NAI
Christopher House
Pennsylvania State University
Current Projects
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2014 NAI
- Biosignatures in Extraterrestrial Settings — 2014 NAI
- Biosignatures in Extraterrestrial Settings — 2013 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2013 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2013 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2012 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2012 NAI
- Biosignatures in Extraterrestrial Settings — 2012 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2011 NAI
- Biosignatures in Extraterrestrial Settings — 2011 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2011 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2010 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2010 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2009 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Mark Claire — 2009 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2009 NAI
- Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF Project) — 2008 NAI
- Untitled — 2008 NAI
- Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures — 2008 NAI
- Ferry Report — 2008 NAI
- Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere (Ohmoto) — 2007 NAI
- Rise of Oxygen, Modern Analogs for Anoxic Oceans, and Effect of Early Life on Soil Development — 2007 NAI
- Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Kump) — 2006 NAI
- Oxygen Metabolism and Oxidatie Stress in Anaerobic Microorganisms (Ferry) — 2006 NAI
- Laboratory Microbial Simulations (House) — 2006 NAI
- Subsurface Biospheres — 2005 NAI
- Genomic Approach to Understanding of the Evolution of Sulfur Metabolisms — 2005 NAI
- Lee Kump — 2005 NAI
- Geochemical Processes and Biosignatures (House) — 2005 NAI
- Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures — 2004 NAI
- Subsurface Biospheres — 2004 NAI
- Whole Genome Comparisons and the Evolution of Methane and Sulfur Metabolisms — 2004 NAI
- Geopulse — 2004 NAI
- Geobiology and Geochemistry of Early Earth — 2003 NAI
- Subsurface Biospheres — 2003 NAI
- Geopulse — 2003 NAI
- Genomic Evolution and the Tree of Life — 2003 NAI
- Geobiology and Geochemistry of Early Earth and Mars — 2002 NAI
- Genomic Evolution and the Tree of Life — 2002 NAI
- GEOPULSE (Gene Expression of Observations for Planetary Life Study) — 2002 NAI
- GEOPULSE (Gene Expression of Observations for Planetary Life Study) — 2001 NAI
- Astrobiology at UCLA: An Intergrated Multidisciplinary Approach to Research and Education — 2001 NAI
- Astrobiology at UCLA: An Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach to Research and Education — 2000 NAI
- Paleomicrobiology and the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways in the Archaean Environment. — 2000 NAI
- Whole Genome-Based Phylogenetic Analysis of Free-Living Microorganisms — 2000 NAI
- Astrobiology at UCLA: An Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach to Research and Education — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Beal, E. J., Claire, M. W., & House, C. H. (2011). High rates of anaerobic methanotrophy at low sulfate concentrations with implications for past and present methane levels. Geobiology, None, no–no. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00267.x
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Beal, E. J., House, C. H., & Orphan, V. J. (2009). Manganese- and Iron-Dependent Marine Methane Oxidation. Science, 325(5937), 184–187. doi:10.1126/science.1169984
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Biddle, J. F., White, J. R., Teske, A. P., & House, C. H. (2011). Metagenomics of the subsurface Brazos-Trinity Basin (IODP site 1320): comparison with other sediment and pyrosequenced metagenomes. ISME J, 5(6), 1038–1047. doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.199
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Callahan, M. P., Smith, K. E., Cleaves, H. J., Ruzicka, J., Stern, J. C., Glavin, D. P., … Dworkin, J. P. (2011). Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(34), 13995–13998. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106493108
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Callahan, M. P., Smith, K. E., Cleaves, H. J., Ruzicka, J., Stern, J. C., Glavin, D. P., … Dworkin, J. P. (2011). Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(34), 13995–13998. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106493108
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Cameron, V., Vance, D., Archer, C., & House, C. H. (2009). A biomarker based on the stable isotopes of nickel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(27), 10944–10948. doi:10.1073/pnas.0900726106
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House, C. H. (2009). The Tree of Life Viewed Through the Contents of Genomes. Methods in Molecular Biology, None, 141–161. doi:10.1007/978-1-60327-853-9_8
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House, C. H., Beal, E. J., & Orphan, V. J. (2011). The Apparent Involvement of ANMEs in Mineral Dependent Methane Oxidation, as an Analog for Possible Martian Methanotrophy. Life, 1(1), 19–33. doi:10.3390/life1010019
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House, C. H., Oehler, D. Z., Sugitani, K., & Mimura, K. (2013). Carbon isotopic analyses of ca. 3.0 Ga microstructures imply planktonic autotrophs inhabited Earth’s early oceans. Geology, 41(6), 651–654. doi:10.1130/g34055.1
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House, C. H., Orphan, V. J., Turk, K. A., Thomas, B., Pernthaler, A., Vrentas, J. M., & Joye, S. B. (2009). Extensive carbon isotopic heterogeneity among methane seep microbiota. Environmental Microbiology, 11(9), 2207–2215. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01934.x
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Martino, A. J., Rhodes, M. E., Biddle, J. F., Brandt, L. D., Tomsho, L. P., & House, C. H. (2012). Novel Degenerate PCR Method for Whole-Genome Amplification Applied to Peru Margin (ODP Leg 201) Subsurface Samples. Frontiers in Microbiology, 3. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2012.00017
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Orphan, V. J., & House, C. H. (2009). Geobiological investigations using secondary ion mass spectrometry: microanalysis of extant and paleo-microbial processes. Geobiology, 7(3), 360–372. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00201.x
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Orphan, V. J., Turk, K. A., Green, A. M., & House, C. H. (2009). Patterns of 15 N assimilation and growth of methanotrophic ANME-2 archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria within structured syntrophic consortia revealed by FISH-SIMS. Environmental Microbiology, 11(7), 1777–1791. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01903.x
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Rhodes, M. E., Fitz-Gibbon, S. T., Oren, A., & House, C. H. (2010). Amino acid signatures of salinity on an environmental scale with a focus on the Dead Sea. Environmental Microbiology, 12(9), 2613–2623. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02232.x
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Rhodes, M. E., Oren, A., & House, C. H. (2012). Dynamics and Persistence of Dead Sea Microbial Populations as Shown by High-Throughput Sequencing of rRNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78(7), 2489–2492. doi:10.1128/aem.06393-11
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Rhodes, M. E., Spear, J. R., Oren, A., & House, C. H. (2011). Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1), 199. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-199
See Project - Mumma, M., Des Marais, D.J., Baross, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Hand, K., Villanueva, G., House, C., Ferry, G., McCollom, T., Sotin, C., Goldman, S., Vance, S. & Painter, T. (2010). The astrobiology of Mars: Methane and other candidate biomarker gases, and related interdisciplinary studies on Earth and Mars [abstract 5590]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Ohmoto, H. & House, C.H. (2012, Sbmitted). Did continental growth end the anaerobic world. Nature Geosciences. See Project
- Orphan, V., Dekas, A., Green, A., House, C., Marlow, J., Steele, J., McGlynn, S. & Levin, L. (2011). Microbial partnerships and methane-oxidation in the deep sea. Goldschmidt Conference. Prague. See Project
- Rhodes, M.E., Oren, A. & House, C.H. (In Review). Revisiting Dead Sea Haloarchaeal Blooms Through High Throughput Sequencing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. See Project
- Zerkle, A.L., Junium, C.K., Canfield, D.E. & House, C.H. (2008). Production of 15 N-depleted biomass during cyanobacterial N 2 -fixation at high Fe concentrations. J. Geophys. Res, 113(G03024). See Project
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Phone:
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Email:
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Discipline
Geophysics
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