User:Benjamin Bolduc
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Contact Info
- Benjamin Bolduc
- Riffe Building 932
- Ohio State University
- Columbus, OH, USA
- bolduc.10@osu.edu
Education
- 2014, PhD, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
- 2007, BS, Stonehill College, Easton, MA
Background and Research interests
Ben joined the Sullivan and Rich lab in May 2014 from Montana State University, Bozeman. His Ph.D. work, under the guidance of Mark Young, focused on isolating RNA viruses from acidic, thermophilic environments in Yellowstone National Park and developing bioinformatic/wet lab protocols to generate and analyze viral metagenomes out of these extreme environments. He continued his PhD work into his postdoc at MSU and also began work developing network-based tools to analyze viral metagenomes and using large scale databases for storing sequence information.
In the Sullivan lab, Ben will apply phageFISH in exploring the influence of nutrients on virus-host interactions as well as assist in identifying novel viral populations out of microbial datasets. In the Rich lab, Ben is working to design a consortium-level database to serve as a data repository and analysis tool for a wide array of complex datasets. Together, these projects seek to uncover the nature of viruses in natural ecosystems and ultimately their intimate relation with their hosts.
Publications
Bolduc, B, Youens-Clark, K., Roux, S., Hurwitz B.L., Sullivan, M.B. (2016) iVirus: facilitating new insights in viral ecology with software and community data sets imbedded in a cyberinfrastructure. ISME J. In press.
Bolduc, B., J. Wirth, A. Mazurie, and M.J. Young. (2015) Viral Community Composition in Yellowstone Acidic Hot Springs Assessed by Network Analysis. ISME J. 9:2162-2177.
Dellas, N., J.C. Snyder, B. Bolduc, and M.J. Young. (2014) Archaeal viruses: diversity, replication and structure. (invited review) Annu. Rev. Virol. 1: 399-426.
Bolduc, B., D.P. Shaughnessy, Y. I. Wolf, E.V. Koonin, F.F. Roberto, and M.J. Young. (2012) Identification of Novel Positive-Strand RNA Viruses by Metagenomic Analysis of Archaea-Dominated Yellowstone Hot Springs. J. Virology. 86:10.
Snyder, J.C., B. Bolduc, M.M. Bateson, and M.J. Young (2011) The prevalence of STIV c92-like proteins within acidic thermal environments. Adv. Virol. 2011:1.
Brammer, L.A., B. Bolduc, J.L. Kass, K.M. Felice, C.J. Noren, and M.F. Hall (2007) A target-unrelated peptide in an M13 phage display library traced to an advantageous mutation in the gene II ribosome-binding site. Anal. Biochem. 373:1