Robert Porch

Microbial ecology, bioinformatics, and education

  • Porch, R., Lambert, S., & Louca, S. (2026). FAPROTAX2-mapper: A tool for phenotypic predictions in 16S rRNA microbiome surveys. In submission.
  • Porch, R., Taylor, T.J., Nassib, A., Versteeg, L., Ellis, A.C., Keane, L.E., Roy-Hart, M., Grunkemeier, E., Stephens, P.C., Ryan, A.M., Williams, S., Qi, W., Loreto, O., Grover, L.M., Peairson, J., Simpson, E., Schnider, J.S., Smith, A.M., Pederson, B.A., Hoskins, J.A., Bonnet, L., & Louca, S. (2026). FAPROTAX2-db: A database of experimentally validated bacterial and archaeal metabolic functions. In review.
  • Korchagina, M.V., Mullin, C.E., Soufi, H.H., Lambert, S., Moran, I.G., Porch, R., Albright, S.E., Montgomery, A.S., Jones, L.M., Malamoud, N., Jin, Q., Wood, A.M., & Louca, S. Genome-resolved metagenomic survey of 500 samples from 56 hot springs across the Western US. (2026). Nature Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07139-w.
  • Soufi, H.H., Porch, R., Korchagina, M.V., Abrams, J.A., Schnider, J.S., Carr, B.D., Williams, M.A., & Louca, S. Taxonomic variability and functional stability across Oregon coastal subsurface microbiomes. (2024). Communications Biology, 7(1): 1663. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07384-y.
  • Meyer, K.M., Porch, R., Muscettola, I.E., Vasconcelos, A.L.S., Sherman, J.K., Metcalf, J.E., Lindow, S.E., & Koskella, B. Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome. (2022). The ISME Journal 16(5): 1376-1387. https://doi.org/10.1038s41396-021-01184-6.