Ich bin Jillian Petersen, Australierin und Meeresbiologin. Die Gesundheit der Weltmeere ist wichtig für alle Menschen, auch für Österreicher*innen! Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien #IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien

Hanging out in Brazil before a cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

It’s true, you only see what you’re looking for: After decades studying chemosynthetic symbionts in clam gills, we realized they colonize the digestive tract too 😱

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We’re hiring @microbesplanet.bsky.social !! There is an open postdoc position in my group to study host-microbe interactions in invasive species.
Apply here: microplanet.at/wp1.2-postdoc or get in touch with me for more info @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

SO excited that my team and I can continue our work on marine symbioses with an #ERCCoG SeaSym: Symbioses between plants and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria sustain coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems