So happy to see this one out. Huge thanks to my coauthors, @MLMichelsen and Ben Temperton, for all their hard work. "Metagenomic time-series reveals a western English Channel viral community dominated by members with strong seasonal signals" academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

Co-authored paper published!
Seasonal dynamics of eukaryotic microalgae in Osaka Bay revealed from time series data by 18S rRNA amplicon sequencing analysis | Fisheries Science link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Stable coexistence and transport of lytic phage infections with migrating bacterial hosts | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

AlphaFold 'goes viral': database adds protein complexes of common viruses | Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Contrasting Bioavailability of Enterobactin- and Ferrichrome-bound Iron to SAR11 and Other Marine Heterotrophs academic.oup.com/ismecommun/adv…

Our first collaboration with the Levine lab!

Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Pelagibacter, resolved | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Now online! Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems dlvr.it/TRq3qC

Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Sub-daily virus sampling at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series reveals diel and depth-structured population dynamics without community-level shifts journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Seasonal patterns of DOM molecules are linked to microbial functions in the oligotrophic ocean | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Wave‐driven transport controls bacterioplankton community differentiation among coral reef habitats aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lo…

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! Below a fantastic note covering the paper 👇

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More information:
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Functional genomic signatures predict microbial culturability across the tree of life @USC_MEB @USC_earth biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ecophysiology and global dispersal of the freshwater SAR11-IIIb genus Fontibacterium | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

707TB, 2.3 million sampling sites, 214 billion SSU rRNA reads, 651275 OTU

An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lo…

Notice of Award is in!

Join our team at NIU to study marine microbial ecology & disease dynamics in sea urchins 🧫🌊🦠
PhD | Spring/Fall 2026 start
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