Publications (career citation metrics: 240 citations, h-index= 8, i10-index= 8)
Henson, M.W., Lanclos, V.C., Pitre, D.M., Weckhorst, J.L., Lucchesi, A.M., Cheng, C., Temperton, B. and Thrash, C. (2020). Expanding the diversity of bacterioplankton isolates and modeling isolation efficacy with large scale dilution-to-extinction cultivation. Submitted to AEM. bioRxiv.
Henson, M.W., Guidry, M.E., Carnes, M.K., Thrash, J.C. (2020). Draft genome sequence of the novel coastal bacterium LSUCC0115 from the MWH-UniPo clade, Order Burkholderiales, Class Betaproteobacteria. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9(2), pp.e01492-19
Lanclos, V.C., Henson, M.W., Dorion, C., Thrash, J.C. (2019). Draft genome of strain LSUCC0057, a member of the SAR92 clade of Gammaproteobacteria. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(25), pp.e00599-19.
Coelho, J.T., Henson, M.W., Thrash, J.C. (2019). Draft genome sequence of strain LSUCC0112, a Gulf of Mexico representative of the Oligotrophic Marine Gammaproteobacteria. Microbiology resource announcements 8(27), pp.e00521-19.
Learman, D.R., Ahmand, Z., Brookshier, A., Henson, M.W., Hewitt, V., Lis, A., Morrison, C., Robinson, A., Todaro, E., Wologo, E., Wynne, S., Alm, E.W., Kourtev, P.S., Santo Domingo, J.W. (2019). Comparative genomics of 16 Microbacterium spp. that tolerate multiple heavy metals and antibiotics. PeerJ 6, pp.e6258
Craine, J., M. W. Henson, J. C. Thrash, J. Hanssen, G. Spooner, P. Fleming, M. Pukonen, F. Stahr, S. Spaulding, and N. Fierer. (2018). Environmental DNA reveals the structure of phytoplankton assemblages along a 2900-km transect in the Mississippi River. bioRxiv
Henson M.W., Hanssen J, Spooner G, Flemming P, Pukonen M, Stahr F, Thrash, J.C. (2018). Microbial regime changes and indicators of eutrophication on the Mississippi River identified via a human-powered 2900 km transect. Limnology and Oceanography 63(5), pp.1837-1855.
Henson, M.W., Lanclos, V.C., Faircloth, B.C., Thrash, J.C. (2018). Cultivation and genomics of the first freshwater SAR11 (LD12) isolate. ISME Journal 12, pp.1846–1860.
Lanclos, V.C., Henson, M.W., Pitre, D.M. and Thrash, J.C. (2016). Draft genome sequence of strain LSUCC0135, an early diverging member of the order Methylophilales in the phylum Betaproteobacteria. Genome announcements 4(6), pp.e01231-16.
Henson, M.W., Pitre, D.M., Weckhorst, J.L., Lanclos, V.C., Webber, A.T., Thrash, J.C. (2016). Artificial seawater media facilitates cultivating members of the microbial majority from the Gulf of Mexico. mSphere 1(2), pp.e00028-16 Editor’s pick
Learman, D.R., Henson, M.W., Thrash, J.C., Temperton, B., Brannock, P., Mahon, A., Halanych, K.H. (2016) Biogeochemical and microbial variation across 5500 km of Antarctic surface sediment implicates organic matter as a driver of benthic community structure. Frontiers in Microbiology: Aquatic Microbiology 7, pp.284.
Ni, C., Horton, D. J., Rui, J., Henson, M.W., Jiang, Y., Huang, X., & Learman, D. R. (2016). High concentrations of bioavailable heavy metals impact freshwater sediment microbial communities. Annals of Microbiology 66, pp.1003–1012.
Henson M.W., Santo Domingo J.W., Kourtev P.S., Jensen R.V., Dunn J.A., Learman D.R. (2015). Metabolic and genomic analysis elucidates strain-level variation in Microbacterium spp. isolated from chromate contaminated sediment. PeerJ 3, pp.e1395
Ryu, H., Henson, M., Elk, M., Toledo-Hernandez, C., Griffith, J., Blackwood, D., Noble, R., Gourmelon, M., Glassmeyer, S., and Santo Domingo, J. (2013). Development of quantitative PCR assays targeting 16S rRNA gene of Enterococcus spp. and their application to the identification of Enterococcus species in environmental samples. Applied Environmental Microbiology. 79(1), pp.196-204.
Funding
2017 - 2018 Lerner Gray Grant, “Examining the functional differences of two important SAR11 subclades and its insights on how salinity changes may alter global biogeochemical cycles.” American Natural History Museum, $2500
2015 - 2016 LEEC Research Grant, “Assessment of wetlands on the Louisiana coast using baseline microbial community structure and developing microbial indices”, LA Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, $1138