{{Short description|American microbiologist (born 1958)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Edward DeLong | image = ED ANT SKI.jpg | image_size = | caption = DeLong performing fieldwork in Antarctica | birth_place = Sonoma, California, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}} | alma_mater = Santa Rosa Junior College<br />University of California, Davis <br />Scripps Institution of Oceanography | doctoral_advisor = Art Yayanos<br />Norman Pace (postdoc) | known_for = Work in metagenomics and biogeochemical cycling | field = Microbiology | work_institution = Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa }}
'''Edward Francis DeLong''' (born 1958), is a marine microbiologist and Professor Emeritus in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/|title=Department of Oceanography at UH Manoa - Home|first=Angelos K. Hannides and Kristin|last=Uyemura|website=www.soest.hawaii.edu}}</ref> and is considered a pioneer in the field of metagenomics. He is best known for his discovery of the bacterial use of the rhodopsin protein in converting sunlight to biochemical energy in marine microbial communities.
==Early life and education== DeLong was born in Sonoma, California. He studied biology at Santa Rosa Junior College and obtained an Associate of Science degree in 1980. While continuing his education at the University of California, Davis, DeLong had originally planned on becoming a medical technologist, but after a meeting and working as an undergraduate researcher with bacteriologist Paul Baumann,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Baumann |first1=Paul |last2=Baumann |first2=Linda |last3=Woolkalis |first3=Marilyn J. |last4=Bang |first4=Sookie S. |date=1983 |title=EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS IN ''VIBRIO'' AND ''PHOTOBACTERIUM'': A BASIS FOR A NATURAL CLASSIFICATION |journal=Annual Review of Microbiology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=369–398 |doi=10.1146/annurev.mi.37.100183.002101 |issn=0066-4227}}</ref> he found a new interest in marine microbiology.<ref name="delongOoA">{{cite web|url=http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/merge/pdf/OceansofArchaea.pdf |title=Oceans of Archaea |last=DeLong |first=Edward F |work=ASM News Volume 69, Number 10, 2003}}</ref> He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in bacteriology at UCD in 1982 and moved to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he received a Ph.D. in marine biology after finishing doctoral work with biophysicist Art Yayanos<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yayanos |first=A. Aristides |date=1995 |title=Microbiology to 10,500 Meters in the Deep Sea |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.mi.49.100195.004021 |journal=Annual Review of Microbiology |language=en |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=777–805 |doi=10.1146/annurev.mi.49.100195.004021 |issn=0066-4227}}</ref> in 1986. DeLong completed his postdoctoral training at Indiana University in Bloomington with Norman Pace,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yong |first=Ed |date=2017-07-20 |title=The Man Who Blew The Door Off The Microbial World |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/the-man-who-blew-the-door-off-the-microbial-world/534246/ |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> where he surveyed communities of picoplankton<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schmidt |first1=T M |last2=DeLong |first2=E F |last3=Pace |first3=N R |date=1991 |title=Analysis of a marine picoplankton community by 16S rRNA gene cloning and sequencing |journal=Journal of Bacteriology |volume=173 |issue=14 |pages=4371–4378 |doi=10.1128/jb.173.14.4371-4378.1991 |pmid=2066334 |issn=0021-9193}}</ref> via DNA sequencing.
==Work== [[File:Model of the energy generating mechanism in marine bacteria.jpg|thumbnail|right|280px|Energy gathering mechanism in marine bacteria via ''Proteorhodopsin''.]] With Pace and his group at Indiana University, DeLong developed a method that can be used to identify single cells phylogenetically through the use of phylogenetic stains.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeLong |first1=Edward F. |last2=Wickham |first2=Gene S. |last3=Pace |first3=Norman R. |date=1989-03-10 |title=Phylogenetic Stains: Ribosomal RNA-Based Probes for the Identification of Single Cells |journal=Science |volume=243 |issue=4896 |pages=1360–1363 |doi=10.1126/science.2466341 |pmid=2466341 |bibcode=1989Sci...243.1360D |issn=0036-8075}}</ref> These rRNA-based probes identify the cells based on the binding of fluorescent probes to individual cells through use of oligonucleotides that are complementary to 16S rRNA sequences of specific phylogenetic groups. The use of multiple probes with different fluorescent dyes allows for the identification of different cell types in the same field.
