Curtis A. Suttle is a Canadian microbiologist and oceanographer who is a faculty member at the University of British Columbia.
[7] Suttle's research focused on nitrogen[8] and phosphorus[9] as well as grazing effects on freshwater phytoplankton.
[13] His lab (work led by graduate student Matthias Fisher) was the first to describe the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus.
[citation needed] In 2019 his research team uncovered a series of viruses in endangered Pacific salmon populations.
[citation needed] He was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2014, and named a sustaining Fellow of ASLO in 2016.