Margo G. Haygood

OGI Distinguished Professor in Marine and Biomolecular Systems, Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems Affiliate Scientist, Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction

B.A. magna cum laude, History and Science, Harvard University, 1976
Ph.D., Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1984
Molecular Evolution Workshop, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 1991

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego,Graduate Student, with Kenneth H Nealson, 1977-79; 1981-84
• University of Tokyo, Misaki Marine Biological Station, Monbusho Scholar, 1979-81
• University of Washington, Postdoctoral Fellow with Mary E. Lidstrom, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, 1984-85
• Office of Naval Research, Scientific Officer, Biological Sciences Division, Molecular Biology Program, 1985-86
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; Assistant Professor, 1987-1995; Associate Professor, 1995-2002; Professor, 2002-2006

Environmental microbiology; bacterial physiology; bacterial evolution, marine biotechnology

Lim-Fong, G. E.; Regali, L. A.; Haygood, M. G. (2008) Evolutionary relationships of "Candidatus endobugula" bacterial symbionts and their Bugula bryozoan hosts. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(11), 3605-3609.

Sharp, K. H.; Eam, B.; Faulkner, D. J.; Haygood, M. G. (2007) Vertical transmission of diverse microbes in the tropical sponge Corticium sp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(2), 622-629.

Anderson, C. M.; Haygood, M. G. (2007) Alpha-proteobacterial symbionts of marine bryozoans in the genus Watersipora. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(1), 303-311.

Sudek, S.; Lopanik, N. B.; Waggoner, L. E.; Hildebrand, M.; Anderson, C.; Liu, H.; Patel, A.; Sherman, D. H.; Haygood, M. G. (2007) Identification of the putative bryostatin polyketide synthase gene cluster from "Candidatus Endobugula sertula", the uncultivated microbial symbiont of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina. Journal of Natural Products, 70(1), 67-74.

Donia, M. S.; Hathaway, B. J.; Sudek, S.; Haygood, M. G.; Rosovitz, M. J.; Ravel, J.; Schmidt, E. W. (2006) Natural combinatorial peptide libraries in cyanobacterial symbionts of marine ascidians. Nature Chemical Biology, 2(12), 729-735.

Sudek, S.; Haygood, M. G.; Youssef, D. T. A.; Schmidt, E. W. (2006) Structure of trichamide, a cyclic peptide from the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum, predicted from the genome sequence. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72(6), 4382-4387.

Martin, J. D.; Ito, Y.; Homann, V. V.; Haygood, M. G.; Butler, A. (2006) Structure and membrane affinity of new amphiphilic siderophores produced by Ochrobactrum sp. SP18. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 11(5), 633-641.

Ridley, C. P.; Faulkner, D. J.; Haygood, M. G. (2005) Investigation of Oscillatoria spongeliae-dominated bacterial communities in four dictyoceratid sponges. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(11), 7366-7375.

Ridley, C. P.; Bergquist, P. R.; Harper, M. K.; Faulkner, D. J.; Hooper, J. N. A.; Haygood, M. G. (2005) Speciation and biosynthetic variation in four dictyoceratid sponges and their cyanobacterial symbiont, Oscillatoria spongeliae. Chemistry & Biology, 12(3), 397-406.

Hildebrand, M.; Waggoner, L. E.; Liu, H.; Sudek, S.; Allen, S.; Anderson, C.; Sherman, D. H.; Haygood, M.. (2004) bryA: An unusual modular polyketide synthase gene from the uncultivated bacterial symbiont of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina. Chemistry & Biology, 11(11), 1543-1552.

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