DeLong subsequently expanded upon this work and applied gene cloning and sequencing to the study of complex marine microbial communities and their role in the biosphere. These techniques carried significance in that microbes could be studied without the use of a standard microbial culture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=J L |last2=Marsh |first2=T L |last3=Wu |first3=K Y |last4=Shizuya |first4=H |last5=DeLong |first5=E F |date=1996 |title=Characterization of uncultivated prokaryotes: isolation and analysis of a 40-kilobase-pair genome fragment from a planktonic marine archaeon |journal=Journal of Bacteriology |volume=178 |issue=3 |pages=591–599 |doi=10.1128/jb.178.3.591-599.1996 |pmid=8550487 |pmc=177699 |issn=0021-9193}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schleper |first1=C |last2=Swanson |first2=R V |last3=Mathur |first3=E J |last4=DeLong |first4=E F |date=1997 |title=Characterization of a DNA polymerase from the uncultivated psychrophilic archaeon Cenarchaeum symbiosum |journal=Journal of Bacteriology |volume=179 |issue=24 |pages=7803–7811 |doi=10.1128/jb.179.24.7803-7811.1997 |pmid=9401041 |pmc=179745 |bibcode=1997JBact.179.7803S |issn=0021-9193}}</ref>
After receiving an independent study award in 1989, DeLong spent some time at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and would later on become associate professor in the Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. DeLong's surveys during his time at UCSB led him to participate in the study of widespread abundance and diversity of marine archaea in the world's oceans.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=DeLong |first=E F |date=1992-06-15 |title=Archaea in coastal marine environments. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=89 |issue=12 |pages=5685–5689 |doi=10.1073/pnas.89.12.5685 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1992PNAS...89.5685D |issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeLong |first1=Edward F. |last2=Wu |first2=Ke Ying |last3=Prézelin |first3=Barbara B. |last4=Jovine |first4=Raffael V. M. |date=1994 |title=High abundance of Archaea in Antarctic marine picoplankton |journal=Nature |volume=371 |issue=6499 |pages=695–697 |doi=10.1038/371695a0 |pmid=7935813 |bibcode=1994Natur.371..695D |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Preston |first1=C M |last2=Wu |first2=K Y |last3=Molinski |first3=T F |last4=DeLong |first4=E F |date=1996-06-25 |title=A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=93 |issue=13 |pages=6241–6246 |doi=10.1073/pnas.93.13.6241 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1996PNAS...93.6241P |issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hallam |first1=Steven J. |last2=Konstantinidis |first2=Konstantinos T. |last3=Putnam |first3=Nik |last4=Schleper |first4=Christa |last5=Watanabe |first5=Yoh-ichi |last6=Sugahara |first6=Junichi |last7=Preston |first7=Christina |last8=de la Torre |first8=José |last9=Richardson |first9=Paul M. |last10=DeLong |first10=Edward F. |date=2006-11-28 |title=Genomic analysis of the uncultivated marine crenarchaeote Cenarchaeum symbiosum |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=103 |issue=48 |pages=18296–18301 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0608549103 |doi-access=free |pmc=1643844 |pmid=17114289 |bibcode=2006PNAS..10318296H }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Massana |first1=R |last2=Murray |first2=A E |last3=Preston |first3=C M |last4=DeLong |first4=E F |date=1997 |title=Vertical distribution and phylogenetic characterization of marine planktonic Archaea in the Santa Barbara Channel |journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=50–56 |doi=10.1128/aem.63.1.50-56.1997 |bibcode=1997ApEnM..63...50M |issn=0099-2240}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Karner |first1=Markus B. |last2=DeLong |first2=Edward F. |last3=Karl |first3=David M. |date=2001 |title=Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean |journal=Nature |volume=409 |issue=6819 |pages=507–510 |doi=10.1038/35054051 |pmid=11206545 |bibcode=2001Natur.409..507K |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hallam |first1=Steven J |last2=Mincer |first2=Tracy J |last3=Schleper |first3=Christa |last4=Preston |first4=Christina M |last5=Roberts |first5=Katie |last6=Richardson |first6=Paul M |last7=DeLong |first7=Edward F |date=2006-03-21 |title=Pathways of Carbon Assimilation and Ammonia Oxidation Suggested by Environmental Genomic Analyses of Marine Crenarchaeota |journal=PLOS Biology |volume=4 |issue=4 |article-number=e95 |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040095 |doi-access=free |pmid=16533068 |issn=1545-7885}}</ref> Prior to 1992, archaea were thought only to exist in the extreme environments of hypersaline lakes, hydrothermal vents, and similar places.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=DeLong |first=Edward |date=1998-04-24 |title=Archaeal Means and Extremes |journal=Science |volume=280 |issue=5363 |pages=542–543 |doi=10.1126/science.280.5363.542 |bibcode=1998Sci...280..542D |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=DeLong |first=Edward F |date=1998 |title=Everything in moderation: Archaea as 'non-extremophiles' |journal=Current Opinion in Genetics & Development |volume=8 |issue=6 |pages=649–654 |doi=10.1016/s0959-437x(98)80032-4 |pmid=9914204 |issn=0959-437X}}</ref> This helped change the general view of the scientific community on the habitats and roles of archaea in the biosphere, and opened up new possibilities in applied potential of such microbial assemblages.
