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 * Sameh Ali - Egyptian physical chemist and Director of the Center for Aging and Associated Diseases at Zewail City of Science and Technology
 * Steven Allain - British herpetologist who among other accomplishments recently described Pseudoacanthocephalus goodmani
 * David Apirion (deceased) - American molecular biologist; professor at Washington University
 * Shelton P. Applegate (Shelton Applegate) - described Orectolobiformes, the order of carpet sharks
 * Victor V. Arshavsky (V. V. Arshavsky, Victor Arshavsky) - author of the "search activity" concept;
 * Hirotoshi Asano - described Gnathophis nystromi
 * S. A. Barnett, There was a not-so-kind exchange between him and Robin Dunbar in New Scientist   about Barnett's last book.
 * Stepan Ivanovich Basilewsky - described and named the Mongolian redfin (Chanodichthys mongolicus) in 1855
 * Julian Bayliss, (PhD, MSc, BSc) Conservation Biologist, Landscape Ecologist, Zoologist, & Lepidopterist. Found an rainforest with no record in Mozambique using Google maps.
 * John Beattie (biologist) (disambiguation needed) -
 * J. Nick Benardini (also publishes as James N. Benardini, James N. Benardini III, and James Benardini) – microbiologist, 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers winner, exobiologist. ]; ; ; ; ; ; ; []
 * Kinattum Kara Bineesh - one of the people who gave the Arabian barracuda the binomial name Sphyraena arabiansis
 * Keith Bishop (biologist) (born 1916) - Australian biologist -
 * Nat Bletter -
 * Richard Bliss Jr. - described the elegant moray eel in 1883
 * Charles Marcus Breder Jr. - described the broadnose worm eel and dubious conger among other species
 * Peter Bretscher - Prominent Immunologist. Son of Egon Bretscher a promient physicist, brother of Mark and Anthony Bretscher, both prominent cell biologists.
 * Alberto Brito - described the Canary moray in 1987 alongside E. B. Böhlke
 * Eran Brokovich - described Gymnothorax baranesi in 2008 alongside D. G. Smith and Shai Einbinder
 * Derek Bromhall - British biochemist;

