🚨Paper alert!🚨 We are happy to share our new study by Dr. Adva Shemi and Dr. Shifra Ben-Dor in ISME communication about the phylogeny and biogeography of the algal DMS-releasing enzyme in the global ocean! 🌊🌍 nature.com/articles/s4370…

Save the date! 📢 17-21 March 2024 M2C2 - Marine Microbial Chemical Communication Workshop 🧪🦠🌊 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel See you there!

Sadly an #unpopularopinion here: Scientists shouldn't delay publishing just because English is not their native tongue. It's discriminatory and bad for science, and I really hope that editors are doing better than this guy here. Read more on this subject: nature.com/articles/d4158…

🔬Major microscopy moment: when you find a marine tardigrade! You should give it a try!

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With nearly a month of delay, I'm very happy to share another big piece of work from my time Weizmann Institute, with @vardilab and Gur Hevroni. In Science Advances, we decipher #algae-#virus dynamics one cell at a time, and in a #mesocosm bloom. 1/n science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The giant virus biology symposium at Ringberg castle, organized by Matthias Fischer is in full swing. What could be better than having it in such a beautiful location and with the best winter weather possible? 🏔️☃️

Despite these distressful days, we are proud to share new insights into chemical communication at sea nature.com/articles/s4157… 🌊

I know what I am going to present at the next journal club

📽️ WATCH: Uncover the truth behind the forces devastating our ocean. Can we turn the tide on #TheTrawl? 🌊💥 Highly destructive bottom trawling is STILL allowed in many of our marine ‘protected’ areas 🚨 Defra UK when will you properly protect our ocean?!

We are extremely excited about the upcoming Marine Microbial Chemical Communication (M2C2) webinar that will take place next Tuesday, March 19th! 🌊🌊 We have a great lineup of early-career speakers 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬 Check the website for more details -> conferences.weizmann.ac.il/webinarM2C2/we…

We are happy to share our new study by Dr. Naama Lang-Yona (NaamaLY) and Dr. Michel Flores on the impact of airborne algicidal bacteria on marine phytoplankton blooms 🌊☁️🦠 academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

We are excited to share our latest paper, led by Nir Joffe! 🥳 We explore how cell-to-cell heterogeneity of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi drives host-virus coexistence 🌊academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

מה עושים כל הפחמן הדו חמצני העודף באטמוספירה? חברת סטארטפ ישראלית מציעה פשוט לקבור אותו בים. קראו עוד בכתבתה של מאי שדה mai sadeh ynet.co.il/environment-sc…

Another interesting study from the Aylward Lab on the importance of viruses in the evolution of eukaryotes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Together with Aude Bernheim we wrote a research briefing: "Evolutionary history of an immune protein conserved across all domains of life" nature.com/articles/s4155… Link PDF: rdcu.be/dM5fY We describe our findings recently published in NatureEcoEvo : nature.com/articles/s4155…

📢 How can we find the authentic hosts of giant viruses in the natural environment? Read the story behind our latest study in the Weizmann magazine >>

Can we trace the #metabolic footprint of viral infection in the ocean? In our new preprint by Constanze Kuhlisch, in collaboration with Guy Schleyer and Fondation Tara Océan , we mapped metabolic biomarkers for the #viral shunt across the Atlantic Ocean 🌊 doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

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