Benjamin Van Mooy

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Benjamin Van Mooy
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NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation
  • Oceanographer
  • Senior scientist

Benjamin Van Mooy is an Oceanography and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His work primarily focuses on chemical oceanography, with a particular focus on the production and Remineralisation of marine organic matter.

He is credited with the discovery of sulfolipid substitution for Phospholipid in Plankton in times of Limiting nutrient[1], and the production of viral Glycosphingolipid as a result of infection from Coccolithovirus in Emiliania huxleyi[2].

References

  1. Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S.; Fredricks, Helen F.; Pedler, Byron E.; Dyhrman, Sonya T.; Karl, David M.; Koblízek, Michal; Lomas, Michael W.; Mincer, Tracy J.; Moore, Lisa R.; Moutin, Thierry; Rappé, Michael S. (2009-03-05). "Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity". Nature. 458 (7234): 69–72. Bibcode:2009Natur.458...69V. doi:10.1038/nature07659. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 19182781.
  2. Vardi, Assaf; Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S.; Fredricks, Helen F.; Popendorf, Kimberly J.; Ossolinski, Justin E.; Haramaty, Liti; Bidle, Kay D. (2009-11-06). "Viral glycosphingolipids induce lytic infection and cell death in marine phytoplankton". Science (New York, N.Y.). 326 (5954): 861–865. Bibcode:2009Sci...326..861V. doi:10.1126/science.1177322. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 19892986.

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