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We're seeking 2 Master's students for 6-month internships at Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer working on: - Virus-phytoplankton co-evolution - Marine virus impacts on ocean biogeochemistry Collaboration w/ Sheree Yau, Marc Krasovec, and Bart Haegeman. When: Jan/Feb to June/July 2024

Isolation of a widespread giant virus implicated in cryptophyte bloom collapse academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Paper now out in Nature Communications arising from a long-term collaboration, led by Stephen Beckett, PhD and David Demory on 'Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North PacificSubtropical Gyre'. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Diel Partitioning in Microbial Phosphorus Acquisition in the Sargasso Sea biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Metatranscriptomics reveals declines in ice cover influence winter viral community activity biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Liz Denison Brittany N. Zepernick, PhD Robert Michael McKay

Sharing this great new book chapter on aerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenases written by David Gillett. These widespread enzymes regulate air pollution and support soil/marine biodiversity by using carbon monoxide as an energy source. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/97…

🚨New Review! The Southern Ocean represents a substantial carbon sink. Boyd et al. describe how expanding observations are providing increasing insight into the contribution of biota to the carbon cycle in the Southern Ocean nature.com/articles/s4301… (rdcu.be/dEs99)

Awesome paper. Congrats to co-lead authors Howard-Varona and Lindback! Morgan | BLM, trans rights are human rights

Check out our new preprint describing the ecological impacts of an algicidal bacterium! It was fun analyzing this cool dataset collected back in 2015 at the Texas A&M algal raceway ponds. Also did a little experiment (my first true lab culturing experiment ☺️☺️) 🦠

Starting #ASMicrobe off strong with the @binningsingletons.com on bluesky taco social! 🌮 🍻

Volatile Organic Compound Specialists in the Phycosphere biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

If you’re still around by Monday (the 17th) at #ASMicrobe come over and hear me talk for 10 min about my PD project on algal-bacterial interactions, iron, & exometabolomics! ASM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

nanoSIMS application demonstrating the uptake of virions Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

If any PhD or Postdoctoral researchers are interested in joining the lab to work on Aquatic Microbiology in the Great Lakes region, let me know! The Walder Foundation Biota Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open walderfoundation.org/2025-biota-awa…

RecA is a reliable marker for bacterial taxonomy, even in the Candidate Phyla Radiation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Viral infection of coccolithophore host induces shifts in particulate organic matter stoichiometry aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ln…

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…

Mitomycin C eliminates cyanobacterial transcription without detectable lysogen induction in a Microcystis-dominated bloom in Lake Erie biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

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

Check out Micro in the news: artsci.utk.edu/microbial-mann… Steven Wilhelm , Naomi Gilbert, PhD, & Gary LeCleir show how ocean microbial communities may avoid direct competition by taking up scarce nutrients at different times of the day! Publication: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…