Edward DeLong

Edward Francis DeLong (born 1958), is a marine

Early life and education

DeLong was born in

With Pace and his group at Indiana University, DeLong developed a method that can be used to identify single cells phylogenetically through the use of

In the years following, DeLong's work took him to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and it is during his time there that he made a crucial discovery in the understanding of the Earth's carbon and energy cycles. A team of microbiologists led by DeLong discovered a gene in several species of bacteria^[4] responsible for production of the protein rhodopsin, previously unheard of in the domain Bacteria. These proteins found in the cell membranes are capable of converting light energy to biochemical energy due to a change in configuration of the rhodopsin molecule as sunlight strikes it, causing the pumping of a proton from inside out and a subsequent inflow that generates the energy.^[5] In 2004, DeLong moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on developing gene expression studies targeting microbial communities in the wild. At MIT, his collaborations with CMORE and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute colleagues, he discovered of highly synchronized microbial populations having oscillating patterns of gene expression^[6] across many species. In 2014, DeLong relocated to the University of Hawaii, where he serves as co-director for the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, C-MORE^[7] and the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology, SCOPE.^[8]

Honoraria, fellowships, and memberships

• Honorary Professorship, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1999–2002
• Elected Fellow in the
  American Academy of Microbiology
  , August 2000
• Moore Investigator in Marine Microbiology, August, 2004
• Elected Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, May 2005
• In April 2008, DeLong was presented with the Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal for “important contributions to geomicrobiology and biogeochemical cycling through the innovative use of molecular tools and a genomic approach” at the European Geosciences Union^[9]
• Elected Fellow in the National Academy of Sciences, April 2008
• The American Society for Microbiology presented DeLong with the Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology in May 2008 and the D.C. White Research and Mentoring Award in February 2009
• Elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011
• UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award, UC Davis, 2012
• Moore Investigator in Marine Microbiology, 2012
• A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences, 2014
• Elected Member in the European Molecular Biology Association EMBO, 2015^[10]
• Elected President of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)

See also

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• Thermoproteota
• Proteorhodopsin

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