C-E

 * Elizabeth E. Cameron (Elizabeth Cameron) - named Morelia bredli alongside Harold and Heather M. Cogger
 * Kenneth Caster - conclusively demonstrated that unusual fossil tracks from the Solnhofen lithographic limestone variously attributed to creatures like Archaeopteryx, little dinosaurs, or pterosaurs were actually made by horseshoe crabs, as specimens had been found literally "dead in their tracks" - see Timeline of pterosaur research
 * Sheeraz Chandio - Sindh zoologist;
 * Gyaneshwer Chaubey -Professor in BHU
 * Zachary Cheviron - Professor at University of Montana; has lab named after him ZAC
 * Justin A. Chidlow (Justin Chidlow) - gave the floral banded wobbegong the binomial name Orectolobus floridus, gave the western wobbegong the binomial name Orectolobus hutchinsi, gave the dwarf spotted wobbegong the binomial name Orectolobus parvimaculatus
 * Frank S. Cliff (Frank Cliff) - described the Santa Catalina rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis)
 * Reginald Bifield Cocroft III - gave spring peepers the binomial name Hyla crucifer
 * Heather M. Cogger (Heather Cogger) - named Morelia bredli alongside Harold Cogger and Elizabeth E. Cameron
 * Marie Connett - Ph.D., MBA; botanist and author, projects in developing countries, over 80 patents
 * Richard Allen "Bo" Crombet-Beolens (Beolens B) - author of The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
 * John E. Cronan, Ph.D. '68, Biochemistry. Lipid metabolism research; member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2017 inductee)
 * Ian Francis Bell Common - Australian Lepidopterist
 * Montague Hughes Crackanthorpe (born Cookson) (1832–1913) - mathematician and eugenicist; ;
 * S. K. Dash - Distinguished microbiologist and probiotic entrepreneur
 * Alfonso León de Garay Castro - Radiobiologist; Ambassador
 * Diógenes de Almeida Campos - named and described the genus Tupuxuara in 1988, alongside Alexander Kellner
 * Félix António de Brito Capello - named and described many genuses and species of sleeper sharks, usually alongside José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
 * Pedro Gregorio de Echandía Jiménez (1746–1817) -
 * Ignacio J. de la Riva (Ignacio de la Riva) - described and named the Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) in 1994
 * Gonzalo G. de Polavieja (Gonzalo de Polavieja) - Neuroscientist originally trained in physics
 * Donald DeAngelis - theoretical ecologist
 * Terry C. DeFino (Terry DeFino) - gave the Burmese bamboo shark the binomial name Chiloscyllium burmensis
 * Luis Fernando Del-Moral-Flores - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
 * Esther Amelia Dick (E.A.Dick) - placed Hydnellum peckii in the genus Calodon in 1956
 * J. David Dickman - Ph.D.; professor of neurobiology, Washington University in Saint Louis
 * Guido Dingerkus - named the genus Pseudoginglymostoma, gave the Burmese bamboo shark the binomial name Chiloscyllium burmensis
 * Robert Dorit - professor of biology, Smith College
 * Pol Doti - molecular biologist
 * Christine L. Dudgeon (Christine Dudgeon) - gave the Halmahera epaulette shark the binomial name Hemiscyllium halmahera
 * Ryu Doiuchi - named Sphyraena iburiensis
 * Frank C. Dukepoo (Frank Dukepoo) - Hopi Indian; first Native American to obtain a Ph.D. in genetics; one of the very few Native Americans to work actively in the field of natural sciences
 * Paul Duprex - American virologist originally from Northern Ireland during the height of "The Troubles," current director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh, heavily featured in the media for his COVID-19 vaccine research.
 * George Francis Eaton - see the timeline of pterosaur research
 * Friedrich Eichlam - botanist
 * Shai Einbinder - described Gymnothorax baranesi in 2008 alongside D. G. Smith and Eran Brokovich
 * Mark V. Erdmann (Mark Erdmann) - gave the Cenderawasih epaulette shark the binomial name Hemiscyllium galei, gave the Triton epaulette shark the binomial name Hemiscyllium henryi
 * Stephe Eubank
 * Michael Everhart - paleontologist - see timeline of pterosaur research

F-H

 * Luigi Facciolà - described Dysomma brevirostre, the pignosed arrowtooth eel or batnose eel, in 1887
 * Alex Fain - named and described the Gastronyssidae family of mites in 1956
 * Kristian Fauchald - polychaete researcher;
 * John E. Fitch (1918&nash;1982) - American marine biologist; author; director of the US Fisheries Laboratory; provided specimens of Octopus fitchi Berry, 1953 and Terebra fitchi Berry, 1958; published about bivalves and fishes [Penitella fitchi Turner, 1955]; ;
 * Nate Flesness - leader of the Zoological Information Management System - see Species360
 * Michelle Fournet (Humpback whale acoustic ecologist and subject of the documentary film "Fathom")
 * Gottfried Fraenkel -
 * John Patrick Friel - described Acanthobunocephalus nicoi -
 * Cyril Reed Funk (Cyril R. Funk) - ;
 * Dimas Fernández Galiano (1921–2002)
 * Pjotr Garjajev - Russian biologist, biophysicist
 * Stefan Jan Filip Gorzula - gave Boddaert's tropical racer the binomial name Mastigodryas boddaerti
 * Tomoaki Goto - gave the ginger carpetshark the binomial name Parascyllium sparsimaculatum
 * Gavin Gouws - described Upeneus heemstra, the Heemstra goatfish
 * Graeme Francis Gow - described Morelia bredli
 * Michael Grayson (Grayson M) - author of The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
 * Ferdinand Cecil Greatrex - British diplomat, whose name abbreviation given as Greatrex is used after the names of described by him orchid species
 * Evhen P. Gubanov (Evhen Gubanov) - gave the Arabian carpetshark the binomial name Chiloscyllium arabicum
 * Kevan Harold - American endochrinologist
 * Johann Moritz David Herold - entomologist;
 * Kay E. Holekamp (Kay Holekamp) - Behavioral ecologist, Spotted hyena specialist, Professor at Michigan State University;
 * Rob Horsch - pioneer of DNA modification and GM foods; formerly at Monsanto; with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; seen in BBC documentary DNA 2/5 playing god
 * Ho Hsuan-Ching - described Echelus polyspondylus
 * Rob Horsch - pioneer of DNA modification and GM foods; formerly at Monsanto; with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; seen in BBC documentary DNA 2/5 playing god
 * Ho Hsuan-Ching - described Echelus polyspondylus

