Curtis A. Suttle
Curtis A. Suttle is a Canadian microbiologist and oceanographer who is a faculty member at the University of British Columbia. Suttle is a Distinguished University Professor[1] who holds appointments in Earth & Ocean Sciences,[2] Botany,[3] Microbiology & Immunology[4] and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries[5] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. On 29 December, 2021 he was named to the Order of Canada.[6] His research is focused on the ecology of viruses in marine systems as well as other natural environments.
Biography
Suttle completed both his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at the University of British Columbia.[citation needed] He worked in several positions at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1987 - 1988 before joining the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute. In 1996, he returned to the University of British Columbia as a tenure line faculty member, where he currently holds the rank of Professor and Distinguished University Scholar. Suttle was the Associate Dean for Research of the Faculty of Science from 2001 to 2013.[4]
Research
Suttle completed his doctoral studies under the guidance of Paul J Harrison.[7] Suttle's research focused on nitrogen[8] and phosphorus[9] as well as grazing effects on freshwater phytoplankton.[10] He published his first paper on viruses in marine systems in 1990 - the paper was co-authored by Amy Chan and then graduate student Matt Cottrell and focused on the lysis of eukaryotic phytoplankton. Since then, he has published numerous paper on viruses infecting bacteria, phytoplankton and invertebrate grazers. In 1999, he co-authored the first paper to describe the "Viral Shunt" with his former postdoctoral fellow Steven Wilhelm. This work was awarded the John H Martin Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in 2021, in recognition for the paper establishing the importance of viruses in biogeochemical cycles. Along with this work, he has contributed high profile publications in the journals Nature,[11] Science,[12] and Nature Reviews Microbiology.[13] From his publications, Suttle has an Erdős number of 3 (having published with Eugene Koonin).
Suttle's interests continue to focus on viruses, and include the continued development of biomolecular tools to study virus diversity and function in natural systems.[13] His lab (work led by graduate student Matthias Fisher) was the first to describe the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus.[citation needed] In 2019 his research team uncovered a series of viruses in endangered Pacific Salmon populations.[14]
Awards and honors
Suttle received NSERC undergraduate (1982-1984) and postdoctoral (1988) awards as part of his training.[citation needed] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008,[citation needed] appointed to The Order of Canada in 2021,[15] received the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science in 2010), the Timothy R Parson Medal for Excellence in Ocean Sciences in 2011), and the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award for excellence in limnology or oceanography.[citation needed] He was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2014, and named a sustaining Fellow of ASLO in 2016.[citation needed] In 2004, he was given the Teaching Award in Environmental Earth Sciences from the University of British Columbia Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Distinguished University Scholar Program | Vice President Academic". academic.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ "Curtis Suttle | Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ "Research Faculty #26 | UBC Botany". botany.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ a b "Suttle Lab | Microbiology & Immunology @ UBC". www.microbiology.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ "Curtis Suttle | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries". oceans.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ General, Office of the Secretary to the Governor (2021-12-20). "Governor General announces 135 new appointments to the Order of Canada". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
- ^ "In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Paul J Harrison, FRSC | Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ Suttle, Curtis A.; Harrison, Paul J. (1988). "Ammonium and phosphate uptake kinetics of size-fractionated plankton from an oligotrophic freshwater lake". Journal of Plankton Research. 10 (1): 133–149. doi:10.1093/plankt/10.1.133. ISSN 0142-7873.
- ^ Suttle, C. A.; Harrison, P. J. (1986-08-01). "Phosphate Uptake Rates of Phytoplankton Assemblages Grown at Different Dilution Rates in Semicontinuous Culture". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 43 (8): 1474–1481. doi:10.1139/f86-184. ISSN 0706-652X. S2CID 84980151.
- ^ Suttle, C.A.; Chan, Amy M.; Taylor, W.D.; Harrison, P.J. (1986). "Grazing of planktonic diatoms by microflagellates". Journal of Plankton Research. 8 (2): 393–398. doi:10.1093/plankt/8.2.393. ISSN 0142-7873.
- ^ Suttle, Curtis A.; Chan, Amy M.; Cottrell, Matthew T. (1990). "Infection of phytoplankton by viruses and reduction of primary productivity". Nature. 347 (6292): 467–469. Bibcode:1990Natur.347..467S. doi:10.1038/347467a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4359720.
- ^ Culley, Alexander I.; Lang, Andrew S.; Suttle, Curtis A. (2006-06-23). "Metagenomic Analysis of Coastal RNA Virus Communities". Science. 312 (5781): 1795–1798. Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1795C. doi:10.1126/science.1127404. PMID 16794078. S2CID 20194876.
- ^ a b Suttle, Curtis A. (2007). "Marine viruses — major players in the global ecosystem". Nature Reviews Microbiology. 5 (10): 801–812. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1750. ISSN 1740-1534. PMID 17853907. S2CID 4658457.
- ^ "New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ General, Office of the Secretary to the Governor (2021-12-20). "Governor General announces 135 appointments to the Order of Canada". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
