John Casey

Microbial oceanography, biophysics, cell metabolism and physiology, systems biology.

Updated: 2025-10-07

  1. Casey, J.R., Lomas, M.W., Mandecki, J., Walker, D.E., 2007. Prochlorococcus contributes to new production in the Sargasso Sea deep chlorophyll maximum. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L10604. PDF DOI Link
  2. Casey, J.R., Lomas, M.W., Michelou, V.K., Dyhrman, S.T., Ammerman, J.W., Sylvan, J.B., 2009. Taxon-specific orthophosphate and ATP utilization in the western Sargasso Sea. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 58, 31-44. PDF DOI Link
  3. Fawcett, S.E., Lomas, M.W., Casey, J.R., Ward, B.B., Sigman, D.M., 2011. Assimilation of upwelled nitrate by small eukaryotes in the Sargasso Sea. Nature Geoscience 4, 1–6. PDF DOI Link
  4. Lomas, M.W., Moran, S.B., Casey, J.R., Bell, D.W., Tiahlo, M., Whitefield, J., Kelly, R.P., Mathis, J.T., Cokelet, E.D., 2012. Spatial and seasonal variability of primary production on the Eastern Bering Sea shelf. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 1–15. PDF DOI Link
  5. Mackey, K., Buck, K.N., Casey, J.R., Cid, A., Lomas, M.W., Sohrin, Y., Paytan, A., 2012. Phytoplankton responses to atmospheric metal deposition in the coastal and open-ocean Sargasso Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology 3, 1–15. PDF DOI Link
  6. Casey, J.R., Aucan, J.P., Goldberg, S.R., Lomas, M.W., 2013. Changes in partitioning of carbon among photosynthetic pico- and nanoplankton in the Sargasso Sea in response to changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 93, 58-70. PDF DOI Link
  7. Wallhead, P.J., Garçon, V.C., Casey, J.R., Lomas, M.W., 2014. Long-term variability of phytoplankton carbon biomass in the Sargasso Sea. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 28, 825-841. PDF DOI Link
  8. Durham, B.P., Grote, J., Whittaker, K.A., Bender, S.J., Luo, H., Grim, S.L., Brown, J.M., Casey, J.R., Dron, A., Florez-Leiva, L., Krupke, A., Luria, C.M., Mine, A.H., Nigro, O.D., Pather, S., Talarmin, A., Wear, E.K., Weber, T.S., 4. Wilson, J.M., Church, M.J., DeLong, E.F., Karl, D.M., Steward, G.F., Eppley, J.M., Krypides, N.C., Schuster, S., Rappé, M.S., 2014. Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome. Standards in Genomic Sciences 9, 632. PDF DOI Link
  9. Casey, J.R., Falkowski, P.G., Karl, D.M., 2015. Substrate selection for heterotrophic bacterial growth in the sea. Marine Chemistry 177, 349-356. PDF DOI Link
  10. Casey, J.R., Mardinoglu, A., Nielsen, J., Karl, D.M., 2016. Adaptive evolution of phosphorus metabolism in Prochlorococcus. mSystems 1, e00065–16. PDF DOI Link
  11. Wilson, S.T., Aylward, F.O., Ribalet, F., Barone, B., Casey, J.R., Connell, P.E., Eppley, J.A., Ferrón, S., Romano, A.E., Turk-Kubo, K.A., Vislova, A., Armbrust, V., Caron, D.A., Church, M.J., Zehr, J.P., Karl, D.M., DeLong, E.F., 2017. Coordinated regulation of growth, activity, and transcription in natural populations of the unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera. Nature Microbiology 2, 17118. PDF DOI Link
  12. Casey, J.R., Ferrón, S., Karl, D.M., 2017. Light-enhanced microbial organic carbon yield. Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 2157. PDF DOI Link
  13. Casey, J.R., Björkman, K.M., Ferrón, S., Karl, D.M., 2019. Size-dependence of metabolism within marine picoplankton populations. Limnology and Oceanography 64, 1819-1827. PDF DOI Link
  14. Sosa, O.A., Casey, J.R., Karl, D.M., 2019. Methylphosphonate oxidation in Prochlorococcus supports phosphate acquisition, formate secretion, and carbon assimilation into purine nucleotides. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85:e00289-19. PDF DOI Link
