I really enjoyed reading papers by some of the first #coccolithophore taxonomists.
✒️Back to Basics: Revision of Coccolithophore Species List in the Adriatic Sea
🔗doi.org/10.3390/w15030…
Interestingly, papers were mostly written in German & I forgot to thank google translate!🤦‍♀️

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Here is the talk schedule for 🪩Advances in coccolithophore research 2025 🪩
🔗 shorturl.at/bJyPl

🌊#ocean #protists
with a healthy mix of on-site and on-line talks!

There is still time to register on line! Until ➡️ Friday 5th Sep 2025 at 12.00 UK (BST).
Join us! 🪩

Our new review just out @ThePlantJournal led by Yixuan Li and in collaboration with @KarasLab @ueaenv

Genetic engineering in #diatoms: advances and prospects

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

⚠️A recent study reveals that a novel acidic organelle in the marine phytoplankton Scyphosphaera apsteinii plays a dual role in both phagocytosis and autophagy, highlighting its multifunctional catabolic capabilities. #coccolithophores 🌊 🔗nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Cool! A comprehensive genomic analysis of brown algae that shows hows a burst of genome evolution (HGT, new genes, new protein domains architectures and expansion of gene families) on their origin. The study also highlights the important role of viruses in shaping brown algae all authors! #multicellularity #brownalgae

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

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This might help with 🦋:

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We are seeking talented PhD candidates in CS, physics or math to join us. The topics include the development of AI for cancer and ageing research.
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Lab: sikic-lab.github.io
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Assembly of functional microbial ecosystems: from molecular circuits to communities academic.oup.com/femsre/advance…

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 @TaraOcean_ , we mapped metabolic biomarkers for the #viral shunt across the Atlantic Ocean 🌊 doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Welcome to the newly elected EMBO Members Oliver Hobert @Columbia_Bio, Valérie Borde @lab_borde, Lumír Krejci @MasarykUni, Ivan Matić @Lab_Matic, Ewelina Knapska @e_knapska, Steven West @XRNchew, Ita Gruić-Sovulj, Martin Howard @JohnInnesCentre and Paola Scaffidi! #EMBOat60

Happy to share our last publication to evaluate
the diversity and ecology of the (mostly) uncultured MAST clades, an eclectic collection of very small unpigmented protists.

How marine are Marine Stramenopiles (MAST)? A cross-system evaluation academic.oup.com/femsec/article…

We are thinking 🧐

Biophysics of protist behaviour | Kirsty Y. Wan
cell.com/current-biolog…

Gotta start somewhere 😅

The @NatureMicrobiol team is starting to plan their travels for 2025. Please let us know of any upcoming meetings we should be aware of 👇

PhD position in my lab! Interested in polar #diatoms, molecular biology, essential minerals and adaptation? Join us working with @GLWheeler2 & C. van Oosterhout @ueaenv @thembauk #Arctic #Antarctic #Ocean

Deadline: 8 January 2025 (midnight UK time)

uea.ac.uk/course/phd-doc…

Interesting idea. Worth considering:

All science papers must state how confident we should be in them timeshighereducation.com/opinion/all-sc… via @timeshighered

This is so coooool!!! @nanopore can differentiate between heavy and regular isotopes in DNA and thus enabling activity measurements from incorporation!!!