The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus has divergent light-harvesting antennae and may have evolved in a low-oxygen ocean pnas.org/content/118/11…

It's never too early for a #PiDay2021 remix of the forest of digits. It's lights out with the Bat Cave edition and a deep dive into Pi with the Underwater edition. Same digits you love, but cavernous and benthic. mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday2021/p…

Congratulations to the VAAM PhD-Award winners 2021: Iria Grundling (Marburg), Larissa Krüger (Göttingen) and Moritz Koch (Vancouver)! t1p.de/0vrt🎖️👏 Award presentations: Friday, 19.3. 15h t1p.de/ncm6 #VAAM2021 Larissa Krüger @MoritzKoch_

Cool read! Estimating maximal microbial growth rates from cultures, metagenomes, and single cells via codon usage patterns pnas.org/content/118/12…

Virus-induced cell gigantism and asymmetric cell division in archaea pnas.org/content/118/15…

Nice example of closing metagenome assembled genomes by combining long and short read methods. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Prototype storyboard of my animation to music by Max Cooper: 5-dimensional things do things. The goal isn't complete understanding but dyads and distortion. Live at the #Acropolis' Odeon of Herodes Atticus tomorrow. illust. | Augmented Reality Studio #herodesatticus ra.co/events/1443361

Climate action in action. drawdown.org/climate-soluti…

Exciting new tenure track position in synthetic biology at UBC <isme-microbes.org/jobs/assistant…>

Reminder to register for tomorrow's Gallagher Colloquium Series talk "Co-metabolic Innovation along Eco-thermodynamic Gradients" presented by Dr. Steven Hallam from the University of British Columbia. Secure your virtual seat at: ow.ly/coaI50GrvsF Hallam Lab APEGA

Check out the Microcosmos on the App Store. apps.apple.com/ca/app/the-mic…

Cool read! Prokaryotic responses to a warm temperature anomaly in northeast subarctic Pacific waters rdcu.be/czYo9

A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/

I've compiled a catalogue of all my journal and book cover designs: mkweb.bcgsc.ca/covers/ Most have a writeup about the joys and headaches of putting a data peg in an art hole. #datavis #design

My design on this month's Nature Biotechnology blooms to depict a lineage reconstruction of over 235 million sequences. Based on Fig. 2 from "Deep distributed computing to reconstruct extremely large lineage trees" lead by Nozomu Yachie yachielab nature.com/articles/s4158…

New sessional teaching opportunities in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC microbiology.ubc.ca/lecturer-oppor…

Check out new tenure track synthetic biology opportunities in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC microbiology.ubc.ca/faculty-opport… science.ubc.ca/about/careers

Congratulations to UBC Biomod on becoming Grand Champion of the BIOMOD2022 Japan Open for their DNA origami project biomod.jp/winners.html Follow this link to the project site for more information ubcbiomod.com/2020/home-2/

Congratulations to the UBC iGEM team on their Gold Medal placement in this year's Global Jamboree for their project focused on engineering heat-resistant wheat to feed the world jamboree.igem.org/2022/results/m… 2022.igem.wiki/ubc-vancouver/

Charming spring data blooms in R!