Manuel Martinez is Associate Professor of Microbiology, Head of the Lab Single Cell and Virus Genomics and Metagenomics and PI of the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group (University of Alicante, SPAIN). 2017-Present
A. Academic and Professional background
1998-2001 BSc, Biology, University of Alicante (Spain)
2001-2002 Molecular Biology Grant. National Science Council of Spain
2003-2004 Msc, Microbial molecular ecology on bacterial symbionts of marine invertebrates (University of Alicante)
2002-2005 PhD, Characterization of microbiota associate with ascidians producing anti-tumor compounds (University of Alicante)
2006, Postdoc stay (3 months), Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, CARD-FISH and microelectrodes for studying marine Thaumarchaea
2008, Postdoc stay (2 moths), Institute of Microbiology, Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Academy of Science of Czech Republic. Infrared Fast Repetition Fluorescence with aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs
2006-2009, Assistant Professor of Microbiology (University of Alicante)
2009-2011, Postdoc, Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory.
2011-2017, Assistant Professor of Microbiology (University of Alicante)
B. Impact of scientific production
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Research Gate link
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Martinez_Garcia/contributions
ORCID ID orcid.org/0000-0001-5056-1525
C. Peer-review papers
See the Google Citation link for a complete list of publication
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A selected list is shown below:
Martinez-Hernandez F, Fornas O, Lluesma M, Bolduc B, Cruz MJ, Martínez Martínez J, Antón J, Gasol J, Rosselli R, Rodríguez-Valera R, Sullivan MB, Acinas S and Manuel Martinez-Garcia. Single-virus genomics reveals hidden cosmopolitan and abundant viruses. Nature Communications (2017).. doi:10.1038/ncomms15892
Martínez-García M., Santos F., Moreno-Paz M., Parro V., & Antón J (2014). Unveiling viral-host interactions within the ‘microbial dark matter’. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms5542. Recommended in Faculty of 1000.
Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Brandon K. Swan, David Brazel, Nicole J. Poulton, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell Masland, Carol Arnosti, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. "Capturing Single Cell Genomes of Active Polysaccharide Degraders: An Unexpected Contribution of Verrucomicrobia" (2012). PLoS ONE 7(4): e35314. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035314.
Manuel Martinez-Garcia, David Brazel, Nicole J. Poulton, Brandon K. Swan, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell Masland, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2011) Unveiling in situ interactions between marine protists and bacteria through single cell sequencing. ISME Journal. Mar;6(3):703-707 7. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.126. Recommended in Faculty of 1000.
Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Brandon K. Swan, Nicole J. Poulton, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell Masland, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2012) High throughput single cell sequencing identifies photoheterotrophs and chemoautotrophs in freshwater bacterioplankton. ISME Journal. Jan;6(1):113-23. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.84.
Brandon K. Swan, Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Christina M. Preston, Nicole Poulton, E. Dashiell P. Masland, Monica Lluesma-Gomez, Edward F. DeLong, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2011). Potential for chemolithoautotrophy among ubiquitous bacteria lineages in the dark ocean. Science. 333: 1296-1300.
Swan, B., Tupper, B., Sczyrba, A., Lauro, F., Martinez-Garcia, M et al. and Stepanauskas, R. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1304246110 ). Prevalent genome streamlining and latitudinal divergence of surface ocean bacterioplankton. PNAS.
Santos F., Martinez Garcia M., Parro V., and Anton, J. (2014, in press). Microarray tools to unveil viral-microbe interactions in nature. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Ghylin T, Moya F, Oyserman, B, Garcia, S, Mutschler J, Schwientek P, Forest, K, Chan L-K, Martinez-Garcia M, Sczyrba A, Stepanauskas R, Grossart H, Woyke T, Warnecke F, Malmstrom R, Bertilsson S, McMahon K. Comparative single-cell genomics reveals potential ecological niches for freshwater ultramicrobacteria of the acI Actinobacteria lineage. ISME Journal.