I-K

 * Modest Mikhaĭlovich Iljin - described and named the genus Hammada
 * Karl Illmensee
 * Toshio Ito - (1904-1991) Japanese cell biologist, discovered hepatic stellate cells (HSCs, also called Ito cells).
 * Toni Jackman - possible anthrpologist, primatologist, candidate Leakey's Angels for bonobos;
 * Olivier Peebles Jenkins - named Sphyraena helleri
 * King Jordan (biologist) - associate professor, Georgia Tech;
 * Alexandre Jost - French biologist;
 * Gandhiv Kafle - Nepalese wetland ecologist;
 * Toshiji Kamohara - gave the saddle carpetshark the binomial name Cirrhoscyllium japonicum
 * Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya - marine biologist, described Facciolella castlei and Nettastoma falcinaris with Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin and Kenyaconger heemstrai with David G. Smith
 * Arik Kershenbaum - Zoologist at Girton College, University of Cambridge and author of The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy
 * David Klein (biologist) - American biologist;
 * G. A. Klevezal - Galina Klevezal is a Russian biologist who is perhaps the leading researcher in the field of osteohistology.
 * Theodor Christian Bernhard Knottnerus-Meyer - described/named the Boselaphini tribe
 * Adolf Kotthaus - described Gnathophis heterolinea and Myrophis lepturus in 1968
 * Roy Koushik – Fisheries and Aquaculture young scientist. Expert in aquaculture footprinting, climate change-fish interactions, fish phenologies, fish nutrition, natural reproduction, fish fauna vulnerability assessments and futuristic intensive aquaculture systems.
 * Moacyr Krieger (born 1930) - Brazilian physician and physiologist