In the years following, DeLong's work took him to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and it is during his time there that he made a crucial discovery in the understanding of the Earth's carbon and energy cycles. A team of microbiologists led by DeLong discovered a gene in several species of bacteria responsible for production of the protein rhodopsin,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Béjà |first1=Oded |last2=Aravind |first2=L. |last3=Koonin |first3=Eugene V. |last4=Suzuki |first4=Marcelino T. |last5=Hadd |first5=Andrew |last6=Nguyen |first6=Linh P. |last7=Jovanovich |first7=Stevan B. |last8=Gates |first8=Christian M. |last9=Feldman |first9=Robert A. |last10=Spudich |first10=John L. |last11=Spudich |first11=Elena N. |last12=DeLong |first12=Edward F. |date=2000-09-15 |title=Bacterial Rhodopsin: Evidence for a New Type of Phototrophy in the Sea |journal=Science |volume=289 |issue=5486 |pages=1902–1906 |doi=10.1126/science.289.5486.1902 |pmid=10988064 |bibcode=2000Sci...289.1902B |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Béjà |first1=Oded |last2=Spudich |first2=Elena N. |last3=Spudich |first3=John L. |last4=Leclerc |first4=Marion |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F. |date=2001 |title=Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ocean |journal=Nature |volume=411 |issue=6839 |pages=786–789 |doi=10.1038/35081051 |bibcode=2001Natur.411..786B |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=de la Torre |first1=José R. |last2=Christianson |first2=Lynne M. |last3=Béjà |first3=Oded |last4=Suzuki |first4=Marcelino T. |last5=Karl |first5=David M. |last6=Heidelberg |first6=John |last7=DeLong |first7=Edward F. |date=2003-10-28 |title=Proteorhodopsin genes are distributed among divergent marine bacterial taxa |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=100 |issue=22 |pages=12830–12835 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2133554100 |doi-access=free |pmc=240704 |pmid=14566056 |bibcode=2003PNAS..10012830D }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Frigaard |first1=Niels-Ulrik |last2=Martinez |first2=Asuncion |last3=Mincer |first3=Tracy J. |last4=DeLong |first4=Edward F. |date=2006 |title=Proteorhodopsin lateral gene transfer between marine planktonic Bacteria and Archaea |journal=Nature |volume=439 |issue=7078 |pages=847–850 |doi=10.1038/nature04435 |pmid=16482157 |bibcode=2006Natur.439..847F |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Martinez |first1=A. |last2=Bradley |first2=A. S. |last3=Waldbauer |first3=J. R. |last4=Summons |first4=R. E. |last5=DeLong |first5=E. F. |date=2007-03-27 |title=Proteorhodopsin photosystem gene expression enables photophosphorylation in a heterologous host |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=104 |issue=13 |pages=5590–5595 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0611470104 |doi-access=free |pmid=17372221 |bibcode=2007PNAS..104.5590M |issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Yoshizawa |first1=Susumu |last2=Kumagai |first2=Yohei |last3=Kim |first3=Hana |last4=Ogura |first4=Yoshitoshi |last5=Hayashi |first5=Tetsuya |last6=Iwasaki |first6=Wataru |last7=DeLong |first7=Edward F. |last8=Kogure |first8=Kazuhiro |date=2014-03-31 |title=Functional characterization of flavobacteria rhodopsins reveals a unique class of light-driven chloride pump in bacteria |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=111 |issue=18 |pages=6732–6737 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1403051111 |doi-access=free |pmid=24706784 |pmc=4020065 |bibcode=2014PNAS..111.6732Y |issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Daniel K |last2=Yoshizawa |first2=Susumu |last3=Boeuf |first3=Dominique |last4=Iwasaki |first4=Wataru |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F |date=2018-04-01 |title=Proteorhodopsin variability and distribution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre |journal=The ISME Journal |language=en |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=1047–1060 |doi=10.1038/s41396-018-0074-4 |issn=1751-7362 |pmc=5864233 |pmid=29476140 |bibcode=2018ISMEJ..12.1047O }}</ref> previously unheard of in the domain Bacteria. These proteins found in the cell membranes are capable of converting light energy to biochemical energy due to a change in configuration of the rhodopsin molecule as sunlight strikes it, causing the pumping of a proton from inside out and a subsequent inflow that generates the energy.