Paul Carini
@uncultured.carinilab.com
Systems Microbial Ecologist | Design Thinker | F1 & IndyCar fan. Metalhead. Studying microbes in Desert Soil and nearshore Marine Sediments.
Blog: uncultured.carinilab.com
Web: CariniLab.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-carini/
Blog: uncultured.carinilab.com
Web: CariniLab.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-carini/
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Paul Carini
@uncultured.carinilab.com
· Jun 8
Doctoral Program Personal Statements
While cleaning up some old folders on my computer, I came across my Personal Statement that I submitted with my application to grad schools in 2007.
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Happy International Mens Day!
If you are a teen, find a role model that exemplifies the honorable virtues of masculinity and strive toward compassion.
If you are an adult, strive to be a pillar of your community...but also go get a colonoscopy and check your prostate please.
If you are a teen, find a role model that exemplifies the honorable virtues of masculinity and strive toward compassion.
If you are an adult, strive to be a pillar of your community...but also go get a colonoscopy and check your prostate please.
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Happy International Mens Day!
If you are a teen, find a role model that exemplifies the honorable virtues of masculinity and strive toward compassion.
If you are an adult, strive to be a pillar of your community...but also go get a colonoscopy and check your prostate please.
If you are a teen, find a role model that exemplifies the honorable virtues of masculinity and strive toward compassion.
If you are an adult, strive to be a pillar of your community...but also go get a colonoscopy and check your prostate please.
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Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
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I feel this. A big part of my professional growth over the last few years has been the realization that I will not live to carry out the vast majority of my ideas. As a result, I'm much more open with sharing them than ever before.
Science is like this too 🧪
I am not aware of a single author who has a shortage of book ideas. Words, yes. Ways to make the ideas become a book, yes. But I've never met an author who doesn't have ideas just raining down all the damn time.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I feel this. A big part of my professional growth over the last few years has been the realization that I will not live to carry out the vast majority of my ideas. As a result, I'm much more open with sharing them than ever before.
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Map of seafloor where we are diving to sample sediments today.
#AsgardArchaea
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@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Map of seafloor where we are diving to sample sediments today.
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
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Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions.
Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting:
merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...
Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting:
merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...
ECR connection: Meet Meren when you need to
A means for ECRs to get advice from a senior scientist outside of their support network
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November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions.
Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting:
merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...
Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting:
merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...
Some really fantastic discussion in this live stream.
We just planned this canyon and now we are diving to explore and collect samples.
Watch live here - www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcea...
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
Watch live here - www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcea...
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Some really fantastic discussion in this live stream.
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It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv
youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv
youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
youtu.be/3JpbySeOO20?...
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Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay!
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Schmidt Ocean
Our Purpose: to excite interest and inform the wise stewardship of our planet.
Our Mission: Catalyze the discoveries needed to understand our ocean, sustain life, and ensure the health of our planet ...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay!
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Feel free to join and ask questions.
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
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📣New preprint alert!
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean
The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Earth primary production within days to weeks. After exc...
www.biorxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📣New preprint alert!
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
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Does anyone by any chance have a Ni-CODH database they could share it with me? Thanks!
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Does anyone by any chance have a Ni-CODH database they could share it with me? Thanks!
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I'm tasked with creating a career roadmap for our major (Biology), from enrollment to hire post grad. Does anyone have examples of ones they've done or find useful?
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm tasked with creating a career roadmap for our major (Biology), from enrollment to hire post grad. Does anyone have examples of ones they've done or find useful?
So, so cool to see all these microbial culture focused people all in the same room (in-person or virtual) at the @jgi.doe.gov Cultivation Jamboree!
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So, so cool to see all these microbial culture focused people all in the same room (in-person or virtual) at the @jgi.doe.gov Cultivation Jamboree!
Have any of my followers implemented a "flipped classroom" for an upper division Environmental Micro (or related) course? I am planning a re-work for my current class for next fall and considering a flipped modality.
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Have any of my followers implemented a "flipped classroom" for an upper division Environmental Micro (or related) course? I am planning a re-work for my current class for next fall and considering a flipped modality.
Good opportunity to be on Mark's podcast. Highly recommend! #microsky
Just looking for two guests for my #MattersMicrobial podcast. Slots open between 7AM and noon on Friday, November 28th and Friday, December 26th. DM me, email, and please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. Always looking for #MicrobialEnthusiasts.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Good opportunity to be on Mark's podcast. Highly recommend! #microsky
We've had a bad month for equipment failure this month. Three expensive incubators are down and one of our flow cytometers.
How do y'all deal with this financially once startup is gone? Do you budget in proposals for it? Do your departments help? College funds?
How do y'all deal with this financially once startup is gone? Do you budget in proposals for it? Do your departments help? College funds?
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We've had a bad month for equipment failure this month. Three expensive incubators are down and one of our flow cytometers.
How do y'all deal with this financially once startup is gone? Do you budget in proposals for it? Do your departments help? College funds?
How do y'all deal with this financially once startup is gone? Do you budget in proposals for it? Do your departments help? College funds?
ICYMI: Our latest shows what happens to transcriptional and metabolic profiles in a desiccated soil bacterium.
To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract.
Comments on the preprint are welcome!
#microsky #microbesky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract.
Comments on the preprint are welcome!
#microsky #microbesky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
ICYMI: Our latest shows what happens to transcriptional and metabolic profiles in a desiccated soil bacterium.
To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract.
Comments on the preprint are welcome!
#microsky #microbesky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract.
Comments on the preprint are welcome!
#microsky #microbesky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Please repost:
What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high
What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Please repost:
What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high
What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high
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📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣
Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!
Please share widely!
Deadline: 17 November
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!
Please share widely!
Deadline: 17 November
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
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October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣
Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!
Please share widely!
Deadline: 17 November
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!
Please share widely!
Deadline: 17 November
More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
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Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
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Come be my chair at The University of Arizona! We have great bike riding, hiking, and of course, science! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Department Head, Department of Immunobiology
Strategic LeadershipDevelop and execute a bold
vision for the Department of Immunobiology that advances understanding of
how immune and micr...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Come be my chair at The University of Arizona! We have great bike riding, hiking, and of course, science! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
For y'all y'all from the mid-atlantic-ish area of the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL34...
@jenbiddle.bsky.social
@surtlab.bsky.social
@jenbiddle.bsky.social
@surtlab.bsky.social
How Wawa Is Beating Fast Food Companies At Their Own Game
YouTube video by CNBC
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October 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
For y'all y'all from the mid-atlantic-ish area of the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL34...
@jenbiddle.bsky.social
@surtlab.bsky.social
@jenbiddle.bsky.social
@surtlab.bsky.social
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University of Arizona (kind of) rejects the Trump compact
I’m not super happy but I’m not super disappointed…we kinda half assed the reaction here
I’m not super happy but I’m not super disappointed…we kinda half assed the reaction here
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
University of Arizona (kind of) rejects the Trump compact
I’m not super happy but I’m not super disappointed…we kinda half assed the reaction here
I’m not super happy but I’m not super disappointed…we kinda half assed the reaction here
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I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection
Abstract. The order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic bacteria in the global surface ocean, where individual sublineages
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October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠
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📣#MTTM
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📣#MTTM
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.