Don A Cowan

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2019-2024
Publications (10 Years): 25

Top Venues

FEMS microbiology ecology

PLoS biology

Communications biology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

University of Pretoria

University of Waikato (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Pretoria

South Africa

Director, Genomics Research Institute :: Genetics

University of the Western Cape Faculty of Natural Science

South Africa

Director, Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics :: Biotechnology

Education History

University of Waikato

New Zealand

PHD :: School of Science

Publications

Girish R Nair, Bhaveni B Kooverjee, Storme de Scally, Don A Cowan, Thulani Peter Makhalanyane
Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils. FEMS microbiology ecology 100 (6) (2024)
Jason Bosch, Pedro H Lebre, Eugene Marais, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
Kinetics and pathways of sub-lithic microbial community (hypolithon) development. Environmental microbiology reports 16 (3) (2024)
Carlos León-Sobrino, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Clément Coclet, Ritha-Meriam Kapitango, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils. FEMS microbiology ecology (2024)
Girish R Nair, Bhaveni B Kooverjee, Storme de Scally, Don A Cowan, Thulani Peter Makhalanyane
Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils. FEMS microbiology ecology (2024)
Girish R Nair, Bhaveni B Kooverjee, Storme de Scally, Don A Cowan, Thulani Peter Makhalanyane
Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils. FEMS microbiology ecology 100 (6) (2024)
Girish R Nair, Bhaveni B Kooverjee, Storme de Scally, Don A Cowan, Thulani Peter Makhalanyane
Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils. FEMS microbiology ecology 100 (6) (2024)
Carlos León-Sobrino, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Clément Coclet, Ritha-Meriam Kapitango, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils. FEMS microbiology ecology 100 (3) (2024)
Carlos León-Sobrino, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Clément Coclet, Ritha-Meriam Kapitango, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils. FEMS microbiology ecology 100 (3) (2024)
Jason Bosch, Pedro H Lebre, Eugene Marais, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
Kinetics and pathways of sub-lithic microbial community (hypolithon) development. Environmental microbiology reports 16 (3) (2024)
Martínez-Alvarez Laura, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Surendra Vikram, Carlos León-Sobrino, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
With a pinch of salt: metagenomic insights into Namib Desert salt pan microbial mats and halites reveal functionally adapted and competitive communities. Applied and environmental microbiology (2023)
Riaan F Rifkin, Surendra Vikram, Jaime Alcorta, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Don A Cowan, Mattias Jakobsson, Carina M Schlebusch, Marlize Lombard
Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Riaan F Rifkin, Surendra Vikram, Jaime Alcorta, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Don A Cowan, Mattias Jakobsson, Carina M Schlebusch, Marlize Lombard
Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Riaan F Rifkin, Surendra Vikram, Jaime Alcorta, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Don A Cowan, Mattias Jakobsson, Carina M Schlebusch, Marlize Lombard
Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Riaan F Rifkin, Surendra Vikram, Jaime Alcorta, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Don A Cowan, Mattias Jakobsson, Carina M Schlebusch, Marlize Lombard
Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago. Communications biology 6 (1) (2023)
Jasmine R Lee, Aleks Terauds, Josie Carwardine, Justine D Shaw, Richard A Fuller, Hugh P Possingham, Steven L Chown, Peter Convey, Neil Gilbert, Kevin Andrew Hughes, Ewan McIvor, Sharon A Robinson, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Dana M Bergstrom, Elisabeth Machteld Biersma, Claire Christian, Don A Cowan, Yves Frenot, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Lisa Kelley, Michael J Lee, Heather J Lynch, Birgit Njåstad, Antonio Quesada, Ricardo M Roura, E Ashley Shaw, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Megumu Tsujimoto, Diana H Wall, Annick Wilmotte, Iadine Chadès
Threat management priorities for conserving Antarctic biodiversity. PLoS biology 20 (12) (2022)
Ramona Marasco, Marco Fusi, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Marc W Van Goethem, Kholoud Seferji, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan, Daniele Daffonchio
