It is great to have sets of key protocols penned by the best practitioners! For years, Rob Lavigne, Andrew and I commissioned + edited 4 volumes of phage methods, saving many from extinction and catching the latest. A subset were translated as a labour of love into Chinese 🙂!

A curated data resource of 214K metagenomes for characterization of the global antimicrobial resistome dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Thrilled to be invited to give a talk at symposium on ‘Phytoplankton in changing world’ @ Linnéuniversitetet Linnaeus University in beautiful Kalmar 🇸🇪 with Corina Brussaard @daniel_vaulot @elenagorokova9 Agnes Karlson Hanna Farnelid

Saturday evening walk Sydney northern beaches

We’re looking for a Training & Outreach Coordinator to join my team at Atlas of Living Aust - if #scicomm about Australian biodiversity is your thing, please consider applying! 🦘🦜🌳🦎🐝🦋

It's an honour to be able to work with such a great group of people!

Out of office. Replies to email may be delayed until 2023 while I Soak up South Pacific culture, sun and Fresh air on Norfolk Island parksaustralia.gov.au/marine/parks/t….

Golden Orb #Spiders are out weaving spectacular webs @ the #GoldenOrb cafe #Norfolk Island 🕷️🕷️🕸️🕸️

Norfolk islands sunrise. Great to be out on the water again.

Happy to see the #microplastic research from the Lauro Lab lab featured on a CGTN short documentary on fighting marine plastic pollution. youtube.com/watch?v=oObIOn…

Synechococcus community composition in coastal areas, in particular along the coasts of Europe worldwide, as revealed by a bunch of ECOMAP and ABiMS members and collaborators using the global OSD metagenomics data set. ASSEMBLE Plus, scott journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Check out our new paper that reveals new sources of predation on microbes in the ocean @SutherlandLab PSU Biology Portland State Research ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

We are thrilled to announce that our #HTS and #bioinformatics #training courses are back! The courses will be held May 7 - 12 2023 in the village of Santa Cruz (Oleiros, A Coruña, Spain) 🌊. More info and registration ➜➜ allgenetics.eu/allgenetics-tr… 🧬💻. #bioinformaticsbythesea

Two of our recently developed tools to simplify bioinformatics are now published ffq for metadata retrieval from sequence databases (Angel Galvez Merchan, @lioscro, sina): academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… gget for querying genomic databases (Laura Luebbert, PhD) academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Microbe-microbe interactions can be just as important, and in some cases, more important than environmental physicochemical determinants in contributing to community diversity patterns Sydney Marine martin ostrowski Integrated Marine Observing System Bioplatforms Australia AODN doi.org/10.1111/1462-2…

How I became a researcher in personal science – Sara Riggare riggare.se/2022/12/18/how…

Chemotaxis enhances nutrient exchanges between some of the smallest photosynthetic microorganisms and heterotrophic bacteria. Out in Nature Microbiology today. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Interested in how inter-bacterial symbioses regulate aquatic ecosystem health ? We have a fully funded PhD position!  Please RT nature.com/naturecareers/… #jobs

🥳 it’s my 11th Birthday 🎉 🎂 I was reliving my champion jumping days when I had a few less strands of grey fur but Mum decided to start taking pictures to try look like 🥳 so I was unimpressed 😑 and asked for noms! Better be more later 😋 with snuggles 🥰

This is important for assessments of present-day marine ecosystem health and functioning, and to reconstruct past ocean environments as analogs to ongoing climate change. Amaranta Focardi @post_alix Taryn Noble Dimitris Evangelinos @mduffy26 Adrián López-Quirós martin ostrowski