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeLong |first1=Edward F. |last2=Béjà |first2=Oded |date=2010-04-27 |title=The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times |journal=PLOS Biology |language=en |volume=8 |issue=4 |article-number=e1000359 |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000359 |doi-access=free |issn=1545-7885 |pmc=2860490 |pmid=20436957}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pinhassi |first1=Jarone |last2=DeLong |first2=Edward F. |last3=Béjà |first3=Oded |last4=González |first4=José M. |last5=Pedrós-Alió |first5=Carlos |date=2016 |title=Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology |url=https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/MMBR.00003-16 |journal=Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews |language=en |volume=80 |issue=4 |pages=929–954 |doi=10.1128/MMBR.00003-16 |pmid=27630250 |bibcode=2016MMBR...80..929P |issn=1092-2172}}</ref> While at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, DeLong and his group also made some seminal discoveries about the Archaea and Bacteria involved in the then mysterious process of anoxic oxidation of methane within marine sediments.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hinrichs |first1=Kai-Uwe |last2=Hayes |first2=John M. |last3=Sylva |first3=Sean P. |last4=Brewer |first4=Peter G. |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F. |date=1999 |title=Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments |journal=Nature |volume=398 |issue=6730 |pages=802–805 |doi=10.1038/19751 |pmid=10235261 |bibcode=1999Natur.398..802H |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Orphan |first1=Victoria J. |last2=House |first2=Christopher H. |last3=Hinrichs |first3=Kai-Uwe |last4=McKeegan |first4=Kevin D. |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F. |date=2001-07-20 |title=Methane-Consuming Archaea Revealed by Directly Coupled Isotopic and Phylogenetic Analysis |journal=Science |volume=293 |issue=5529 |pages=484–487 |doi=10.1126/science.1061338 |pmid=11463914 |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Orphan |first1=Victoria J. |last2=House |first2=Christopher H. |last3=Hinrichs |first3=Kai-Uwe |last4=McKeegan |first4=Kevin D. |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F. |date=2002-05-14 |title=Multiple archaeal groups mediate methane oxidation in anoxic cold seep sediments |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=99 |issue=11 |pages=7663–7668 |doi=10.1073/pnas.072210299 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hallam |first1=Steven J. |last2=Girguis |first2=Peter R. |last3=Preston |first3=Christina M. |last4=Richardson |first4=Paul M. |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F. |date=2003 |title=Identification of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase A ( ''mcrA'' ) Genes Associated with Methane-Oxidizing Archaea |journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology |volume=69 |issue=9 |pages=5483–5491 |doi=10.1128/aem.69.9.5483-5491.2003 |pmid=12957937 |pmc=194966 |bibcode=2003ApEnM..69.5483H |issn=0099-2240}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hallam |first1=Steven J. |last2=Putnam |first2=Nik |last3=Preston |first3=Christina M. |last4=Detter |first4=John C. |last5=Rokhsar |first5=Daniel |last6=Richardson |first6=Paul M. |last7=DeLong |first7=Edward F. |date=2004-09-03 |title=Reverse Methanogenesis: Testing the Hypothesis with Environmental Genomics |journal=Science |volume=305 |issue=5689 |pages=1457–1462 |doi=10.1126/science.1100025 |pmid=15353801 |bibcode=2004Sci...305.1457H |issn=0036-8075}}</ref>
In 2004, DeLong moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on further developing functional metagenomic surveys,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeLong |first1=Edward F. |last2=Preston |first2=Christina M. |last3=Mincer |first3=Tracy |last4=Rich |first4=Virginia |last5=Hallam |first5=Steven J. |last6=Frigaard |first6=Niels-Ulrik |last7=Martinez |first7=Asuncion |last8=Sullivan |first8=Matthew B. |last9=Edwards |first9=Robert |last10=Brito |first10=Beltran Rodriguez |last11=Chisholm |first11=Sallie W. |last12=Karl |first12=David M. |date=2006-01-27 |title=Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior |journal=Science |volume=311 |issue=5760 |pages=496–503 |doi=10.1126/science.1120250 |pmid=16439655 |bibcode=2006Sci...311..496D |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Konstantinidis |first1=Konstantinos T. |last2=Braff |first2=Jennifer |last3=Karl |first3=David