The plant rhizosheath-root niche is an edaphic "mini-oasis" in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition. ISME communications 2 (1) (2022)
Jasmine R Lee, Aleks Terauds, Josie Carwardine, Justine D Shaw, Richard A Fuller, Hugh P Possingham, Steven L Chown, Peter Convey, Neil Gilbert, Kevin Andrew Hughes, Ewan McIvor, Sharon A Robinson, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Dana M Bergstrom, Elisabeth Machteld Biersma, Claire Christian, Don A Cowan, Yves Frenot, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Lisa Kelley, Michael J Lee, Heather J Lynch, Birgit Njåstad, Antonio Quesada, Ricardo M Roura, E Ashley Shaw, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Megumu Tsujimoto, Diana H Wall, Annick Wilmotte, Iadine Chadès
Threat management priorities for conserving Antarctic biodiversity. PLoS biology 20 (12) (2022)
Jasmine R Lee, Aleks Terauds, Josie Carwardine, Justine D Shaw, Richard A Fuller, Hugh P Possingham, Steven L Chown, Peter Convey, Neil Gilbert, Kevin Andrew Hughes, Ewan McIvor, Sharon A Robinson, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Dana M Bergstrom, Elisabeth Machteld Biersma, Claire Christian, Don A Cowan, Yves Frenot, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Lisa Kelley, Michael J Lee, Heather J Lynch, Birgit Njåstad, Antonio Quesada, Ricardo M Roura, E Ashley Shaw, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Megumu Tsujimoto, Diana H Wall, Annick Wilmotte, Iadine Chadès
Threat management priorities for conserving Antarctic biodiversity. PLoS biology 20 (12) (2022)
Jasmine R Lee, Aleks Terauds, Josie Carwardine, Justine D Shaw, Richard A Fuller, Hugh P Possingham, Steven L Chown, Peter Convey, Neil Gilbert, Kevin Andrew Hughes, Ewan McIvor, Sharon A Robinson, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Dana M Bergstrom, Elisabeth Machteld Biersma, Claire Christian, Don A Cowan, Yves Frenot, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Lisa Kelley, Michael J Lee, Heather J Lynch, Birgit Njåstad, Antonio Quesada, Ricardo M Roura, E Ashley Shaw, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Megumu Tsujimoto, Diana H Wall, Annick Wilmotte, Iadine Chadès
Threat management priorities for conserving Antarctic biodiversity. PLoS biology 20 (12) (2022)
Angelique E Ray, Julian Zaugg, Nicole Benaud, Devan S Chelliah, Sean K Bay, Hon Lun Wong, Pok Man Leung, Mukan Ji, Aleks Terauds, Kate Montgomery, Chris Greening, Don A Cowan, Weidong Kong, Timothy J Williams, Philip Hugenholtz, Belinda C Ferrari
Atmospheric chemosynthesis is phylogenetically and geographically widespread and contributes significantly to carbon fixation throughout cold deserts. The ISME journal 16 (11) (2022)
Jasmine R Lee, Aleks Terauds, Josie Carwardine, Justine D Shaw, Richard A Fuller, Hugh P Possingham, Steven L Chown, Peter Convey, Neil Gilbert, Kevin Andrew Hughes, Ewan McIvor, Sharon A Robinson, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Dana M Bergstrom, Elisabeth Machteld Biersma, Claire Christian, Don A Cowan, Yves Frenot, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Lisa Kelley, Michael J Lee, Heather J Lynch, Birgit Njåstad, Antonio Quesada, Ricardo M Roura, E Ashley Shaw, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Megumu Tsujimoto, Diana H Wall, Annick Wilmotte, Iadine Chadès
Threat management priorities for conserving Antarctic biodiversity. PLoS biology 20 (12) (2022)
Surendra Vikram, Joel D Arneodo, Javier Calcagno, Maximiliano Ortiz, Maria Laura Mon, Clara Etcheverry, Don A Cowan, Paola Talia
Diversity structure of the microbial communities in the guts of four neotropical termite species. PeerJ 9 (2021)
Maximiliano Ortiz, Pok Man Leung, Guy Shelley, Thanavit Jirapanjawat, Philipp A Nauer, Marc W Van Goethem, Sean K Bay, Zahra F Islam, Karen Jordaan, Surendra Vikram, Steven L Chown, Ian D Hogg, Thulani Peter Makhalanyane, Rhys W Grinter, Don A Cowan, Chris Greening
Multiple energy sources and metabolic strategies sustain microbial diversity in Antarctic desert soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (45) (2021)
Gemma E Collins, Ian D Hogg, Peter Convey, Leopoldo G Sancho, Don A Cowan, W Berry Lyons, Byron J Adams, Diana H Wall, T G Allan Green
Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (36) (2020)
Gemma E Collins, Ian D Hogg, Janine R Baxter, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A Cowan
Ancient landscapes of the Namib Desert harbor high levels of genetic variability and deeply divergent lineages for Collembola. Ecology and evolution 9 (8) (2019)

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