Education

Ph.D of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, U.K., 2012

Current position

Assistant Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, USA

Publications (since 2005)

1. Young, J. N., Heureux, A. M., Sharwood, R. E., Rickaby, R. E., Morel, F. M. and Whitney, S. M. (2016). Large variation in the Rubisco kinetics of diatoms reveals diversity among their carbon-concentrating mechanisms. J Exp Bot 67(11): 3445-3456.
2. Young, J. N. and Morel, F. M. M. (2015). Biological oceanography: The CO2 switch in diatoms. Nature Clim. Change 5: 722-723.
3. Young, J. N., Kranz, S., Goldman, J., Tortell, P. D. and Morel, F. M. M. (2015). Antarctic phytoplankton down-regulate their carbon-concentrating mechanisms under high CO2 with no change in growth rates. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 532: 13-28.
4. Young, J. N., Goldman, J. A., Kranz, S. A., Tortell, P. D. and Morel, F. M. (2015). Slow carboxylation of Rubisco constrains the rate of carbon fixation during Antarctic phytoplankton blooms. New Phytol 205(1): 172-181.
5. Goldman, J. A., Kranz, S. A., Young, J. N., Tortell, P. D., Stanley, R. H., Bender, M. L. and Morel, F. M. (2015). Gross and net production during the spring bloom along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. New Phytol 205(1): 182-191.
6. Kranz, S. A., Young, J. N., Hopkinson, B. M., Goldman, J. A., Tortell, P. D. and Morel, F. M. (2015). Low temperature reduces the energetic requirement for the CO2 concentrating mechanism in diatoms. New Phytol 205(1): 192-201.
7. Hopkinson, B. M., Young, J. N., Tansik, A. L. and Binder, B. J. (2014). The minimal CO2-concentrating mechanism of Prochlorococcus spp. MED4 is effective and efficient. Plant Physiol 166(4): 2205-2217.
8. Tortell, P. D., Asher, E. C., Dacey, J. W. H., Kranz, S., Young, J. N., Goldman, J., Ducklow, H., Grzymski, J., Stanley, R. and Morel, F. M. M. (2014). Metabolic balance of coastal Antarctic waters revealed by autonomous pCO2 and ΔO2/Ar measurements. Geophys Res Lett.
9. Young, J. N., Bruggeman, J., Rickaby, R. E. M., Erez, J. and Conte, M. (2013). Evidence of changes in isotopic fractionation by phytoplankton between 1960 and 2010. Global Biogeochem Cy 27(2): 505-515.
10. Losh, J., Young, J. N. and Morel, F. M. (2013). Rubisco is a small fraction of total protein in marine phytoplankton. New Phytol 198(1): 52-58.
11. Young, J. N., Rickaby, R. E., Kapralov, M. V. and Filatov, D. A. (2012). Adaptive signals in algal Rubisco reveal a history of ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367(1588): 483-492.
12. Rickaby, R. E. M., Henderiks, J. and Young, J. N. (2010). Perturbing phytoplankton: a tale of isotopic fractionation in two coccolithophore species. Clim. Past Discuss. 6:257-294.
13. Onate-Sanchez, L., Anderson, J. P., Young, J. and Singh, K. B. (2007). AtERF14, a member of the ERF family of transcription factors, plays a nonredundant role in plant defense. Plant Physiol 143(1): 400-409.
14. Marks, D. J. B., Harbourd, M. W. N., MacAllister, R., Rahman, R. Z., Young, J. N., Al-Lazikani, B., Lees, W., Novelli, M., Bloom, S. and Segal, A. (2006). Defective acute inflammation in Crohn’s disease: a clinical investigation. The Lancet 367:668-678.