M. |last4=DeLong |first4=Edward F. |date=2009-08-15 |title=Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of a Microbial Community Residing at a Depth of 4,000 Meters at Station ALOHA in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre |journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology |volume=75 |issue=16 |pages=5345–5355 |doi=10.1128/aem.00473-09 |pmid=19542347 |pmc=2725473 |bibcode=2009ApEnM..75.5345K |issn=0099-2240}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Martinez |first1=Asuncion |last2=Tyson |first2=Gene W. |last3=DeLong |first3=Edward F. |date=2009-12-29 |title=Widespread known and novel phosphonate utilization pathways in marine bacteria revealed by functional screening and metagenomic analyses |journal=Environmental Microbiology |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=222–238 |doi=10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02062.x |pmid=19788654 |issn=1462-2912}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=McSorley |first1=Fern R. |last2=Wyatt |first2=Peter B. |last3=Martinez |first3=Asuncion |last4=DeLong |first4=Edward F. |last5=Hove-Jensen |first5=Bjarne |last6=Zechel |first6=David L. |date=2012-05-11 |title=PhnY and PhnZ Comprise a New Oxidative Pathway for Enzymatic Cleavage of a Carbon–Phosphorus Bond |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=134 |issue=20 |pages=8364–8367 |doi=10.1021/ja302072f |bibcode=2012JAChS.134.8364M |issn=0002-7863}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fontanez |first1=Kristina M. |last2=Eppley |first2=John M. |last3=Samo |first3=Ty J. |last4=Karl |first4=David M. |last5=DeLong |first5=Edward F. |date=2015-05-19 |title=Microbial community structure and function on sinking particles in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre |journal=Frontiers in Microbiology |volume=6 |doi=10.3389/fmicb.2015.00469 |doi-access=free |issn=1664-302X |pmc=4436931 |pmid=26042105}}</ref> as well as gene expression studies targeting microbial communities in the wild. At MIT, his collaborations with CMORE and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute colleagues, he discovered of highly synchronized microbial populations having diurnal, coordinated patterns of gene oscillating expression across many species and in different habitats.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shi |first1=Yanmei |last2=Tyson |first2=Gene W. |last3=DeLong |first3=Edward F. |date=2009 |title=Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean's water column |journal=Nature |volume=459 |issue=7244 |pages=266–269 |doi=10.1038/nature08055 |pmid=19444216 |bibcode=2009Natur.459..266S |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=McCarren |first1=Jay |last2=Becker |first2=Jamie W. |last3=Repeta |first3=Daniel J. |last4=Shi |first4=Yanmei |last5=Young |first5=Curtis R. |last6=Malmstrom |first6=Rex R. |last7=Chisholm |first7=Sallie W. |last8=DeLong |first8=Edward F. |date=2010-09-21 |title=Microbial community transcriptomes reveal microbes and metabolic pathways associated with dissolved organic matter turnover in the sea |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=107 |issue=38 |pages=16420–16427 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1010732107 |doi-access=free |pmc=2944720 |pmid=20807744}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stewart |first1=Frank J. |last2=Ulloa |first2=Osvaldo |last3=DeLong |first3=Edward F. |date=2011-01-07 |title=Microbial metatranscriptomics in a permanent marine oxygen minimum zone |journal=Environmental Microbiology |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=23–40 |doi=10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02400.x |pmid=21210935 |issn=1462-2912}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ottesen |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Young |first2=Curtis R. |last3=Eppley |first3=John M. |last4=Ryan |first4=John P. |last5=Chavez |first5=Francisco P. |last6=Scholin |first6=Christopher A. |last7=DeLong |first7=Edward F. |date=2013-01-23 |title=Pattern and synchrony of gene expression among sympatric marine microbial populations |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=110 |issue=6 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1222099110 |doi-access=free |pmid=23345438 |issn=0027-8424}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ottesen |first1=EA |last2=Young |first2=CR |last3=Gifford |first3=SM |last4=Eppley |first4=JM |last5=Marin |first5=R 3rd |last6=Schuster |first6=SC |last7=Scholin |first7=CA |last8=DeLong |first8=EF |year=2014 |title=Ocean microbes. 