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Rob Beiko

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Rob Beiko

Professor

Computerscience

Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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41 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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193

Publications

29,782

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Research

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Latest papers

Automated eDNA and eRNA profiling for biodiversity monitoring in marine and freshwater ecosystems.
Scientific reports · 2026 · first author
Comparison of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Composition in Size-Fractionated and Unfractionated Northwestern Atlantic Microbial Communities.
Environmental microbiology reports · 2026
Microbiome stewardship: definition and guiding principles for implementation.
Sustainable microbiology · 2026

All 193 publications

From the 150 most recent of 193 publications.

Automated eDNA and eRNA profiling for biodiversity monitoring in marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Beiko RG, Tolman J, Barawi SS, Fares M, Murthy SSN, Knox T, Mackie CM, Grundke I, Jeffery NW, Stanley RRE, Sieben V, LaRoche J

Scientific reports20261 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-58421-1 PMID: 42350494

Comparison of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Composition in Size-Fractionated and Unfractionated Northwestern Atlantic Microbial Communities.

Haider D, Tolman J, Beiko RG, LaRoche J

Environmental microbiology reports20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.70206 PMID: 41652859

Microbiome stewardship: definition and guiding principles for implementation.

O'Doherty KC, Beijbom M, Allen-Vercoe E, Choudoir MJ, Silva DS, Bonilla C, Debelius J, Elton S, Hauptmann AL, Heyland A, Morar N, Skillings D, Sun Z, Wolf PG, Beiko RG, Ishaq SL

Sustainable microbiology20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/sumbio/qvag028 PMID: 42576889

Investigating the mobility and host range of mobile genetic elements harbouring antimicrobial resistance genes in enterococci.

Kim JI, Zaheer R, Zovoilis A, Van Domselaar G, Zaidi SE, Haight T, Beiko RG, McAllister TA

Microbiology (Reading, England)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001720 PMID: 42391309

Lateral gene transfer shapes the distribution of nitrogen fixation within a cosmopolitan clade of marine Thalassolituus

Soma Sardar Barawi, Julie LaRoche, Robert Gerald Beiko

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.28.747955

Analysing antimicrobial resistance mobility patterns using a diverse dataset of over 8000 bacterial species

Jia B, Alcock BP, Raphenya AR, Spence J, Maguire F, Beiko RG, McArthur AG, Bertelli C, Brinkman FSL

2026Open Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.03.709307

Sarand: exploring antimicrobial resistance gene neighbourhoods in complex metagenomic assembly graphs.

Kafaie S, Naseri S, Mahoney DBJ, Gagie T, Beiko RG, Maguire F

NAR genomics and bioinformatics2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqag066 PMID: 42454225

Effect of bedrest on the human gut and oral microbiome: implications for frailty.

Alvaro-Fuss M, DeClercq V, Blodgett JM, Theou O, Langille MGI, Beiko RG

Experimental gerontology2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2026.113079 PMID: 41748043

Development of a Lightweight, Fully Integrated Submersible qPCR Sensor for Environmental DNA

Colin D. Sonnichsen, Edward A. Luy, Andre Hendricks, Iain Grundke, Kyle T. Park, Jennifer Tolman, Robert Gerald Beiko, Julie LaRoche, Vincent J. Sieben

SSRN Electronic Journal2026Open Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6578356

Profiling lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome using WAAFLE.

Hsu TY, Nzabarushimana E, Wong D, Luo C, Beiko RG, Langille M, Huttenhower C, Nguyen LH, Franzosa EA

Nature microbiology202529 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01881-w PMID: 39747694

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Rob Beiko

Research

Latest papers

Automated eDNA and eRNA profiling for biodiversity monitoring in marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Comparison of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Composition in Size-Fractionated and Unfractionated Northwestern Atlantic Microbial Communities.

Microbiome stewardship: definition and guiding principles for implementation.

Investigating the mobility and host range of mobile genetic elements harbouring antimicrobial resistance genes in enterococci.

Lateral gene transfer shapes the distribution of nitrogen fixation within a cosmopolitan clade of marine Thalassolituus

Analysing antimicrobial resistance mobility patterns using a diverse dataset of over 8000 bacterial species

Sarand: exploring antimicrobial resistance gene neighbourhoods in complex metagenomic assembly graphs.

Effect of bedrest on the human gut and oral microbiome: implications for frailty.

Development of a Lightweight, Fully Integrated Submersible qPCR Sensor for Environmental DNA

Profiling lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome using WAAFLE.

Frequent collaborators

Robert Beiko

Fiona Brinkman

Julie Laroche

Finlay Maguire

Ian Bradbury

Morgan Langille

Chris Whidden

Christopher Whidden

Andrew McArthur

Norbert Zeh

Paul Bentzen

Vincent Sieben

William Hsiao

Natalie Knox

Donald Baird

Dilani Senadheera

Emma Allen-Vercoe

Cedric Chauve

Kieran O'Doherty

Celine Nadon

Michael Glogauer

Marina Sokolova