Farooq Azam
Farooq Azam (born in Lahore, Pakistan ) is a researcher in the field of marine microbiology. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the University of California San Diego. Farooq Azam grew up in Lahore and received his early education in Lahore. He attended University of Punjab, where he received his B.Sc. in chemistry. He later he received his M.Sc. from the same institution. He then went to Czechoslovakia for higher studies. He received his PhD in microbiology from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. After he received his PhD, Farooq Azam moved to California. Azam was the lead author on the paper which coined the term microbial loop. This 1983 paper involved a synthesis between a number of leaders in the (then) young field of microbial ecology, specifically, Azam, Tom Fenchel, J Field, J Gray, L Meyer-Reil and Tron Frede Thingstad.In addition to introducing the concept of the microbial loop Azam is responsible for bringing conceptual advances in several areas of marine microbiology. He is a leader in identifying the importance of microscale patchiness in the marine environment, and that bacteria can respond to patchiness in nutrient fields and particulate organic matter. This area of research is now pursued more actively in the field at large with the introduction of advanced digital and single cell imaging. He and then graduate student Kay Bidle also showed that the dissolution of diatom frustules was accelerated by bacteria, as opposed to being a strictly abiotic process as previously thought. He and former post-doctoral researcher Alexandra Worden introduced the concept of Eco-systems Biology in 2004. Eco-systems Biology (or Ecosystems Biology) has since been adopted by the field, empowered by the advent of high-throughput sequencing platforms. Provided by Wikipedia
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10by Steward, Grieg F., Montiel, Janine L., Azam, FarooqGet access
Published in Limnology and Oceanography (2000)
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11by Steward, Grieg F., Fandino, Laura B., Hollibaugh, James T., Whitledge, Terry E., Azam, FarooqGet access
Published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers (2007)
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13by Manganelli, Maura, Malfatti, Francesca, Samo, Ty J., Mitchell, B. Greg, Wang, Haili, Azam, FarooqGet access
Published in PLoS ONE (2009)
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14by Ducklow, Hugh W., Dickson, Mary-Lynn, Kirchman, David L., Steward, Grieg, Orchardo, Joe, Marra, John, Azam, FarooqGet access
Published in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography (2000)
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15by Jiang, Mingshun, Barbeau, Katherine, Selph, Karen, Measures, Christopher, Buck, Kristen N., Azam, Farooq, Mitchell, B. Greg, Zhou, MengGet access
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16by Jiang, Mingshun, Barbeau, Katherine, Selph, Karen, Measures, Christopher, Buck, Kristen N., Azam, Farooq, Mitchell, B. Greg, Zhou, MengGet access
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17by Jiang, Mingshun, Barbeau, Katherine A., Selph, Karen E., Measures, Christopher I., Buck, Kristen N., Azam, Farooq, Greg Mitchell, B., Zhou, MengGet access
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18by Bolch, Tobias, Shea, Joseph M., Liu, Shiyin, Azam, Farooq M., Gao, Yang, Gruber, Stephan, Immerzeel, Walter W., Kulkarni, Anil, Li, Huilin, Tahir, Adnan A., Zhang, Guoqing, Zhang, YinshengGet access
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20by Bolch, Tobias, Shea, Joseph M., Liu, Shiyin, Azam, Farooq M., Gao, Yang, Gruber, Stephan, Immerzeel, Walter W., Kulkarni, Anil, Li, Huilin, Tahir, Adnan A., Zhang, Guoqing, Zhang, YinshengGet access
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