  15. Wilson, S.T., Hawko, N.J., Armbrust, E.V., Barone, B., Björkman, K.M., Boysen, A.K., Burgos, M., Burrell, T.J., Casey, J.R., DeLong, E.F., Dugenne, M., Dutkiewicz, S., Dyhrman, S.T., Ferrón, S., Follows, M.J., Foreman, R.K., Funkey, C.P., Harke, M.J., Henke, B.A., Hill, C.N., Hynes, A.M., Ingalls, A.E., Jahn, O., Kelly, R.L., Knapp, A.N., Letelier, R.M., Ribalet, F., Shimabukuro E.M., Tabata, R.K.S., Turk-Kubo, K.A., White, A.E., Zehr, J.P., John, S., Karl, D.M., 2019. Kilauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Ocean. Science 365, 1040-1044. PDF DOI Link
  16. Casey, J.R., Follows, M.J., 2020. A steady-state model of microbial acclimation to substrate limitation. PLOS Computational Biology 16:e1008140. PDF DOI Link
  17. Beckett, S.J., Demory, D., Coenen, A.R., Casey, J.R., Dugenne, M., Follett, C.L., Connell P., Carlson, M.C.G., Hu, S.K., Wilson, S.T., Muratore, D., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, R.A., Peng, S., Becker, K., Mende, D.R., Armbrust, E.V., Caron, D.A., Lindell, D., Follows, M.J., White, A.E., Ribalet, F., Weitz, J.S., 2021. Diel population dynamics and mortality of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2021.06.15.448546. PDF DOI Link
  18. Mattern, J.P., Glauninger, K., Britten, G.L., Casey, J.R., Hyun, S., Wu, Z., Armbrust, E.V., Harchaoui, Z., Ribalet, F., 2022. A Bayesian approach to modeling phytoplankton population dynamics from size distribution time series. PLoS Computational Biology 18:e1009733. PDF DOI Link
  19. Muratore, D., Boysen, A.K., Harke, M.J., Becker, K.W., Casey, J.R., Coesel, S.N., Mende, D.R., Wilson, S.T., Aylward, F.O., Eppley, J.M., Vislova, A., Peng, S., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, R. A., Beckett, S.J., Armbrust, E.V., DeLong, E.F., Karl, D.M., White, A.E., Zehr, J.P., Van Mooy, B.A.S., Dyhrman, S.T., Ingalls, A.E., Weitz, J.S., 2022. Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:218-229. PDF DOI Link
  20. Casey, J.R., Boiteau, R.M., Engqvist, M.K.M., Finkel, Z.V., Li, G., Liefer, J., Muller, C.L., Munoz, N., Follows, M.J., 2022. Basin-scale biogeography of marine phytoplankton reflects cellular-scale optimization of metabolism and physiology. Science Advances 8:eabl4930. PDF DOI Link
  21. Smyth, T., Moffat, D., Tarran, G., Sathyendranath, S., Ribalet, F., Casey, J.R., 2023. Determining drivers of phytoplankton carbon to chlorophyll ratio at Atlantic Basin scale. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1191216. PDF DOI Link
  22. Moore, L.R., Caspi, R., Campbell, D.A., Casey, J.R., Crevecoeur, S., Lea-Smith, D.J., Long, B., Omar, N.M., Paley, S.M., Schmelling, N.M., Torrado, A., Zehr, J.P., Karp, P.D., 2024. CyanoCyc cyanobacterial web portal. Frontiers in Microbiology 15:1340413 PDF DOI Link
  23. Beckett, S.J., Demory, D., Coenen, A.R., Casey, J.R., Dugenne, M., Follett, C.L., Connell, P., Carlson, M.C.G., Hu, S.K., Wilson, S.T., Muratore, D., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, R.A., Peng, S., Becker, K.W., Mende, D.R., Armbrust, E.V., Caron, D.A., Lindell, D., White, A.E., Ribalet, F., Weitz, J.S., 2024. Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Nature Communications 15:2105 PDF DOI Link
  24. Casey, J.R., Bennion, B.J., D’Haeseleer, P., Kimbrel, J.A., Marschmann, G.L., Navid, A., 2024. Transporter annotations are holding up progress in metabolic modeling. Frontiers in Systems Biology 4:1394084 PDF DOI Link
  25. Kim, H., Brisson, V.L., Casey, J.R., Swink, C., Rolison, K.A., McCall, N., Golini, A.N., Northen, T.R., Velickovic, D., Weber, P.K., Buie, C.R., Mayali, X., Stuart, R.K., 2025. Spatially structured bacterial interactions alter algal carbon flow to bacteria. The ISME Journal wraf096 PDF DOI Link