Publications (Google Scholar page)

career citation metrics: 587 citations, h-index= 10, i10-index= 10

2023

Henson, M.W. and Thrash, J.C. Microbial ecology of coastal northern Gulf of Mexico waters. 2023. In Review: mSystems. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.17.567634

Getz, E.W., Lanclos, V.C., Henson, M.W., Beja, Oded, Faircloth, B.C., Thrash, J.C.The Aegean-169 clade of bacterioplankton is synonymous with SAR11 subclade V and metabolically distinct. 2023. Msystems (2023): e00179-23. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.22.529538

Lanclos, V.C., Henson, M.W., Rasmussen, A., Francis, C., Thrash, J.C. 2023. Ecophysiology and genomics of the brackish water adapted SAR11 subclade IIIa. The ISME Journal 17, no. 4 (2023): 620-629. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01376-2

2022

Swanson, M.T., Henson, M.W., Handika, H., Achmadi, A.S., Anita, S., Rowe, K.C., Esselstyn, J.A. 2022. Mycoplasmataceae taxa drive microbial community composition differences between gut regions in an assemblage of Crocidura shrews. Journal of Mammalogy, gyac098. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac098.

2021

Zehnpfennig, J.R., Garber, A.I., Sheik, C.S., Henson, M.W., Ramírez, G.A., Mahon, A.R., Halanych, K.M, and Learman, D.R. 2021. Metagenomics of Antarctic continental shelf sediment demonstrates a diverse potential for chemolithoautotrophic metabolism. Msphere, 6(6), pp.e00770-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00770-21U.

Savoie E.R.*, Lanclos, V.C., Henson, M.W., Cheng, C., Getz, E.W., Barnes, S.J., LaRowe, D.E., Rappé M.S., and Thrash, J.C. 2021. Ecophysiology of the cosmopolitan OM252 bacterioplankton (Gammaproteobacteria). mSystems 6(3), e0027621. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00276-21.

Feng, X., Chu, X., Qian, Y., Henson, M.W., Lanclos, V.C., Qin, F., Zhao, Y., Thrash, J.C. and Luo, H., 2021. Mechanisms Driving Genome Reduction of a Novel Roseobacter Lineage Showing Vitamin B12 Auxotrophy. The ISME Journal 15 (12), 3576-3586. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01036-3.

2020

Henson, M.W., Lanclos, V.C., Pitre, D.M.*, Weckhorst, J.L.*, Lucchesi, A.M.*, Cheng, C., Temperton, B. and Thrash, J.C., 2020. Expanding the diversity of bacterioplankton isolates and modeling isolation efficacy with large scale dilution-to-extinction cultivation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86, e00943-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00943-20.

2019

Learman, D.R., Ahmand, Z., Brookshier, A., Henson, M.W., Hewitt, V., Lis, A., Morrison, C., Robinson, A., Todaro, E., Wologo, E., Wynne, S., Alm, E.W., Kourtev, P.S., Santo Domingo, J.W. (2019). Comparative genomics of 16 Microbacterium spp. that tolerate multiple heavy metals and antibiotics. PeerJ 6, e6258. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6258

2018

Craine, J., M. W. Henson, J. C. Thrash, J. Hanssen, G. Spooner, P. Fleming, M. Pukonen, F. Stahr, S. Spaulding, and N. Fierer. (2018). Environmental DNA reveals the structure of phytoplankton assemblages along a 2900-km transect in the Mississippi River. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/261727

Henson M.W., Hanssen J, Spooner G, Flemming P, Pukonen M, Stahr F, Thrash, J.C. (2018). Microbial regime changes and indicators of eutrophication on the Mississippi River identified via a human-powered 2900 km transect. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 1837-1855. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10811

Henson, M.W., Lanclos, V.C.*, Faircloth, B.C., Thrash, J.C. (2018). Cultivation and genomics of the first freshwater SAR11 (LD12) isolate. ISME Journal, 12, 1846–1860. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0092-2

2016

Henson, M.W., Pitre, D.M.*, Weckhorst, J.L*., Lanclos, V.C.*, Webber, A.T., Thrash, J.C. (2016). Artificial seawater media facilitates cultivating members of the microbial majority from the Gulf of Mexico. mSphere 1(2), e00028-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00028-16. **Editor’s pick

Learman, D.R., Henson, M.W., Thrash, J.C., Temperton, B., Brannock, P., Mahon, A., Halanych, K.H. (2016). Biogeochemical and microbial variation across 5500 km of Antarctic surface sediment implicates organic matter as a driver of benthic community structure. Frontiers in Microbiology: Aquatic Microbiology, 7(284). doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00284

Ni, C., Horton, D. J., Rui, J., Henson, M.W., Jiang, Y., Huang, X., & Learman, D. R. (2016). High concentrations of bioavailable heavy metals impact freshwater sediment microbial communities. Annals of Microbiology, 66, 1003–1012. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-015-1189-8

2015

Henson M.W., Santo Domingo J.W., Kourtev P.S., Jensen R.V., Dunn J.A., Learman D.R. (2015) Metabolic and genomic analysis elucidates strain-level variation in Microbacterium spp. isolated from chromate contaminated sediment. PeerJ 3, e1395 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1395

2013

Ryu, H., Henson, M., Elk, M., Toledo-Hernandez, C., Griffith, J., Blackwood, D., Noble, R., Gourmelon, M., Glassmeyer, S., and Santo Domingo, J. (2013). Development of quantitative PCR assays targeting 16S rRNA gene of Enterococcus spp. and their application to the identification of Enterococcus species in environmental samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79(1), 196-204; doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02802-12

*Undergraduate mentees

Genome Announcements

7. Phillips, E.K., Shaffer, J.M., Henson, M.W., Coelho, J.T., Martin, M.O. and Thrash, J.C.Genome sequences of four agarolytic bacteria from the Bacteroidia and Gammaproteobacteria. 2023. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 12(11), pp.e00667-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00667-23

6. Stapelfeldt, A.M., Barnes, S.J., Henson, M.W., Thrash, J.C. Draft Genome Sequence of the marine Flavobacteriaceae sp. strain LSUCC0859. 2022. Microbiology Resource Announcements 11(5), e0018622. doi: https//doi.org/10.1128/mra.00186-22.

5. Lucchesi A.M.*, Henson M.W., Temperton B, Thrash J.C. 2020. Complete genome sequence of Marinobacterium sp. strain LSUCC0821, isolated from the coastal Gulf of Mexico. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9(49), e01035-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01035-20.

4. Henson, M.W., Guidry, M.E.*, Carnes, M.K.*, Thrash, J.C. (2020). Draft genome sequence of the novel coastal bacterium LSUCC0115 from the MWH-UniPo clade, Order Burkholderiales, Class Betaproteobacteria. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9(2), e01492-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01492-19

3. Lanclos, V.C.*, Henson, M.W., Dorion, C., Thrash, J.C. (2019). Draft genome of strain LSUCC0057, a member of the SAR92 clade of Gammaproteobacteria. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(25), e00599-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01231-16

2. Coelho, J.T., Henson, M.W., Thrash, J.C. (2019). Draft genome sequence of strain LSUCC0112, a Gulf of Mexico representative of the Oligotrophic Marine Gammaproteobacteria. Microbiology resource announcements, 8(27), e00521-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00521-19

1. Lanclos, V.C.*, Henson, M.W., Pitre, D.M.*, Thrash, J.C. (2016). Draft genome sequence of strain LSUCC0135, an early diverging member of the order Methylophilales in the phylum Betaproteobacteria. Genome announcements, 4(6), e01231-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01231-16.