Ferrer-González, F.X.*, Heal, K.R.*, Sacks, J., Romero-Maysonet, Y., Finch, A., Carlson, L.T., Coe, L.S., Bartolek, Z., Luthy, C.B., Gaffney, M.P., Angier, S.K., Flynn, S.E., Bachmann Gómez, C.I., Dunn, J.M.L., Bay, K.J., Yamamoto, L.A., Tien, M.Z., Armbrust, V.E., Durham, B.P., Sosa, O.A., Ingalls, A.E., (2026). Conserved pathway for homarine catabolism in environmental bacteria. Nature Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-026-02313-7
Sacks, J. S., Carlson, L. T., Finch, A. H., Ferrer‐González, F. X., Boysen, A. K., Heal, K. R., Karl, D. M., White, A.E., Sosa, O.A., & Ingalls, A. E. (2026). The cycling of glycine betaine and homarine in marine microbial communities: Quantitative flux measurements and the role of competitive uptake inhibition. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 11(1), e70069. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.70069
Olofsson, M.*, Uchimiya, M.*, Ferrer-González, F. X. , Schreier, J. E., Powers, M. A., Smith, C. B., Edison, A.S. & Moran, M. A. (2025). Dynamic reworking of marine diatom endometabolomes in response to temperature and a model bacterium. mSystems, e01036-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01036-25
Durham, B.P.., Johnson, W.M., Bannon, C.C., Bertrand, E.M., Ingalls, A.E., Edwards, B.R., Apprill, A., Borges, R., Boysen, A., Bundy, R.M., Chen, H., Ferrer-González, F.X., Fiore, C., Heal, K.R., Kuhlisch, C., Liu, S., Lu, K., Meke, L., Pontrelli, S., Prabavathy, V.R., Reigel, A.M., Sacks, J.S., Schreier, J.E., Sekar, J., Uchimiya, M., Kujawinski, E.B., An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem, Limnology & Oceanography Letters (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.70046
Hamilton, M., Ferrer-González, F. X. & Moran, M. A. (2023). Heterotrophic bacteria trigger transcriptome remodelling in the photosynthetic picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 16(3), e13285. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13285
Ferrer-González, F. X., Hamilton, M., Smith, C. B., Schreier, J. E., Olofsson, M., & Moran, M. A. (2023). Bacterial transcriptional response to labile exometabolites from photosynthetic picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda. ISME communications, 3(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00212-0
Holderman, N. R., Ferrer‐González, F. X., Glushka, J., Moran, M. A., & Edison, A. S. (2023). Dissolved organic metabolite extraction from high‐salt media. NMR in Biomedicine, 36(4), e4797. https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/nbm.4797
Moran, M.A., Ferrer-González, F.X., Fu, H., Nowinski, B., Olofsson, M., Powers, M.A., Schreier, J.E., Schroer, W.F., Smith, C.B., and Uchimiya, M. (2022). The Ocean's labile DOC supply chain. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12053
Olofsson, M., Ferrer-González, F.X., Uchimiya, M., Schreier, J.E., Holderman, N.R., Smith, C.B., Edison, A.S., Moran, M.A. (2022). Growth-stage-related shifts in diatom endometabolome composition set the stage for bacterial heterotrophy. ISME Communications, 2(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00116-5
Widner, B., Kido Soule, M. C., Ferrer-González, F. X., Moran, M. A., & Kujawinski, E. B. (2021). Quantification of Amine-and Alcohol-Containing Metabolites in Saline Samples Using Pre-extraction Benzoyl Chloride Derivatization and Ultrahigh Performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC MS/MS). Analytical Chemistry, 93(11), 4809-4817. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03769
Ferrer-González, F. X., Widner, B., Holderman, N. R., Glushka, J., Edison, A. S., Kujawinski, E. B., & Moran, M. A. (2021). Resource partitioning of phytoplankton metabolites that support bacterial heterotrophy. The ISME journal, 15(3), 762-773. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00811-y0