Jonas Blomme
@jonasblomme.bsky.social
Biologist | Associate professor working on Seaweed | Phycology Research Group and Plant Genome Editing Group (University of Ghent) | Posts about plant and marine science | https://jacobslab.sites.vib.be/en/ulva
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January 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Interested to learn more about Plant Biotechnology? Enroll in our one-year Subsequent Master program and enjoy a training at Europe's largest Agro-biotech campus: masterplantbiotechnology.ugent.be
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Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics #Photosynthesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics #Photosynthesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our article about Sea lettuce #seaweed biodiversity is now published in TAXON: "Incorporating historic specimens to reassess Ulva diversity in the Netherlands and Belgium"
We found Ulva shanxiensis, a freshwater species, for the first time outside China!
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We found Ulva shanxiensis, a freshwater species, for the first time outside China!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our article about Sea lettuce #seaweed biodiversity is now published in TAXON: "Incorporating historic specimens to reassess Ulva diversity in the Netherlands and Belgium"
We found Ulva shanxiensis, a freshwater species, for the first time outside China!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We found Ulva shanxiensis, a freshwater species, for the first time outside China!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3)
@louisefirth.bsky.social
@louisefirth.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3)
@louisefirth.bsky.social
@louisefirth.bsky.social
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For this #PhycologyFriday I'm happy to share my ✨new paper✨ about #kelp disease -> rdcu.be/ets28
Pink-spot disease occurs in kelp nurseries across North America and Europe according to our survey and we identified a bacteria (Algicola sp.) as the likely causative agent.
🦑 #aquaculture
Pink-spot disease occurs in kelp nurseries across North America and Europe according to our survey and we identified a bacteria (Algicola sp.) as the likely causative agent.
🦑 #aquaculture
June 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For this #PhycologyFriday I'm happy to share my ✨new paper✨ about #kelp disease -> rdcu.be/ets28
Pink-spot disease occurs in kelp nurseries across North America and Europe according to our survey and we identified a bacteria (Algicola sp.) as the likely causative agent.
🦑 #aquaculture
Pink-spot disease occurs in kelp nurseries across North America and Europe according to our survey and we identified a bacteria (Algicola sp.) as the likely causative agent.
🦑 #aquaculture
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Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4dwzl8j
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4dwzl8j
May 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Kelp forests on the coast of Maine are in decline owing to rapid ocean warming and are being replaced by turf algae, which alter the ecosystem’s chemistry, hindering the recovery of kelp forests.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4dwzl8j
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4dwzl8j
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Online now: Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of sex-biased genes in green seaweed Ulva
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Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of sex-biased genes in green seaweed Ulva - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background The evolution of differences in gamete size and number between sexes is a cornerstone of sexual selection theories. The green macroalga Ulva, with incipient anisogamy and parthenogenetic ga...
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May 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Online now: Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of sex-biased genes in green seaweed Ulva
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Giving up on #photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows marine #diatoms to live on a #seaweed diet phys.org/news/2025-04...
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
April 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Giving up on #photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows marine #diatoms to live on a #seaweed diet phys.org/news/2025-04...
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
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POSTDOC POSITION in the group of @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social
More info here: jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...
More info here: jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...
Postdoctoral Researcher - VIB
OverviewThe group of Specialized Metabolism, led by Prof. Alain Goossens at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, and the metabolic engineering researc
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April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
POSTDOC POSITION in the group of @alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social
More info here: jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...
More info here: jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...
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Expanding the toolkit for ploidy manipulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social
Expanding the toolkit for ploidy manipulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Whole-genome duplications, widely observed in plant lineages, have significant evolutionary and ecological impacts. Yet, our current understanding of the direct implications of ploidy shifts on shor.....
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March 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Expanding the toolkit for ploidy manipulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social
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In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion.
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
March 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion.
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
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Qiangnan Feng (Nowack lab @moritznowack.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social ) shows that cell-type specific elevated autophagy in root hairs extends their lifespan by suppressing premature senescence and age-induced programmed cell death www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Root hair lifespan is antagonistically controlled by autophagy and programmed cell death
Root hairs are tubular tip-growing extensions of root epidermal cells that enhance root surface area for water and nutrient uptake. While mechanisms governing root hair fate, polarity, and tip growth ...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Qiangnan Feng (Nowack lab @moritznowack.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social ) shows that cell-type specific elevated autophagy in root hairs extends their lifespan by suppressing premature senescence and age-induced programmed cell death www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.
March 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.
Access our latest paper on Ulva CRISPR without restrictions via the following link: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/5WWAMD...
March 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Access our latest paper on Ulva CRISPR without restrictions via the following link: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/5WWAMD...
Very happy to announce our article is accepted in @newphyt.bsky.social, learn how to make mutant seaweed online: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Very happy to announce our article is accepted in @newphyt.bsky.social, learn how to make mutant seaweed online: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.
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We are searching for a postdoc in Marine Phytoplankton Metabolism and Carbon Storage! You'll get the chance to work in Belgium to combine high-throughput metabolomics and enzymes to study how microbes naturally sequester atmospheric carbon in organic marine molecules!
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March 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
We are searching for a postdoc in Marine Phytoplankton Metabolism and Carbon Storage! You'll get the chance to work in Belgium to combine high-throughput metabolomics and enzymes to study how microbes naturally sequester atmospheric carbon in organic marine molecules!
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Check our new paper reporting that Carbon burial in sediments below seaweed farms matches that of Blue Carbon habitats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon burial in sediments below seaweed farms matches that of Blue Carbon habitats - Nature Climate Change
To understand the potential for seaweed as a Blue Carbon strategy, the authors quantify carbon burial under 20 globally distributed seaweed farms. They attribute an average of 1.06 ± 0.74 tCO2e ha−1 y...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Check our new paper reporting that Carbon burial in sediments below seaweed farms matches that of Blue Carbon habitats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
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An (unfortunate) title that says it all. Time to get nutrient inputs under control across all systems and regions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs cause excessive algal growth for nearly half the world’s population - Nature Communications
Human impact has increased total nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations over reference conditions and doubled the areas affected by potentially harmful algal growth, impacting around 40% of the global...
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February 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
An (unfortunate) title that says it all. Time to get nutrient inputs under control across all systems and regions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This year’s edition of our internal PSB @psb-vib.bsky.social symposium #PSBmeets25 in full swing. Off to 2 days of seminars, poster sessions, discussions, and party!
February 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This year’s edition of our internal PSB @psb-vib.bsky.social symposium #PSBmeets25 in full swing. Off to 2 days of seminars, poster sessions, discussions, and party!
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"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research
This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...
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February 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Excited to see our work on the cover of Current Biology this month!
Read about it in the thread below. 🧪🦑🌊
Read about it in the thread below. 🧪🦑🌊
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Excited to see our work on the cover of Current Biology this month!
Read about it in the thread below. 🧪🦑🌊
Read about it in the thread below. 🧪🦑🌊