Maggi Brisbin
@margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. / #newPI MICOlab @USFCMS studying interactions btwn marine microbes. ❤️ radiolarians, phytoplankton, bacteria. PhD from @oistedu. she/her.
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky
September 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky
Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#microbialsky
#microbialsky
August 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#microbialsky
#microbialsky
MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky
January 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky
That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky
December 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky
Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky
December 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky
I am so proud of my Xmas and oyster-loving PhD student Olivia for putting on a super fun and successful outreach event “VOGS and EggNog” yesterday - VOG are vertical oyster gardens and participants built over 600 VOGs for her dissertation project!
December 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I am so proud of my Xmas and oyster-loving PhD student Olivia for putting on a super fun and successful outreach event “VOGS and EggNog” yesterday - VOG are vertical oyster gardens and participants built over 600 VOGs for her dissertation project!
Happy thanksgiving science sky! This is my favorite holiday because it’s the only one that it is super acceptable to pressure your fam to run with you :)
November 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Happy thanksgiving science sky! This is my favorite holiday because it’s the only one that it is super acceptable to pressure your fam to run with you :)
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
June 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
June 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
I found a tree in Bordeaux that actually looks like a phylogenetic tree! Getting excited for the marine microbes GRC in a few days :)
June 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM
I found a tree in Bordeaux that actually looks like a phylogenetic tree! Getting excited for the marine microbes GRC in a few days :)
Ruby is a good citizen grad!
May 10, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Ruby is a good citizen grad!
We are having a faculty writing retreat this week in our beautiful library, complete with healthy treats and lots of wellness tools. If this doesn’t work…
May 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM
We are having a faculty writing retreat this week in our beautiful library, complete with healthy treats and lots of wellness tools. If this doesn’t work…
Good friends have good lab stickers and share them with you 😍😍 @hannahgreich.bsky.social
April 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Good friends have good lab stickers and share them with you 😍😍 @hannahgreich.bsky.social
Grad student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social made the best treats for lab meeting today. Thank you Lydia! They were as delicious as they were beautiful 😍😍😍😍 it’s the teeth for me 🤓🤓
March 6, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Grad student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social made the best treats for lab meeting today. Thank you Lydia! They were as delicious as they were beautiful 😍😍😍😍 it’s the teeth for me 🤓🤓
Fun find in the #PlanktoScope last week! Amid lots and lots and lots of Skeletonema sp. we also saw quite a few oyster larvae. This week, Skeletonema only (but even more of it!). Time-series collection is (almost) always fun and interesting :)
February 1, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Fun find in the #PlanktoScope last week! Amid lots and lots and lots of Skeletonema sp. we also saw quite a few oyster larvae. This week, Skeletonema only (but even more of it!). Time-series collection is (almost) always fun and interesting :)
Saw some crazy things in the planktoscope this week! All the copepods were covered in these mystery epibionts:
January 19, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Saw some crazy things in the planktoscope this week! All the copepods were covered in these mystery epibionts:
My favorite image from this week is this guy. I see a ciliate chowing down on a dinoflagellate. What do you see?
December 21, 2023 at 12:45 PM
My favorite image from this week is this guy. I see a ciliate chowing down on a dinoflagellate. What do you see?
A few highlights from the PlanktoScope this week! We saw more diversity this week all around - dinoflagellates, ciliates, zooplankton, and diatoms.
December 21, 2023 at 12:43 PM
A few highlights from the PlanktoScope this week! We saw more diversity this week all around - dinoflagellates, ciliates, zooplankton, and diatoms.
MICOlab PlanktoScope is finally up and running! Had a busy semester, but am so amped to start this using awesome tool regularly! Lots of diatoms and copepods off the CMS seawall yesterday. Stay tuned for more plankton updates :)
December 14, 2023 at 3:22 PM
MICOlab PlanktoScope is finally up and running! Had a busy semester, but am so amped to start this using awesome tool regularly! Lots of diatoms and copepods off the CMS seawall yesterday. Stay tuned for more plankton updates :)
MICOlab lab meeting today was an end of semester wrap-up, look-back, and ginger-bread reef building competition!
December 8, 2023 at 2:03 AM
MICOlab lab meeting today was an end of semester wrap-up, look-back, and ginger-bread reef building competition!
CMS PhD student Olivia Blondheim hosted an amazing outreach event at Weedon Island Preserve this weekend!! We had so much fun learning about vertical oyster gardens (VOGs) and making our own to contribute to Olivia's project and to hang at the community dock our family has access to.
December 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
CMS PhD student Olivia Blondheim hosted an amazing outreach event at Weedon Island Preserve this weekend!! We had so much fun learning about vertical oyster gardens (VOGs) and making our own to contribute to Olivia's project and to hang at the community dock our family has access to.
Proud #newPI- one of my grad students and two students whose committees I serve on were recognized for being awarded endowed fellowships last night. It was a really lovely evening with lots of fun historical context 🤓
November 3, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Proud #newPI- one of my grad students and two students whose committees I serve on were recognized for being awarded endowed fellowships last night. It was a really lovely evening with lots of fun historical context 🤓
New lab members bring new challenges. Pyrodinium cell walls make fluorescent microscopy more difficult, but they are still super cute :)
October 26, 2023 at 4:43 PM
New lab members bring new challenges. Pyrodinium cell walls make fluorescent microscopy more difficult, but they are still super cute :)
I had the best trip to LA to give a seminar for the Marine and Environmental Biology dept at USC - such great energy, enthusiasm, & curiosity, it was so fun meeting everyone & talking science. Im also super happy to be home for lab meeting day, a great paper discussion, and vegan monkey bread!
October 19, 2023 at 6:29 PM
I had the best trip to LA to give a seminar for the Marine and Environmental Biology dept at USC - such great energy, enthusiasm, & curiosity, it was so fun meeting everyone & talking science. Im also super happy to be home for lab meeting day, a great paper discussion, and vegan monkey bread!
My worlds collide 🤯🤯 Ptown ferry on the USF campus 👀👀. Apparently it’s winter job is the Tampa Bay Ferry.
October 13, 2023 at 7:24 PM
My worlds collide 🤯🤯 Ptown ferry on the USF campus 👀👀. Apparently it’s winter job is the Tampa Bay Ferry.