L-M

 * Kyle Lafferty-Whyte - Telomerase biologist who made the transition to systems biology commercial ventures. uk.linkedin.com/in/drkylelaffertywhyte/
 * Daniel Lagunzad (1957–2010) - Filipino botanist who provided studies of the role of animal dispersal in early forest succession and rehabilitation in South East Asia.
 * Gretchen Lambert - Ascidian taxonomy, biodiversity, and invasive species. Faculty at California State University at Fullerton, and Researcher at University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.
 * Olivier Lambert (paleontologist) - described and named Livyatan melvillei
 * Bert Langerwerf - better known as "The Lizard Man"
 * Tanya Latty - Slime Mould researcher
 * Robert J. Lavenberg (Robert Lavenberg) - described the South Pacific moray
 * Einar Hagbart Martin Lea / E. H. M. Lea - biologist, described and named Dysommina proboscideus and Pseudophichthys splendens among other species
 * Herman Lent - Brazilian entomologist and former student of Carlos Chagas who became devoted to the research of the triatomines and together with Peter Wygodzinsky made a revision of the Triatominae, a summary of 40 years of studies on the triatomines up to 1989.
 * Gordon Ling -
 * Michelle Linterman - Michelle Linterman received her PhD in Immunology from the Australian National University in Canberra, where she investigated a novel mechanism of immunological tolerance; a phenomenon by which the immune system fails to respond to an antigen. She is currently a Group Leader at the Babraham Institute and her principle research focus is on how the immune system responds to vaccination, in particular why vaccine efficacy declines with age. In 2019 she was awarded a Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship. Recently she has researched boosters for Covid-19 vaccines.(https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/immunology/michelle-linterman)
 * Anatole Stephan Loukashkin (1902–1988) - biologist;
 * Jens Lundgren -
 * Gerrit François Makkink (1907–2006) - Dutch ethologist, hydrologist and agriculturist;
 * Marc Mangel - theoretical ecologist
 * Kini R. Manjunatha / Kini Manjunatha - snake venom researcher, professor, NUS, Singapore
 * Stephen Mayfield (born 1955) - American microbiologist among other things (currently at UCSD)
 * Jean-Michel Mazin - settled the debate in favor of pterosaurs walking on all fours - see the timeline of pterosaur research
 * Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra - described the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016 alongside Anil Mohapatra, D. G. Smith, and D. Ray
 * Anil Mohapatra - described the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016 alongside D. G. Smith, D. Ray, and Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
 * Gaetano Montelione - American biophysical chemist (born 1957) WikidataLinked-In Rutgers University Lab Home Page Google Scholar Nexomics BiociencesMontelione Lab Publications (>350) Northeast Structural Genomics ConsortiumShort Biosketch]Wikipedia Article: Michael and Kate Bárány Award LaureatesElected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2006Searle Scholar 1989 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar AwardDamon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fellow
 * Anna Moroni (scientist) &mdash; ion channel researcher and developer of BLINK2 optogenetic tool.
 * Joseph Moshe -
 * Thomas Mrsic-Flogel - Neuroscientist, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
 * Mary B. Mullins - American molecular biologist;
 * Georg Graf Munster - see timeline of pterosaur research

N-R

 * Ronald Nadler - developmental biologist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center
 * Tetsuji Nakabo - named Sphyraena iburiensis
 * Eric Neil - English physiologist (1918–1990) - coauthor with C. Heymans (sic) Reflexogenic Areas of the Cardiovascular System and with B. Folkow Circulation
 * Lindsay Shepherd Olive (L. S. Olive) (1917–1988) - U.S. mycologist with several important contributions to the study of slime molds, author of the Eumycetozoa hypothesis postulated in his book The Mycetozoans (1975).
 * Robert V. O'Neill (Robert O'Neill) - theoretical ecologist
 * James Herbert Orton (1884-1953)
 * Balthazar Osório - described and named Muraena robusta
 * Haris Parengal - Indian Biologist, Naturalist and Author; contributing outstanding research ideas to different disciplines, discovery in microbial soil stabilization and Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Diazotrophs
 * Nikolai Vasil'evich Parin - described Neocaristius heemstrai
 * Michele A. Pastore (Michele Pastore) - named Sphyraena intermedia
 * Vic Pedemors – marine biologist, animal behaviorist
 * Martin Pera - originator of ESI (aka HES) human ES lines;
 * Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
 * P.M.Peterson - described and named Sporobolus alterniflorus
 * Felix Plieninger - formally divided the pterosaurs into two suborders, the long-tailed Rhamphorhynchoidea and the short-tailed Pterodactyloids
 * John J. Pogonoski (John Pogonoski) - gave the Indonesian wobbegong the binomial name Orectolobus leptolineatus
 * Jules Pretty - British agronomist; ; gscholar profile
 * Patricia Princehouse
 * Artem Mikhailovich Prokofiev - described Gymnothorax emmae in 2010
 * August Quenstedt - paleobiologist who argued that pterosaurs walked on their hind limbs - see Timeline of pterosaur research
 * Emmanuel Ramírez-Antonio - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
 * Achille P. Raselimanana, PhD (Achille Raselimanana) - Malagasy herpetologist and taxonomist. Professor at University of Antananarivo. Attained PhD from American Museum of Natural History under Christopher J. Raxworthy. President of Association Vahatra. Coauthor of many scientific papers and several books published by Vahatra. Associate Editor of the journal Malagasy Nature. Particularly significant contributions to understanding of Zonosaurus systematics.
 * Thaichira Bahuleyan Ratheesh - one of the people who gave the Arabian barracuda the binomial name Sphyraena arabiansis
 * Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, PhD (Fanomezana Ratsoavina) - Malagasy herpetologist and taxonomist. Attained PhD from Technische Universität Braunschweig under Miguel Vences. Lecturer at the University of Antananarivo. Major contributions to the taxonomy of Uroplatus geckos. Senior fellowship from VolkswagenStiftung.
 * Dipanjan Ray - described the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016 alongside Anil Mohapatra, D. G. Smith, and Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
 * Jacques Rivaton - described the whitetip moray in 1979 alongside Pierre Fourmanoir
 * Vadim S. Rotenberg, MD, PhD, DSc. - author of the "search activity" concept;
 * John Rummel – astrobiologist, currently at East Carolina University; held various positions at NASA (1986–1993); Director of Research Administration and Education at the Marine Biological Laboratory (1994–1998); was NASA's Planetary Protection Officer (1998–2006); NASA Senior Scientist for Astrobiology (2006–2008); Director of the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy at ECU (2008–2013); ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

