BA Astrophysics, University of California Berkeley, USA
BS Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, USA
PhD Biological Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA

Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, JAMSTEC, Japan
Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star), JAMSTEC, Japan
Department of Ecology & Environmental Studies, The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

environmental microbiology, deep life, environmental virology, biogeochemistry, astrobiology

2022 Virus Origins and the Origin of Life
D Pan
Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life

2021 Deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps are a subsurface reservoir of viral diversity
Z Li, D Pan, G Wei, W Pi, C Zhang, JH Wang, Y Peng, L Zhang, Y Wang, ... X Dong
The ISME Journal

2021 An Advanced Protocol for the Quantification of Marine Sediment Viruses via Flow Cytometry
ME Heinrichs, D De Corte, B Engelen, D Pan
Viruses

2020 Temperature limits to deep subseafloor life in the Nankai Trough subduction zone
VB Heuer, F Inagaki, Y Morono, Y Kubo, AJ Spivack, B Viehweger, ...
Science

2019 An improved method for extracting viruses from sediment: detection of far more viruses in the subseafloor than previously reported
D Pan, Y Morono, F Inagaki, K Takai
Frontiers in microbiology

2018 Uranium Retention in a Bioreduced Region of an Alluvial Aquifer Induced by the Influx of Dissolved Oxygen
D Pan, KH Williams, MJ Robbins, KA Weber
Environmental science & technology

2017 Abundance and distribution of microbial cells and viruses in an alluvial aquifer
D Pan, J Nolan, KH Williams, MJ Robbins, KA Weber
Frontiers in microbiology

2014 Correlation between viral production and carbon mineralization under nitrate-reducing conditions in aquifer sediment
D Pan, R Watson, D Wang, ZH Tan, DD Snow, KA Weber
The ISME journal

Science and Technology in Society forum (STS Forum) Future Leader, Kyoto 2017