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Happy #FieldworkFriday 🎉🥾NMDC Champion Asa Conover (@planetazor) is using the digestive microbiome of the carnivorous California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica) to learn how we can shape microbiome composition and function!
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Thank you @maxplanckpress for this opportunity to start my first research group!! I am recruiting at the MSc, PhD, and student assistant levels. More info on how to join us coming very soon ☺️🦠
Great news!! 🥳😊 Reena Debray @DebrayReena (seen here w/ the Otto Hahn medal awardees) was chosen for a Minerva Fast Track position. Her new research group will start @MPI_EVA_Leipzig soon & will study the gut microbiomes of non-human primates. 🐒 reenadebray.wordpress.com
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new op-ed for @Truthdig
Cancer-causing PFAS are in 45% of our tap water. Why hasn't the U.S. government banned them?
bit.ly/3UkUhao
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Our paper on priority effects and within-host microbial evolution is out today in @NatureEcoEvo!! 🥳🥳🥳
nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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im really happy this manuscript is finally out! if you’re curious about trichodesmium genomics and oceanic N2 fixation, then this could be for you! nature.com/articles/s43705-0…
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‼️ I'm starting a lab at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science @USFCMS in St. Pete next Summer! We will study microbial interactions in a changing ocean with multi 'omics and microscopy. Opportunities for MS and PhD students, DM! 🦠🧪🔬🌊❤️ #sciencedreams
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Excited to share two pubs from my PhD this week, one on historical contingency in ecology and the other on historical contingency in evolution, and some thoughts on what these two subfields can learn from each other. 🧵(1/10)
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#Internship opportunity (partially funded) for a student interested in studying marine connectivity in Okinawa, Japan. Join our lab and our cross-disciplinary team led by @mitarais at @OISTedu
Details and how to apply:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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hi all - i'm proud to announce our new manuscript on Trichodesmium pangenomes and CRISPR immunity is now out on bioRxiv :) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
@proteocean @zhaoym6 @perilousUnknown @PlanetAzor @MakASaito
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Our paper on belowground effects on the phyllosphere microbiome is now out in @NewPhyt! We found that water limitation & disrupting mycorrhizal colonization had extremely similar effects on aboveground communities – down to individual indicator species. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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Very excited to talk about microbiomes and some of our recent work on dispersal in the phyllosphere at the upcoming Science at Cal event. Register in advance if you'd like to check it out!
REG NOW OPEN: 🦠 See how the tiniest creatures can have a BIG impact during our next lecture w/ researchers fr. @UCBerkeley & @BerkeleyLab who study #microbiomes on our crops & in the guts of fish. 11/18, 12pm PT.
Ft: @berkeleyIB's @kylemmeyer1
Reg: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
Working with @EricWeb65737594 I grew very fond of Trichodesmium, a worldly and attractive cyanobacterium. Last week we published a tale of N cycling among Tricho and associates.
doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15…
Here are some pix that offer a joyous glimpse into the Tricho world.
And big shout out to genome wiz @zhaoym6 who contributed the awesome metagenomic component of this work!
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New paper out today in @ScienceAdvances! advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
We measured state-dependent risk-taking in elephant seals throughout their 7-month migrations and found that skinny seals sacrifice safety for sustenance.
Here is an animation I made to tell the story. #gradschool – at Santa Cruz, CA
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New study published in Ecological Applications, in which we developed a decision support tool for postfire conifer restoration.
Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Main highlights of our @NatureComms paper: 'Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi ...' rdcu.be/b8osH
1) The ancestors of ectomycorrhizal fungi are genetically and ecologically diverse, making this a superb example of convergent evolution.
Will Savage taught me to play baseball when we were kids. He was a gifted lad and grew into a master—recruited to play for Detroit Tiger’s minor league teams for 2 years. But even so close to the top, many are forgotten.
Check out his great piece: nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o…
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A 2-kb Mycovirus Converts a Pathogenic Fungus into a Beneficial Endophyte for Brassica Protection and Yield Enhancement cell.com/molecular-plant/ful…
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A cool video showing the fire worm Chloeia (or something similar) moving and eating! #Wormwednesday!
