📣 New C-CoMP Pub. Alert!
Interested in marine microbial metabolites 🌊🦠? If so, check out this new pub., led by Bryndan Durham & Winn Johnson, that emerged from C-CoMP's Labile DOM workshop: An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem.
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I'm thrilled to announce the publication of our new paper! It was a privilege to co-author this work, which was led by two exceptional #womeninSTEM, Bryndan Durham (UFL) and Winifred Johnson (UNCW), and involved a wonderful team of collaborators. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My first UG mentee @WLU accepted an offer to pursue her PhD @ UI Urbana-Champaign working on primate #microbiomes. She came into my microbiome class my 1st year as faculty planning on vet school & was inspired to do #research in my lab & hasn't looked back. Why I love what I do! So freaking proud.

Used the #thankamicrobe idea of @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social to teach my upperclass #microbiology students how we benefit from microbial metabolisms & it was awesome! Posted them in our dept and have thoroughly enjoyed catching visitors, staff & other students reading them! Check out a few examples:

Check out my newly published work in Scientific Reports where @amyapprill.bsky.social, Cara Fiore, Cole Easson and myself present data showing that compounds in sponge exhalent water influence the composition, growth, and nutrient cycling of coral reef picoplankton.
rdcu.be/d49mx

📢 Hey! We're hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to accelerate discoveries on the molecular biology of the symbiosis between #Drosophila and #Wolbachia. Know anyone who loves molecular studies of bugs, bacteria, and/or bacteriophages?

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#ASLO25 abstracts due Oct 21st!!

Please consider submitting an abstract to our session SS08: Integrating and developing #omics technologies in #aquatic community #ecology with @aliciareigel.bsky.social

*invited speakers* @nekton4plankton.bsky.social and Anders Kiledal !
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Teaching #microbiology lecture/lab for the first time next semester. Excited to model it after a more modern version of the field! Does anyone have any materials they'd be willing to share or any advice on a structure (for lecture or lab) that has worked well for you to cover the basics + modernize?

Early registration & abstract submission for the Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2025 in Charlotte, NC ends on Oct 21, 2024. Consider submitting an abstract to present in the session I'm co-chairing (details below) or another session! Reach out with any questions or comments. Hope to see you there!

Anyone used DESS for room temp preservation of soil, water, or animal-associated microbial DNA? Does it work well? What "recipe" did you use? @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @reefgenomics.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social @vibriosoup.bsky.social ??

Check out our latest pub in Communications Biology. Really cool study that elucidates a nutrient recycling pathway in which the coral holobiont incorporates nutrients from sponge-derived matter. Potentially major implications for coral reef restoration and coral aquaculture endeavors. rdcu.be/dxCUr