Taylor Priest

An ecologist studying the diversity, ecology and evolution of microbes across Earth's biomes

Arctic Ocean virus communities and their seasonality, bipolarity, and prokaryotic associations

Alyzza M. Calayag, 
Taylor Priest, 
Ellen Oldenburg, 
Jan Muschiol, 
Ovidiu Popa, 
Matthias Wietz & 
David M. Needham

Nature Communications, 2025.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61568-6

Seasonal recurrence and modular assembly of an Arctic pelagic marine microbiome

Taylor Priest, Ellen Oldenburg, Ovidiu Popa, Bledina Dede, 
Katja Metfies, Wilken-Jon von Appen,
Sinhué Torres-Valdés, Christina Bienhold,
Bernhard M. Fuchs,
Rudolf Amann, Antje Boetius & Matthias Wietz

Nature Communications, 2025.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56203-3

Host-level biodiversity shapes the dynamics and network within the coral reef microbiome

Fabienne Wiederkehr, Karen Elena Engelhardt, Jana Vetter, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Guillem Salazar, James O’Brien, Taylor Priest, Maren Ziegler, Shinichi Sunagawa

ISME Communication, 2025.

https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf097

Investigating pelagic biodiversity and gelatinous zooplankton communities in the rapidly changing European Arctic: An eDNA metabarcoding survey

Ayla Murray, Taylor Priest, Adria Antich, Wilken-Jon Von Appen, Stefan Neuhaus, Charlotte Havermans

Environmental DNA, 2024.

https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.569

The Arctic summer microbiome across Fram Strait: Depth, longitude, and substrate concentrations structure microbial diversity in the euphotic zone

Matthias Wietz, Anja Engel, Simon Ramondenc, Matomo Niwano, Wilken-Jon von Appen, Taylor Priest, Anabel von Jackowski, Katja Metfies, Christina Bienhold, Antje Boetius

Environm. Microbiol., 2024.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16568

Carbohydrates and carbohydrate degradation gene abundance and transcription in Atlantic waters of the Arctic

Taylor Priest, Silvia Vidal-Melgosa, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, Rudolf Amann, Bernhard M. Fuchs

ISME Communications, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01461-6

Atlantic water influx and sea-ice cover drive taxonomic and functional shifts in Arctic marine bacterial communities

Taylor Priest, Wilken-Jon von Appen, Ellen Oldenburg, Ovidiu Popa, Sinhué Torres-Valdés,Christina Bienhold, Katja Metfies, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, Antje Boetius, Thomas Mock, William Boulton, Matthias Wietz

ISME Journal, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01366-4

High abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading Alcanivorax in plumes of hydrothermally active volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean

Bledina Dede, Taylor Priest, Wolfgang Bach, Maren Walter, Rudolf Amann, Anke Meyerdieks

ISME Journal, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.04.483023

Niche partitioning of the ubiquitous and ecologically relevant NS5 marine group

Taylor Priest, Anneke Heins, Jens Harder, Rudolf Amann, Bernhard M. Fuchs

ISME Journal, 2022.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01209-8

Microbial metagenome-assembled genomes of the Fram Strait from short and long read sequencing platforms

Taylor Priest, Luis H. Orellana, Bruno Huettel, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann

PeerJ, 2021.

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11721

Diversity and biomass dynamics of unicellular marine fungi during a spring phytoplankton bloom

Taylor Priest, Bernhard Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, Marlis Reich

Environmental Microbiology, 2020.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15331