Education
Ph.D. in Chemistry, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (2024)
B.S. in Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC (2017)
Other Publications
Beals D.G.*, Carper D.L.*, Hochanadel L.H., Jawdy S.S., Klingeman D.M., Piatkowski B.T., Weston D.J., Doktycz M.J., Pelletier D.A. 2026. Genomic signatures in Variovorax enabling colonization of the Populus endosphere. mSystems 11:e01605-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01605-25 . * Co-first authors.
Beals D.G., Carrell A.A., Rodriguez B., Alexander W.G., Schadt C.W., Hochanadel L.H., Podar M., Pelletier D.A. 2026. Complete genome sequences of five Variovorax strains isolated from the Populus rhizosphere and endosphere. Microbiology Resource Announcements 15:e00990-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00990-25
Robes J.M.D., Liebergesell T.C.E., Beals D.G., Yu X., Brazelton W.J., Puri A.W. 2025. Inverse stable isotope probing–metabolomics (InverSIP) identifies an iron acquisition system in a methane-oxidizing bacterial community. PNAS 122 (36): e2507323122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2507323122
Beals D.G., Munn J.J., Puri A.W. 2024. Methane-oxidizing bacterial community dynamics in sub-alpine forest soil. Microbiology Spectrum 12:e00834-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00834-24
Beals D.G., Puri A.W. 2024. Agarose-Based Model Ecosystem for Cultivating Methanotrophs in a Methane-Oxygen Counter Gradient. JoVE 211: e67191. doi:10.3791/67191
Beals D.G., Puri A.W. 2024. Linking methanotroph phenotypes to genotypes using a simple spatially resolved model ecosystem. ISME 18 (1): wrae060. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae060