Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
†=co-first authors
2026
Heidi Abresch, Sophia Miller, Forest Cruse, Jingchun Li, Sarah E. Hamsher, J. Patrick Kociolek, Scott R. Miller. “Diatom Endosymbionts have Shrinking but Stable Genomes Despite Low Coding Density”. Preprint. BioRxiv. 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.19.712447
Aimee Caye G. Chang†, Heidi Abresch†, Mailor W. W. Amaral, Kyle G. Keepers, Megan Greenwood, Jingchun Li, Sarah E. Hamsher, Scott R. Miller, J. Patrick Kociolek. “Genomic and Morphological Evidence Supports the Divergent Lineage Status of Rhopalodia californica sp. nov. Within Rhopalodiales”. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1771974
2025
Heidi Abresch, Mark B. Edlund, Scott R. Miller. “Widespread and homologous life-history traits within the Rhopalodiales (Bacillariophyceae)”. Fottea. https://doi.org/10.5507/fot.2025.007
2024
Heidi Abresch, Tisza Bell, Scott R. Miller. “Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont”. The ISME Journal, wrae064. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae064
Heidi Abresch, Sophia Miller, Kathryn Bick, Scott R. Miller. “Draft genome of co-cultured Melainabacteria sp. 17Bon1m”. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13:e01002-23. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01002-23
2022
Scott R Miller, Heidi E Abresch, Jacob J Baroch, Caleb K Fishman Miller, Arkadiy I Garber, Andrew R Oman, and Nikea J Ulrich. “Genomic and Functional Variation of the Chlorophyll d-Producing Cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina“, Microorganisms 10, no. 3 (2022), https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10030569
2021
Scott R Miller, Heidi E Abresch, Nikea J Ulrich, Emiko B Sano, Andrew H Demaree, Andrew R Oman, Arkadiy I Garber, “Bacterial Adaptation by a Transposition Burst of an Invading IS Element”, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 11, November 2021, evab245, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab245
Invited Articles and Talks
Talks
“Diatoms: Jewels of the Sea”. Montana Native Plant Society. November 2023. link
Articles
Heidi Abresch. “Reviving Interest in the MONTU Diatom Collection”. Newsletter, Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium. Spring 2023. link
Heidi Abresch. “Better Together: Rhopalodiaceae Team up with Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria to Survive in Freshwaters with Low Nutrients”. Diatom of the Month, International Society for Diatom Research. November 2021. link