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Research on eelgrass wasting disease impacts in the PNW out in Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS)! Congrats to @maya_groner and everyone on this project! Thank you for involving me in this effort as an undergrad 😊

Kudos to Buzzfeed and the brave #Metoo women for shining a light on the years of sexual harassment that occurred at #STRI Panama field station Women Scientists Describe A Culture Of Sexual Misconduct At The Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute buzzfeednews.com/article/nishit…

Congrats to @Corbin13Isodope for successfully defending his Ph.D on Dec. 9! Corbin's work in zebrafish used eDNA and dPCR techniques to develop novel water assays to further characterize transmission dynamics of the Pseudoloma neurophilia pathogen. #microbiology #PhD

Congrats to Kimberly Halsey, associate prof of microbiology, who is the inaugural Excellence in Microbiology Faculty Scholar, a new five-year endowed position in the College. science.oregonstate.edu/impact/2021/11…

Defended my PhD on Friday- I can’t thank my incredible advisor @AdrienneSCorrea & all of @CorreaLab enough for their support! 🤩 from freshman year scuba classes to PhD dissertation- I am so grateful I’ve gotten to work with you for 8+ years Adrienne!!

Coverage of our paper and the implications for future coral reef recovery after marine heatwaves🌡️🌊 Article written by Harrison Tasoff and published in the UCSB Current news.ucsb.edu/2021/020491/do…

Super excited to share our review on how corallivores affect coral disease, hot off the press Springer Coral Reefs! We talk fishes 🐡, snails 🐌, worms 🪱, and--of course--crabs 🦀. Huge shout out to Brian Silliman, Burkepile Lab, and particularly Dr. Elizabeth Shaver! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Ever wonder how Symbiodiniaceae populate cnidarian hosts and how the process reverses during bleaching? Check out this new study by Trevor Tivey from his time in Weis Lab. #Aiptasia #symbiosis tinyurl.com/4kvv8znb

Trying my hand at underwater panoramas. Here is Dr. Andrew Thurber of Thurber Lab @ OSU cruising under the sea ice and over the anchor ice at Daytons Wall, #McMurdo Sounds, #Antarctica

Got to be on the radio to talk about my research! Thank you, Inspiration Dissemination💡 for hosting me this weekend.

🚨New pub out for our coral microbiome people, thanks to the hard work and dedication of Denise Silva , Hannah Epstein , and Dr. Rebecca Vega Thurber ! 🪸🦠 Best practices for generating and analyzing 16S rRNA amplicon data to track coral microbiome dynamics frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Klinges on her new pub! During her time here, ⁦Grace Klinges, PhD⁩ and several undergraduate assistants performed experiments showing that microbiomes of disease-resistant 🪸#coral genets remained stable during nutrient stress nature.com/articles/s4159…

We’re a little late on this one but MAJOR celebrations are in order in the lab: our very own Sunni Patton was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation GRFP for her PhD research project here at Oregon State University! Congratulations and very well-deserved, Sunni! 🎊🍾🥳Grad School - Oregon State Oregon State Science Oregon State Microbiology Grad Students

Excited to see this out! This was a massive collaborative effort between members of the Tara Oceans Scientific, Vega Thurber Lab, and @CorreaLab. We reveal a long-standing interaction between coral symbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) and an enigmatic RNA virus: nature.com/articles/s4200…

My 1st paper (!!!!) out today in Nature Communications Earth & Environment! We explore environmental justice & just transition concerns & opportunities for direct air capture in the U.S., finding that communities may support DAC, but with conditions. rdcu.be/dDyUy

New paper out on the high infectivity and transmission through the water column of the slime mold that causes Seagrass Wasting Disease. Thank you Morgan Eisenlord and Dr. Drew Harvell for including me and mentoring me as an undergrad on this exciting and important project!

Join us this Friday at 11AM for our first seminar of an exciting semester of microbial science! 🦠🧫 Penn State postdoctoral scholar Alex Vompe will give a talk on the effects of disturbance histories on #coral #microbiomes.🪸 If you can't make it, DM us for the zoom link!

We are kicking off our semester with a seminar from Alex Vompe! Alex talked about coral microbiome work with Thomas Sharpton & Dr. Rebecca Vega Thurber and new mushroom-microbe interaction projects with Kevin Hockett and @Buckhout_Bull