Johana Rotterova
@micrott.bsky.social
@JohanaProtists | Assistant Professor at Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez | MIC.Rott Lab | Protists | Symbioses in Marine Anaerobes | Microbial Interactions in Ciliates | www.microttlab.org | newPI
It’s worth trying!!!
October 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It’s worth trying!!!
That would be awesome! It is beautiful, but it also bursts when you look at it too long, lol.
October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
That would be awesome! It is beautiful, but it also bursts when you look at it too long, lol.
Five years later, I have my own lab. In Puerto Rico. And guess who's here!!! During one of our first lab field trips, we sampled a hypersaline shallow lagoon. Yes, Spirorhynchus was in there. Also by our dock. Trying to get in the lab?! We have welcomed him in and are interviewing his tufty friends!
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Five years later, I have my own lab. In Puerto Rico. And guess who's here!!! During one of our first lab field trips, we sampled a hypersaline shallow lagoon. Yes, Spirorhynchus was in there. Also by our dock. Trying to get in the lab?! We have welcomed him in and are interviewing his tufty friends!
One year later, in Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social, I got an incredible opportunity to join Joan Bernhard & Ginny Egdcomb on another cruise to SBB and pulled Spirorhynchus out of its cosy stinky home myself (well, watched the A-frame operator do it). Best bday (shared with the captain) EVR!!
October 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
One year later, in Beinart Lab @symbiosisrox.bsky.social, I got an incredible opportunity to join Joan Bernhard & Ginny Egdcomb on another cruise to SBB and pulled Spirorhynchus out of its cosy stinky home myself (well, watched the A-frame operator do it). Best bday (shared with the captain) EVR!!
The only paper I found showing micrograph of Spirorhynchus was Joan Bernhard's Nature paper 'Santa Barbara Basin is a symbiosis oasis' from 2000. A couple years after seeing it, to my amazement, Joan went to SBB again and brought a sample. It was still there!! www.nature.com/articles/47476
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The only paper I found showing micrograph of Spirorhynchus was Joan Bernhard's Nature paper 'Santa Barbara Basin is a symbiosis oasis' from 2000. A couple years after seeing it, to my amazement, Joan went to SBB again and brought a sample. It was still there!! www.nature.com/articles/47476
Well, yes way! It looks just like the drawing, over 110 years old. When I first saw a live cell in a saltmarsh sample in Cape Cod, over 10 years ago, I couldn't contain my happiness. It exists! Then, we found it again in several sites in Rhode Island with @symbiosisrox.bsky.social!
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Well, yes way! It looks just like the drawing, over 110 years old. When I first saw a live cell in a saltmarsh sample in Cape Cod, over 10 years ago, I couldn't contain my happiness. It exists! Then, we found it again in several sites in Rhode Island with @symbiosisrox.bsky.social!
When I first saw the drawing of Spirorhynchus in da Cunha, 1915, isolated from Brazilian Manguinhos, I thought nothing can really look like that - ectosymbionts organized in tuft balls spiralling around the cells? No way! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
When I first saw the drawing of Spirorhynchus in da Cunha, 1915, isolated from Brazilian Manguinhos, I thought nothing can really look like that - ectosymbionts organized in tuft balls spiralling around the cells? No way! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky