Jordan Sims
@jordansims.bsky.social
PhD, GMU ‘25 🌏 Rice ‘20 🦉 Microbial ecologist 🧬 Coral lover 🪸 Texan at heart 🤠 she/her 🏳️🌈
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Microbiome Dynamics in Early Life Stages of the Precious Mediterranean Red Coral Corallium rubrum #coral #microbiome enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Microbiome Dynamics in Early Life Stages of the Precious Mediterranean Red Coral Corallium rubrum #coral #microbiome enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
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Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges and opportunities
Growing insight into microbial symbioses highlights the need to model these systems mathematically. We discuss three areas requiring theoretical advan…
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July 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
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🪸🌊 New paper with @heatshok.bsky.social on environmental drivers of genetic divergence in Florida corals is out in Evolutionary Applications doi.org/10.1111/eva....
We investigated genotype-environment associations in two coral species across the Florida Reef Tract.
We investigated genotype-environment associations in two coral species across the Florida Reef Tract.
July 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
🪸🌊 New paper with @heatshok.bsky.social on environmental drivers of genetic divergence in Florida corals is out in Evolutionary Applications doi.org/10.1111/eva....
We investigated genotype-environment associations in two coral species across the Florida Reef Tract.
We investigated genotype-environment associations in two coral species across the Florida Reef Tract.
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Blissfully rewarding to see talented lab members become even greater scholars. Well done @kevindkohl.bsky.social. I love the arc of the history in this #holobiont biology piece and its relevance to nuance, dogma, and field growth. @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
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Through the microbial looking glass: our shifting understanding of the holobiont and microbes as mediators of organismal biology
Synopsis. Our understanding and appreciation for the role of microbial symbioses in the evolution and speciation of macro-organisms has fluctuated over tim
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June 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Blissfully rewarding to see talented lab members become even greater scholars. Well done @kevindkohl.bsky.social. I love the arc of the history in this #holobiont biology piece and its relevance to nuance, dogma, and field growth. @holobiontbiology.bsky.social
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Exploring how corals connect with their environment! 🪸🌊 Our new preprint investigates the (surprisingly large!) role of diel time, genotype, and fine-scale reef variation in shaping metagenomic communities in and around corals during annual spawning: tinyurl.com/2u3jvwja
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The microbial fingerprint: fine-scale environmental, genetic, and temporal factors drive the reef metagenome during coral spawning
Understanding the stability of microbial community assembly on coral reefs is crucial for determining their response to changing environments. Here, we evaluate how the marine sediment, water column, ...
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June 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Exploring how corals connect with their environment! 🪸🌊 Our new preprint investigates the (surprisingly large!) role of diel time, genotype, and fine-scale reef variation in shaping metagenomic communities in and around corals during annual spawning: tinyurl.com/2u3jvwja
@heatshok.bsky.social
@heatshok.bsky.social
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Excited to announce that our study on the impact of host-level #biodiversity and habitat complexity on shaping #coral reef-associated #microbiome dynamics has been accepted in ISME Communications - @isme-microbes.bsky.social @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social
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Host-level biodiversity shapes the dynamics and networks within the coral reef microbiome
Abstract. Coral reefs face severe threats from human activity, resulting in drastic biodiversity loss. Despite the urgency of safeguarding these ecosystems
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June 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Excited to announce that our study on the impact of host-level #biodiversity and habitat complexity on shaping #coral reef-associated #microbiome dynamics has been accepted in ISME Communications - @isme-microbes.bsky.social @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social
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Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
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June 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky
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Leveraging the GBR-MGD, we find that seawater microbes can reliably predict fisheries management practice. Microbes indicative of No Take Marine Reserves (NTMRs) have streamlined, low-GC genomes, fished reefs do not—turned out to be very interesting!
Excellent work led by @markoterzin.bsky.social
Excellent work led by @markoterzin.bsky.social
Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂
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The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef
Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pela...
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June 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Leveraging the GBR-MGD, we find that seawater microbes can reliably predict fisheries management practice. Microbes indicative of No Take Marine Reserves (NTMRs) have streamlined, low-GC genomes, fished reefs do not—turned out to be very interesting!
Excellent work led by @markoterzin.bsky.social
Excellent work led by @markoterzin.bsky.social
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Are you interested in land-sea connections and how they influence coral reefs? We’ve got two new papers for you this week on submarine groundwater discharge and how it affects coral physiology, species interactions, and community metabolism. Links below!
January 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Are you interested in land-sea connections and how they influence coral reefs? We’ve got two new papers for you this week on submarine groundwater discharge and how it affects coral physiology, species interactions, and community metabolism. Links below!
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📢 New paper alert!
How do corals fuel early development? We tracked physiological and -omic 🧬 changes across #coral 🪸 development. We found that symbiotic interactions are contribute to nutritional demands and shape metabolic response in early life stages.
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How do corals fuel early development? We tracked physiological and -omic 🧬 changes across #coral 🪸 development. We found that symbiotic interactions are contribute to nutritional demands and shape metabolic response in early life stages.
Read the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
May 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📢 New paper alert!
How do corals fuel early development? We tracked physiological and -omic 🧬 changes across #coral 🪸 development. We found that symbiotic interactions are contribute to nutritional demands and shape metabolic response in early life stages.
Read the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
How do corals fuel early development? We tracked physiological and -omic 🧬 changes across #coral 🪸 development. We found that symbiotic interactions are contribute to nutritional demands and shape metabolic response in early life stages.
Read the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species | PNAS
Biofilms are three-dimensional structures containing one or more bacterial species
embedded in extracellular polymeric substances. Although most bi...
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April 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This work is finally officially out!
Check out our paper, where we use various advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on the structures of a complex symbiotic organ and the communities of bacteria that live inside it.
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Check out our paper, where we use various advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on the structures of a complex symbiotic organ and the communities of bacteria that live inside it.
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Organ structure and bacterial microbiogeography in a reproductive organ of the Hawaiian bobtail squid reveal dimensions of a defensive symbiosis | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Sequence-based microbiome studies have revealed much about how hosts interact with
communities of symbiotic microbiota but often lack a spatial understanding of how
microbes relate to each other and t...
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April 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This work is finally officially out!
Check out our paper, where we use various advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on the structures of a complex symbiotic organ and the communities of bacteria that live inside it.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Check out our paper, where we use various advanced microscopy techniques to shed light on the structures of a complex symbiotic organ and the communities of bacteria that live inside it.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi‐stressor environment
Corals with high trophic plasticity, i.e., the ability to change the relative contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic nutrition to their mixotrophic diet, can have increased tolerance to indivi...
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April 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...
Endozoicomonas dominance and Vibrionaceae stability underpin resilience in urban coral Madracis auretenra
Coral resilience varies across species, with some exhibiting remarkable stability and adaptability, often mediated by their associated microbiomes. Given the species-specific nature of coral-microbiom...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...
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Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Sims on a successful dissertation defense! We couldn’t be more proud! 😊 🌊 🪸 🧫 🧬 @jordansims.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Sims on a successful dissertation defense! We couldn’t be more proud! 😊 🌊 🪸 🧫 🧬 @jordansims.bsky.social
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Excited to share JK Da'Anoy's first dissertation chapter published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social! What started off as a side project morphed into great work!
"Microbial depletion is associated with slower cnidarian regeneration"
LOTS of wondergrads made this happen!
Go team :)
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"Microbial depletion is associated with slower cnidarian regeneration"
LOTS of wondergrads made this happen!
Go team :)
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Microbial Depletion Is Associated with Slower Cnidarian Regeneration
Synopsis. Microbiomes play an important role in physiology and development in cnidarians, but how these communities influence tissue regeneration is poorly
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April 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Excited to share JK Da'Anoy's first dissertation chapter published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social! What started off as a side project morphed into great work!
"Microbial depletion is associated with slower cnidarian regeneration"
LOTS of wondergrads made this happen!
Go team :)
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
"Microbial depletion is associated with slower cnidarian regeneration"
LOTS of wondergrads made this happen!
Go team :)
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Yet to share our recent paper “Phylogenomic resolution of marine to freshwater dinoflagellate transitions” led by Mahara and @protistwtmostest.bsky.social. Includes work from two @science.ubc.ca undergraduates! 🤩
Freshwater dinoflagellates need more love! 💚
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Freshwater dinoflagellates need more love! 💚
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Phylogenomic resolution of marine to freshwater dinoflagellate transitions
Abstract. Dinoflagellates are an abundant and diverse group of protists that inhabit aquatic environments worldwide. They are characterized by numerous uni
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April 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yet to share our recent paper “Phylogenomic resolution of marine to freshwater dinoflagellate transitions” led by Mahara and @protistwtmostest.bsky.social. Includes work from two @science.ubc.ca undergraduates! 🤩
Freshwater dinoflagellates need more love! 💚
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Freshwater dinoflagellates need more love! 💚
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My dissertation defense is next week!! DM me for the Zoom link if you’re interested in hearing more about drivers of bacterial diversity on coral reefs (like environmental conditions, larval recruitment, and SCTLD)!
March 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My dissertation defense is next week!! DM me for the Zoom link if you’re interested in hearing more about drivers of bacterial diversity on coral reefs (like environmental conditions, larval recruitment, and SCTLD)!
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Fresh in @NatureBiotech! We developed a synthetic biology tool for tracking gene transfer in microbial communities and applied it to study plasmid hosts in a wastewater microbiome. Awesome collab with James Chappell & @joffsilberg.bsky.social and incredible students. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology
Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fresh in @NatureBiotech! We developed a synthetic biology tool for tracking gene transfer in microbial communities and applied it to study plasmid hosts in a wastewater microbiome. Awesome collab with James Chappell & @joffsilberg.bsky.social and incredible students. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“When I was on the ISS, looking down over our beautiful planet, the biggest thing I felt was the inspiration to be a better steward of the Earth” -Senator Bill Nelson
#StandUpForScience
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March 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was on the ISS, looking down over our beautiful planet, the biggest thing I felt was the inspiration to be a better steward of the Earth” -Senator Bill Nelson
#StandUpForScience
#StandUpForScience
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🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫
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March 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫
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Resolving Symbiodiniaceae Diversity Across Coral Microhabitats and Reef Niches enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
Resolving Symbiodiniaceae Diversity Across Coral Microhabitats and Reef Niches
We characterised the Symbiodiniaceae ITS2-based diversity across a tropical coral reef to quantify the connectivity between seawater, turf algae, sediment, coral tissue and coral mucus communities. A...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Resolving Symbiodiniaceae Diversity Across Coral Microhabitats and Reef Niches enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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Submarine groundwater discharge alters benthic community composition and functional diversity on coral reefs www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
Submarine Groundwater Discharge Alters Benthic Community Composition and Functional Diversity on Coral Reefs
Coral reefs experience numerous natural and anthropogenic environmental gradients that alter biophysical conditions and affect biodiversity. While many studies have focused on drivers of reef biodiver...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Submarine groundwater discharge alters benthic community composition and functional diversity on coral reefs www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
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🌊🧬🦠 Our new study on seawater microbes from the Great Barrier Reef! 🪸🐠🌊
🔗 microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👇 Key findings in threads below 👇
#CoralReef #Microbiome #MarineScience #GreatBarrierReef #Metagenomics #Monitoring
🔗 microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👇 Key findings in threads below 👇
#CoralReef #Microbiome #MarineScience #GreatBarrierReef #Metagenomics #Monitoring
Gene content of seawater microbes is a strong predictor of water chemistry across the Great Barrier Reef - Microbiome
Background Seawater microbes (bacteria and archaea) play essential roles in coral reefs by facilitating nutrient cycling, energy transfer, and overall reef ecosystem functioning. However, environmenta...
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January 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
🌊🧬🦠 Our new study on seawater microbes from the Great Barrier Reef! 🪸🐠🌊
🔗 microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👇 Key findings in threads below 👇
#CoralReef #Microbiome #MarineScience #GreatBarrierReef #Metagenomics #Monitoring
🔗 microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👇 Key findings in threads below 👇
#CoralReef #Microbiome #MarineScience #GreatBarrierReef #Metagenomics #Monitoring