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Virginia |last15=Caron |first15=David A. |date=2017-07-31 |title=Coordinated regulation of growth, activity and transcription in natural populations of the unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2017118 |journal=Nature Microbiology |language=en |volume=2 |issue=9 |article-number=17118 |doi=10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.118 |bibcode=2017NatMb...217118W |issn=2058-5276}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Aylward |first1=Frank O. |last2=Boeuf |first2=Dominique |last3=Mende |first3=Daniel R. |last4=Wood-Charlson |first4=Elisha M. |last5=Vislova |first5=Alice |last6=Eppley |first6=John M. |last7=Romano |first7=Anna E. |last8=DeLong |first8=Edward F. |date=2017-10-24 |title=Diel cycling and long-term persistence of viruses in the ocean's euphotic zone |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=43 |pages=11446–11451 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1714821114 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017PNAS..11411446A |issn=0027-8424}}</ref> In 2014, DeLong relocated to the University of Hawaii, where he served as co-director for the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, C-MORE<ref>{{cite web |title=Center for Microbial Oceanography – Research and Education |url=http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu |website=cmore.soest.hawaii.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeLong |first1=Edward F. |last2=Karl |first2=David M. |date=2005-09-14 |title=Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography |journal=Nature |volume=437 |issue=7057 |pages=336–342 |doi=10.1038/nature04157 |pmid=16163343 |bibcode=2005Natur.437..336D |issn=0028-0836}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=DeLong |first=Edward F. |date=2009 |title=The microbial ocean from genomes to biomes |journal=Nature |volume=459 |issue=7244 |pages=200–206 |doi=10.1038/nature08059 |bibcode=2009Natur.459..200D |issn=0028-0836}}</ref> and the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology, SCOPE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scope.soest.hawaii.edu|title=Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE)|website=scope.soest.hawaii.edu}}</ref> From 2016 - 2022, DeLong also served as the Vice President, President, and Past President of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).
==Honoraria, fellowships, and memberships== *Honorary Professorship, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1999–2002 *Elected Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology, August 2000 *Moore Investigator in Marine Microbiology, August, 2004 *Elected Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, May 2005 *In April 2008, DeLong was presented with the Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal for "important contributions to geomicrobiology and biogeochemical cycling through the innovative use of molecular tools and a genomic approach" at the European Geosciences Union *[https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/edward-f-delong-bsf8yg/ Elected Fellow] in the National Academy of Sciences, April 2008 *The American Society for Microbiology presented DeLong with the Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology in May 2008 and the D.C. White Research and Mentoring Award in February 2009 *Elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011 *UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award, UC Davis, 2012 *Moore Investigator in Marine Microbiology, 2012 *A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences, 2014 *Elected Member in the European Molecular Biology Association EMBO, 2015 *Elected President of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)
==See also== {{scholia}} *Thermoproteota *Proteorhodopsin
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160405060014/http://eddelong.mit.edu/ DeLong Research Group Official Website] *[http://cee.mit.edu/delong Edward DeLong faculty page at MIT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430231344/http://cee.mit.edu/delong |date=2011-04-30 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110727003042/http://pdfcast.org/pdf/edward-delong-curriculum-vitae Edward DeLong Curriculum Vitae] *[http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/faculty/DeLong.html DeLong University of Hawaii]
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