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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋
@godi.bsky.social
Biological oceanographer & phytoplankton connoisseur. Forest Lover. Stand up #TEDx person.🧚🏼‍♀️🦄🔬🌊 Views=mine. @institutrb.bsky.social
@BigelowLab.bsky.social @EMBO_YIN
https://jelenagodrijan.wixsite.com/godi
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🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!

Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
rdcu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This week we were sampling #coccolithophores #protistsonsky
on a beautiful Adriatic coast, again.
#CoccoChannel
Here presenting miss Helicosphaera 🌊🦠🧫🔬
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
New in @science.org: Calcifying plankton #coccolithophores, #foraminifera & #pteropods quietly drive the ocean carbon pump. Their traits (incl. “shallow dissolution”) are missing from many climate models. Time to put CaCO₃ back in the picture. #ClimateScience 🌊 doi.org/10.1126/scie... #protistsonsky
Calcifying plankton: From biomineralization to global change
The cycling of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the ocean is closely linked to seawater alkalinity and the regulation of atmospheric CO2. In the modern pelagic ocean, almost all CaCO3 is produced by three...
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Congrats @laurentformery.bsky.social

Often people ask why we chose to work on a certain problems and a simple answer for us in this case - it’s beautiful. If you want to learn the magic of building crystalline « gems » inside the body - see our latest paper at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Massive undertaking with @teppo-h.bsky.social and others out. We studied 4 years (!!!) of synthetic 23 microbial species community evolution with/without antibiotic. Resistance mutations occurring over years led to stepwise restructuring and ultimately recovery of undisturbed community composition.
October 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Microscopic, yet seen from space. Invisible, yet astronauts watch them glow.

Billions of tiny artists shape climate, feed the seas, and write history in calcium armor.

Meet them in 2 days.
#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Illustrations: Rosie Sheward
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
They are architects of the sea, engineers of the air—capturing carbon, atom by atom.

While you breathe, they build. While you sleep, they safeguard our climate.

#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Illustrations by Rosie Sheward
October 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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metaPR2 version 3.0 has just been released.

Here are the major changes:
- Metabarcodes (ASVs) are now annotated with the latest version of the PR2 reference sequence database (5.1.0).
- 8 new published datasets have been added from the Arctic and from the South West Pacific.

app.metapr2.org
MetaPR2
app.metapr2.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🪸🧪 We’re hiring! Join our ERC-funded group at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany to explore the cellular origins of photosymbiosis:⁣

𝟏 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 + 𝟐 𝐏𝐡𝐃𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.⁣
Deadlines: Oct 29 & Nov 5. Links below. ⁣

Questions: nils.raedecker@hifmb.de⁣
#Photosymbiosis #HIFMB #ERC #AcademicJobs
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Evolution of fungal mating systems: Study of #Cryptococcus & Kwoniella by @marcoacoelho.bsky.social @marciadavidpalma.bsky.social &co shows that MAT locus fusions & recombination suppression drive diversity of #SexualReproduction in #fungi @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/479579M
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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In a world visible only under a microscope, a story unfolds that's changing our planet.

Like grains of sand that build beaches, these microscopic organisms are constructing something far greater.

Follow us and reveal the secret heroes.

Illustrations by Rosie Sheward.
October 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🌊🔬 Looking for a postdoc to join our team!
Cocco-Channel project ➡️ studying coccolithophore phycospheres and their role in ocean carbon cycling.
✔️ Plus if you bring experience in microbial ecology, molecular/microscopy tools & fieldwork
👉 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375178
#protistsonsky
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
⚠️New paper ➡️ isolating >600 freshwater microbes using dilution-to-extinction and low-nutrient, lake-mimicking media.

🤯Expands cultured diversity to ~70 % of detected genera and enables physiological studies of streamlined oligotrophs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#protistsonsky
Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture - Nature Communications
A large fraction of aquatic bacteria remains uncultured. Here, the authors cultivated 627 strains of abundant freshwater bacteria from 14 European lakes, thus generating a collection that includes many previously uncultured, oligotrophic bacteria that may serve as model organisms.
www.nature.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
October 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
In a world visible only under a microscope, a story unfolds that's changing our planet. 🌊

#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🌊🔬 Looking for a postdoc to join our team!
Cocco-Channel project ➡️ studying coccolithophore phycospheres and their role in ocean carbon cycling.
✔️ Plus if you bring experience in microbial ecology, molecular/microscopy tools & fieldwork
👉 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375178
#protistsonsky
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Study reveals the hidden genomic diversity & global distribution of Phaeocystales — bloom-forming algae with surprising mixotrophic strategies, viral integrations, & adaption to polar vs temperate zones. #protistsonsky
Big step forward for marine ecology & biogeochemical models. 🧬🌊
📖 rdcu.be/eI4nv
Genome-resolved biogeography of Phaeocystales, cosmopolitan bloom-forming algae
Nature Communications - Phaeocystales are ecologically significant nanoplankton whose evolutionary history and functional diversity remain incompletely characterized. Here, the authors integrate...
rdcu.be
October 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Effect of cellular nutrient economy on the evolution of genome size in phytoplankton www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky
@hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
www.embl.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Do trophic strategies shape biogeography and environmental niches? Marine dinoflagellates as a case study academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs
September 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM