Victoria J. Orphan

California Institute of Technology — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena(175), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology(163), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics(70), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis(48), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(33)

Publications334 total

Microbially mediated carbon utilization by a cold-water coral inhabiting methane seeps
Scientific Reports·2026Open Access
Algal Biomaterials From Recycled Wastewater Biomass
Journal of Polymer Science·2026Open Access
Cycling of sulfur redox intermediates drives microbial activity in the sulfate–methane transition zone of cold methane seeps
2025
Methanogenic archaea encoding Pyrrolysine maintain ambiguous amber codon usage
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Carbon monoxide oxidation expands the known metabolic capacity in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Phage-mediated lysis increases growth rate of surviving bacterial cells
2025Open Access
Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia
Science Advances·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Illuminating the active virosphere with BONCAT and single virus genomic sequencing technologies
2025Open Access
Preparation of Cuvette‐Based Sorters for Sorting Submicron Microbial Cells and Viruses from Environmental and Biological Samples
Current Protocols·2025
Deep sea anaerobic microbial community couples the degradation of insoluble chitin to extracellular electron transfer
2025Open Access
Spatial evidence of cryptic methane cycling and methylotrophic metabolisms along a land–ocean transect in salt marsh sediment
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Viral communities from long-term anaerobic alkane-oxidizing enrichments may promote cell surface adhesion
2025Open Access
Deep sea anaerobic microbial community couples the degradation of insoluble chitin to extracellular electron transfer
2025Open Access
Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in <i>Candidatus</i> Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
Science Advances·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seep <i>Sericosura</i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
The Ambiguous Genetic Code of Methanogenic Archaea that Grow on Methylamines
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Clear as mud redefined: Tunable transparent mineral scaffolds for visualizing microbial processes below ground
PNAS Nexus·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
CABO-16S—a Combined Archaea, Bacteria, Organelle 16S rRNA database framework for amplicon analysis of prokaryotes and eukaryotes in environmental samples
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Diversity and single-cell activity of endolithic microbes in sediment-hosted carbonate nodules within and below the sulfate-methane transition zone
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Distinct Microbial Communities Within and On Seep Carbonates Support Long-term Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane and Novel pMMO Diversity
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Grayson L. Chadwick(9), Christopher H. House(7), Shana K. Goffredi(7), Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs(6), Edward F. DeLong(5), William Ussler(5), Shawn E. McGlynn(5), Patricia L. Tavormina(5), Gene W. Tyson(4), Roland Hatzenpichler(4), Antje Boëtius(3), C. K. Paull(3), Anne Dekas(3), Katherine S. Dawson(3), K. D. McKeegan(2), Emily J. Beal(2), Lance T. Taylor(2), Sean P. Sylva(2), Silvan Scheller(2), Hang Yu(2)