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IAA promotes growth in Microcystis - great work describing a novel factor contributing to the success of this cyano & a refreshing new angle on an age old problem by Morgan Steffen & team! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Want to determine Microcystis diversity in your samples? We evaluated all Microcystis core genes to identify the best markers and developed optimal primers for sequencing. Markers also predictive of gene content, including for bioactive compound synthesis. doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.…

Congrats GLIER at UWindsor School of the Environment @ UWindsor Ken Drouillard and @ScienceUWindsor grad student Dennis Otieno for leading this important study, part of BGSU Biology U.S. National Science Foundation program on #cyanoHABs in #LakeVictoria. @GBullerjahn Kefa Otiso KMFRI Kisii University uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2024…

UTK Micro grad students & postdocs working on our communication & collaboration at Pho Night! Thankful to work with such amazing people!

Microbiology post-docs enjoying faculty trivia night hosted by UT Provost #CelebrateUTFaculty

#ProudMentorMoment - Looking forward to my students publishing their findings & thankful for the SEC Emerging Scholars program utk for funding this course / project!

Old friends, new friends & cool science at #IAGLR2024. Including an NSF Lake Victoria reunion - manuscripts are in the works with Lauren Hart Julia Mollah & twitterless colleagues! Lucky to have such amazing friends & collaborators 🍻

…And that’s a wrap on the new course - Advanced Micro Field Techniques! My students made local & national news identifying a toxic Plankothrix rubescens bloom during their field experiment - using metabolomics & metagenomics! Stay tuned for pub. So proud!

A pleasure contributing to this piece led by colleagues UTK Microbiology Steven Wilhelm Brittany N. Zepernick, PhD. Momentum building to understand implications of losing winter ice. GLIER at UWindsor UWindsor Research and Innovation NSERC / CRSNG IJC - International Joint Commission theconversation.com/losing-winter-… via The Conversation U.S.

First, we learned that diatom physiology may change as winter ice is no longer on #LakeErie. Now Liz Denison provides insight that virus predation on plankton may also be altered. with Brittany N. Zepernick, PhD Robert Michael McKay journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Excited to see Colleen Yancey, PhD and I's (among many coauthors Greg Dick David H. Sherman Ashu Tripathi) joint effort out now! Spoiler alert that these bugs are capable of producing much more than microcystins... doi.org/10.1128/msyste…

Congratulations to David Niknejad on a great Master’s thesis! He entered the lab in 2020 as my undergrad mentee and now is off to Cali for his PhD - so proud & excited! 🍾🎉

After 6 amazing years in the Wilhelm lab UTK Microbiology it’s time for the next chapter. So thankful for these amazing people and in particular Steven Wilhelm for their support, collaboration & friendship. Not goodbye but see you later - Go Vols!

Timing is everything - even the simple task of measuring growth rate for phytoplankton can be tricky. An example from harmful algae (and their virus) and insights into how this effects export. Great teamwork from Alex Truchon Emily Erin Chase Ashton Stark frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

Thrilled to share Professor Steven Wilhelm Steven Wilhelm was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada! This honor recognizes his contributions to aquatic viral ecology, the physiological ecology of harmful cyanobacteria and biogeochemistry. rsc-src.ca/en/news/royal-…

Time of day at which an eukaryotic HAB host becomes infected by a giant virus plays a role in how infection progresses. academic.oup.com/femsec/article…

This award is proof that with patient mentors, great students, amazing colleagues and collaborators, anything is possible. Thank you all...this award is just as much yours. #COEE2024

Giant viruses can impact industrial scale algal culturing practices. Check out our paper for more info on the virosphere found in an open faced culturing pond (spoilers: we also found polinton-like viruses) #sustainability #viruses #algae journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11…

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms, etc . Please get in touch if interested. More info: kl-lab.group.