María Gomariz, Manuel Martínez-García, Fernando Santos, Francisco Rodriguez, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Toni Gabaldón, Ramon Rosselló-Móra, Inmaculada Meseguer, and Josefa Antón. From community approaches to single cell genomics: the discovery of ubiquitous hyperhalophilic Bacteroidetes generalists. ISME Journal.
Swan, B, Chaffin, M, Martinez-Garcia, M, Morrison, H, Field E, Poulton N, Masland D, Harris C, Sczyrba A, Chain P, Koren S, Woyke T, Stepanauskas R. (2014). Genomic and Metabolic Diversity of Marine Group I Thaumarchaeota in the Mesopelagic of Two Subtropical Gyres. PLoS ONE. Vol9, Issue 4, e95380.
Garcia, S. L., McMahon, K. D., Martinez-Garcia, M., Srivastava, A., Sczyrba, A., Stepanauskas, R., Grossart, H.-P., et al. (2012). Metabolic potential of a single cell belonging to one of the most abundant lineages in freshwater bacterioplankton. ISME journal, 7 (1), 137–147. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.86.
D. Synergistic activities
Over 3000h of teaching in several Masters and Biology Degree (Microbiology field) at the University of Alicante
>20 communication in International Meeting in the last 5 years.
Editor in Frontiers in Microbiology Journal and Associate Editor on Virology in Frontiers Journal
Senior editor of Frontiers topic "Single cell technologies for studying uncultured microbes: from genes to phenotype". over 75,000 total views and over 14,000 article downloads
Ad Hoc reviewer: (Scientific journals): ISME Journal, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, ASLO Journal, etc…
Ad Hoc reviewer since 2011 for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Ocean Sciences, Biological Oceanography Program (USA), Spanish Science Council, European Comission, National Science Foundation of Israel, Czech Republic , etc...
Researcher of the European Grant “Advanced toolbox for rapid and cost-effective functional metagenomic screening - microbiology meets microfluidics (Acrónimo: METAFLUIDICS), Founding Agency: European Union H2020. 30/06/2016 – 31/01/2020. Funding 8 millones euros.
A. Academic and Professional background
1998-2001 BSc, Biology, University of Alicante (Spain)
2001-2002 Molecular Biology Grant. National Science Council of Spain
2003-2004 Msc, Microbial molecular ecology on bacterial symbionts of marine invertebrates (University of Alicante)
2002-2005 PhD, Characterization of microbiota associate with ascidians producing anti-tumor compounds (University of Alicante)
2006, Postdoc stay (3 months), Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, CARD-FISH and microelectrodes for studying marine Thaumarchaea
2008, Postdoc stay (2 moths), Institute of Microbiology, Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Academy of Science of Czech Republic. Infrared Fast Repetition Fluorescence with aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs
2006-2009, Assistant Professor of Microbiology (University of Alicante)
2009-2011, Postdoc, Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory.
2011-2017, Assistant Professor of Microbiology (University of Alicante)
B. Impact of scientific production
See Google Citation link for info on citation
https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=es&btnA=1&authorid=6497012976543263190&user=Pu8Dj-wAAAAJ
Research Gate link
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Martinez_Garcia/contributions
ORCID ID orcid.org/0000-0001-5056-1525
C. Peer-review papers
See the Google Citation link for a complete list of publication
https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=es&btnA=1&authorid=6497012976543263190&user=Pu8Dj-wAAAAJ
A selected list is shown below:
Martinez-Hernandez F, Fornas O, Lluesma M, Bolduc B, Cruz MJ, Martínez Martínez J, Antón J, Gasol J, Rosselli R, Rodríguez-Valera R, Sullivan MB, Acinas S and Manuel Martinez-Garcia. Single-virus genomics reveals hidden cosmopolitan and abundant viruses. Nature Communications (2017).. doi:10.1038/ncomms15892
Martínez-García M., Santos F., Moreno-Paz M., Parro V., & Antón J (2014). Unveiling viral-host interactions within the ‘microbial dark matter’. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms5542. Recommended in Faculty of 1000.
Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Brandon K. Swan, David Brazel, Nicole J. Poulton, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell Masland, Carol Arnosti, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. "Capturing Single Cell Genomes of Active Polysaccharide Degraders: An Unexpected Contribution of Verrucomicrobia" (2012). PLoS ONE 7(4): e35314. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035314.
Manuel Martinez-Garcia, David Brazel, Nicole J. Poulton, Brandon K. Swan, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell Masland, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2011) Unveiling in situ interactions between marine protists and bacteria through single cell sequencing. ISME Journal. Mar;6(3):703-707 7. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.126. Recommended in Faculty of 1000.
Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Brandon K. Swan, Nicole J. Poulton, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell Masland, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2012) High throughput single cell sequencing identifies photoheterotrophs and chemoautotrophs in freshwater bacterioplankton. ISME Journal. Jan;6(1):113-23. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.84.
Brandon K. Swan, Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Christina M. Preston, Nicole Poulton, E. Dashiell P. Masland, Monica Lluesma-Gomez, Edward F. DeLong, Michael E. Sieracki and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2011). Potential for chemolithoautotrophy among ubiquitous bacteria lineages in the dark ocean. Science. 333: 1296-1300.
Swan, B., Tupper, B., Sczyrba, A., Lauro, F., Martinez-Garcia, M et al. and Stepanauskas, R. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1304246110 ). Prevalent genome streamlining and latitudinal divergence of surface ocean bacterioplankton. PNAS.
Santos F., Martinez Garcia M., Parro V., and Anton, J. (2014, in press). Microarray tools to unveil viral-microbe interactions in nature. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Ghylin T, Moya F, Oyserman, B, Garcia, S, Mutschler J, Schwientek P, Forest, K, Chan L-K, Martinez-Garcia M, Sczyrba A, Stepanauskas R, Grossart H, Woyke T, Warnecke F, Malmstrom R, Bertilsson S, McMahon K. Comparative single-cell genomics reveals potential ecological niches for freshwater ultramicrobacteria of the acI Actinobacteria lineage. ISME Journal.
María Gomariz, Manuel Martínez-García, Fernando Santos, Francisco Rodriguez, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Toni Gabaldón, Ramon Rosselló-Móra, Inmaculada Meseguer, and Josefa Antón. From community approaches to single cell genomics: the discovery of ubiquitous hyperhalophilic Bacteroidetes generalists. ISME Journal.
Swan, B, Chaffin, M, Martinez-Garcia, M, Morrison, H, Field E, Poulton N, Masland D, Harris C, Sczyrba A, Chain P, Koren S, Woyke T, Stepanauskas R. (2014). Genomic and Metabolic Diversity of Marine Group I Thaumarchaeota in the Mesopelagic of Two Subtropical Gyres. PLoS ONE. Vol9, Issue 4, e95380.
Garcia, S. L., McMahon, K. D., Martinez-Garcia, M., Srivastava, A., Sczyrba, A., Stepanauskas, R., Grossart, H.-P., et al. (2012). Metabolic potential of a single cell belonging to one of the most abundant lineages in freshwater bacterioplankton. ISME journal, 7 (1), 137–147. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.86.
D. Synergistic activities
Over 3000h of teaching in several Masters and Biology Degree (Microbiology field) at the University of Alicante
>20 communication in International Meeting in the last 5 years.
Editor in Frontiers in Microbiology Journal and Associate Editor on Virology in Frontiers Journal
Senior editor of Frontiers topic "Single cell technologies for studying uncultured microbes: from genes to phenotype". over 75,000 total views and over 14,000 article downloads
Ad Hoc reviewer: (Scientific journals): ISME Journal, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, ASLO Journal, etc…
Ad Hoc reviewer since 2011 for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Ocean Sciences, Biological Oceanography Program (USA), Spanish Science Council, European Comission, National Science Foundation of Israel, Czech Republic , etc...
Researcher of the European Grant “Advanced toolbox for rapid and cost-effective functional metagenomic screening - microbiology meets microfluidics (Acrónimo: METAFLUIDICS), Founding Agency: European Union H2020. 30/06/2016 – 31/01/2020. Funding 8 millones euros.