S-Z

 * Jeffery M. Saarela (Jeffery Saarela) - described Sporobolus alterniflorus
 * Neville Sanjana 2015-2017 PECASE winner - see Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
 * Isidro Antonio T. Savillo (Isidro Antonio Savillo) - Wetland Conservation Honorable Advisor Award; organizer of ISMCBBPR (Molecule of the Year) and ISCSPM;
 * - declared Leptopelis barbouri to be a valid species in 1975
 * William C. Schroeder (William Schroeder) - coauthor of Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, alongside Henry Bryant Bigelow
 * Erin Margaret Schuman &mdash; neurbiologist and managing director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (2015; Frankfurt, Germany)
 * Jack Schuster - Entomologist specialized in Passalidae
 * Werner Theodor Schmidt -
 * Arturo Angulo Sibaja - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
 * Joseph Simcox - botanical explorer; see Kajari melon
 * Kerry Sink - South African marine ecologist
 * David G. Smith (D. G. Smith) - described the ringed moray and Gymnothorax mccoskeri in 1997, Kenyaconger heemstrai in 2003, and the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016
 * L. A. Smith - described the rough-scaled python
 * Gerald Sonnenfeld -
 * Alex Sonnenwirth – microbiologist – –
 * John D. Stevens (ichthyologist) - gave the elongate carpet shark the binomial name Parascyllium elongatum
 * Carl P. Swanson - Father of modern cytology
 * Kenneth B. Storey (biologist) - Canadian biologist;
 * Hassan Syed - CIO of Species360
 * Shigeho "Sho" Tanaka - named and described the Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) alongside Kazunari Yano in 1984
 * Toru Taniuchi - named and described the whitetail dogfish (Scymnodalatias albicauda) alongside Jack Garrick in 1986
 * J. Paul Taylor (biologist - neurologist) - physician-scientist, Potamkin Prize winner
 * Jeffrey Taubenberger - found complete genome of 1918 Spanish Flu -
 * Yi-Kai Tea - Singaporean-Australian ichthyologist, taxonomist, and photographer;
 * Cornelis Terhorst - immunologist; contributed to understanding of T-cell Receptors and cancer immunotherapy; Professor at Harvard Medical School -
 * Ramachandran Thangaraja - one of the people who gave the Arabian barracuda the binomial name Sphyraena arabiansis
 * Stewart P. Thomas (born 1946) - Amercian zoologist and teacher;
 * Ken Thompson (botonist) - British botanist, ecologist and author of 'Where do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species,
 * Heinrich Julius Tode - named the fungi genus Xylostroma in 1790
 * T'Shaka Touré (Touré T) - author of Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1
 * Gian Toyos - biologist and environmental expert
 * Cornelius Van Neil - ;
 * Carl von Theodori - described the new species Pterodactylus banthensis from Franconia - see timeline of pterosaur research
 * Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia - named the Austriadactylus genus
 * Cyprien Verseux - astrobiologist, expert in biological life support systems, crewmember of the HI-SEAS IV mission, station leader of the XIVth winterover at Concordia Station (Antarctica);
 * Jonathan Vicente - Brazilian Biomedical Scientist and science communicator, a strong voice in Brazil COVID-19 response
 * Alexei Vyssotski (contemporary) — Russian neurophysiologist focused on determining mechanisms of memory formation through vocal learning in birds; developed equipment for recording vocalizations of individual birds via a 2 gram backpack (Neurologger). See: ;
 * Georg Wagler - Argued that pterosaurs represented a distinct class of aquatic vertebrates that he called Gryphi. Like Collini, Wagler thought that pterosaurs swam underwater using their forelimbs as flippers. - see timeline of pterosaur research
