., Johnson, T. R. & S. Moeykens. 2020. Resilience of cold water aquaculture: A review of likely scenarios as climate changes in the Gulf of Maine. Reviews in Aquaculture doi.org/10.1111/raq.12483.
Quigley, C. T. C., Capistrant-Fossa, K., Morrison, H., Morozov, A., Johnson, L. J., Hertzberg, V. & S. H. Brawley. 2020. Bacterial communities show algal host (Fucus spp.)/zone differentiation across the stress gradient of the intertidal zone. Front. Microbiol. 11:563118. doi:10.3389/fmichb.2020.563118.
Nayfach, S., Roux, S., Seshadri, R., Udwary, D., Varghese, N., Schulz, F., Wu, D., Paez-Espino, J., Chen, I-M, Huntemann, M., Palaniappan, K., Ladau J., Mukherjee, S., Reddy, T. B. K., Nielsen T., Kirton, E., Fara, J. P., Edirisinghe, J. N., Henry, C. S., Jungbluth, S. P., Chivian, D. Dehal, P., Wood-Charlson, E. M., Arkin, A. P., Tringe, S., Visel, A., IMG/M Data Consortium (Named co-authors include Brawley, S. H.), Woyke, T., Mouncey, N. J., Ivanova, N. N., Kyrpides, N. C., Eloe-Fadrosh, E. A. 2020. A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0718-6
Goodson, H. V., Kelley, J. B., Brawley, S. H. 2021. Cytoskeletal diversification across 1 billion years: What red algae can teach us about the cytoskeleton, and vice versa. BioEssays (in press).
Nayfach, S., Roux, S., Seshadri, R., Udwary, D., Varghese, N., Schulz, F., Wu, D., Paez-Espino,
J., Chen, I-M, Huntemann, M., Palaniappan, K., Ladau J., Mukherjee, S., Reddy, T. B.
K., Nielsen T., Kirton, E., Fara, J. P., Edirisinghe, J. N., Henry, C. S., Jungbluth, S. P.,
Chivian, D. Dehal, P., Wood-Charlson, E. M., Arkin, A. P., Tringe, S., Visel, A., IMG/M
Data Consortium (Named co-authors include Brawley, S. H.), Woyke, T., Mouncey, N.
J., Ivanova, N. N., Kyrpides, N. C., Eloe-Fadrosh, E. A. 2021. A genomic catalog of
Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-
020-0718-6
Goodson, H. V., Kelley, J. B., Brawley, S. H. 2021. Cytoskeletal diversification across 1 billion
years: What red algae can teach us about the cytoskeleton, and vice versa. BioEssays 43,
10.1002/bies.202000278.
Capistrant-Fossa, K., Morrison, H. G., Engelen, A. H., Quigley, C. T. C., Morozov, A., Serrão,
E. A., Brodie, J. A., Gachon, C. M. M., Badis, Y., Johnson, L. E., Hoarau, G., Stearns, L.,
Brawley, S. H. 2021. The microbiome of a habitat-forming brown alga, Fucus
vesiculosus, has similar cross-Atlantic structure and drivers. The Journal of Phycology
57(6):1681-1698. doi/10.1111/jpy.13194.
Fremin, B. J., Bhatt, A. S., Kyrpides, N. C., Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-
smORF) Consortium (including Brawley, S. H.) 2022. Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes. Cell Reports 39 (12):110984.
Brawley, S. H.*, Lu, S., Pang, S. J., Yarish, C. 2023. Remembering Xiugeng Fei. PSA Newsletter
Winter/Spring Issue (2023).
Pavlopoulos, G. A., Baltoumas, F.A., Liu, S., Selvitopi, O., Camargo, A. P., Nayfach S, Azad,
A., Roux, S., Call, L., Ivanova, N. N., Chen, I. M., Paez-Espino, Karatzas, E., Novel
Metagenome Protein Families Consortium (listing Susan H. Brawley and 128 others as
authors of the paper), Iliopoulos, I., Konstantinidis, K., Tiedje, J. M., Pett-Ridge, J.,
Baker, D., Visel, A., Ouzounis, C. A., Ovchinnikor, S., Buluç, A., Krypides, N. C. 2023.
Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature 622, 594-
623.