Sean Crowe

Associate Professor

mail sacrowe@mail.ubc.ca

call 604-827-3827

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Research Focus Teams

Ecosystem Health

Research Interests

Microbiomics, Microorganisms, Molecular Biology

Departments

Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology

Bio

Dr. Sean Crowe is a an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC. He is a geochemist who couples classical and molecular biological tools to geochemical techniques to study the co-evolution of life and Earth surface chemistry. Dr. Crowe's current interests are in modern nitrogen cycling, the evolution of atmospheric oxygen through the Precambrian, and the role of Fe-based photosynthesis in early biological production and the deposition banded iron formations. Dr. Crowe holds a Canada Research Chair in Geomicrobiology.

Recent Publications

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Microbial community respiration kinetics and their dynamics in coastal seawater.

Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability

Constraining the oxygen requirements for modern microbial eukaryote diversity

Salinity, mineralogy, porosity, and hydrodynamics as drivers of carbon burial in urban mangroves from a megacity

Virus induced dysbiosis promotes type 1 diabetes onset

Inhibition of Th1 activation and differentiation by dietary guar gum ameliorates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Restriction of viral replication, rather than T cell immunopathology, drives lethality in MNV CR6-infected STAT1-deficient mice