 * Andreas Wagner (palaeontologist) - erected the new genus Dorygnathus for the species Pterodactylus banthensis - see timeline of pterosaur research
 * Martin Wells - British cephalopod biologist and researcher;
 * Tom Wenseleers - Belgian evolutionary biologist, with many articles in prominent journals (Nature, Science, Nature Microbiology, etc);
 * George Reber Wieland - described the genus Archelon and the species Archelon ischyros
 * Henry Hopley White - dinoflagellate cysts
 * Rupert Wild - reviewed and redescribed all Tanystropheus specimens known at the time via several large monographs in the 1970s-80s
 * H. Garrison Wilkes - American maize botanist, student of Richard Evans Schultes;
 * Auriel A. Willette - American food science biologist.
 * G.W. Wilson - named Phloeophthora cactorum in 1914; see Phytophthora cactorum
 * Carrie D. Wolinetz current Deputy Director for Health & Life Sciences, White House Office of Science Policy. Former Chief of Staff and Director, Office Science Policy, National Institutes of Health. Received Ph.D. in Animal Science from (The Pennsylvania State University). Led policy efforts in combatting sexual harassment in science, data sharing, biosecurity, and clincial trials.
 * Dr. Mitchell Henry Wright – Renowned Geomicrobiologist who received his Ph.D. for his work investigating the physiological and molecular characteristics of manganese transforming bacteria from a radioactive hot spring (Paralana hot springs, South Australia, Australia) . Born in Australia, Dr. Wright has worked in research facilities around the world, including in the United States (Oregon Health and Science University) and Australia (Griffith University). He is an expert in thermophilic bacteria as well as pharmacognosy and has been the subject of news articles . He has authored or co-authored over 30 publications in high-impact journals and has an h-index of 10. According to the author profiles on his most recent publication, he currently resides in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) where he works as a research scientist. ; ; ;  ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . Furthermore, he has authored or co-authored papers describing novel bacteria (Aliidiomarina minuta, Pseudomonas laurentiana) and was integral in their discovery ; ;.
 * Philip F. Wareing (27 April 1914 — 29 March 1996) - He was appointed Professor of Botany in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1981. He discovered large amounts of growth inhibitor in dormant buds of ash and potatoes. He called it dormin. In the early 60's Wareing and associates confirmed that applying dormin (later named Abscisic acid) to a bud induces dormancy.
 * Michael Watkins (zoologist) (Watkins M) - author of The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
 * Xiang-Jiao Yang - Molecular and developmental biologist
 * Kazunari Yano - named and described the Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) alongside Shigeho "Sho" Tanaka in 1984
 * Yoram Yom-Tov - Israeli zoologist
 * Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka - described the superphylum Asgard (archaea)
 * Chuanlun Zhang – An American-trained Chinese Biogeochemist and Geomicrobiologist who had worked at many research facilities in both the United States (NASA, ORNL, UGA, Texas A&M) and China (Southern University of Science and Technology) and is an expert in Archaea. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 high-impact papers. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ]; ; ; ; ;