#Scientists have discovered the #gene that enables marine #algae to make a unique type of #chlorophyll .
news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/… UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside UCR Bioengineering

I am recruiting a PhD student to work on microbial communities in Arctic ecosystems. This is a great opportunity for someone interested in combining field, lab, and computational approaches. If you are interested, message me for more information.

Huautla de Jiménez in Oaxaca, MX, was the home of the curandera María Sabina, and where many of the initiators of the modern psychedelic movement came to know of the ceremonial relationship between humans and psilocybin-producing mushrooms, from Schultes to Wasson. [1/4]

So many crises in academia! 😧 Thanks ASM editors for brainstorming on the peer reviewer shortage.
Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

In new work by Alex and team using isotopologues and molecular tools, we show how denitrifiers can account for most of the N2O pulse produced in a desert.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This one took a while 😰, but so happy it's out: academic.oup.com/femsle/advance… 'Tracking fungal species-level responses in soil environments exposed to long-term warming and associated drying'

A toolbox of machine learning software to support microbiome analysis frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Hey microbiome people,

I've compiled several lists (&regularly updating!) that might be of your interest:

👔Microbiome events github.com/SvetlanaUP/Mic…

📻Microbiome podcasts github.com/SvetlanaUP/Mic…

🧫<->💻Bioinformatics learning resources github.com/SvetlanaUP/A-m…

Happy Friday!

I’ve handled the review of > 1000 papers at @nature. Over time, you notice aspects of presentation on which reviewers tend to comment. In the interests of minimizing hassles during review, I offer the following suggestions (a bit targeted to climate papers).

🧬2024 Microgrant applications are open! 🧬This round is in collaboration with miniPCR bio and includes a mini16x thermocycler, a blueGel electrophoresis system, a pipette, and a field carrying case. Submissions due by 15 DEC 2023. drive.google.com/file/d/1hJqUyz…

I have seen all 4 of these lines of best fit in published peer-reviewed papers and oddly the top left is probably the rarest type 📉

I am really excited to report one of the most exciting findings that we found!! 🌿Summary: we identified a fungus that is ecologically dominant and lives on the stalk gland of sundew! And the fungus facilitates its prey digestion!!!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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I’m hiring a soil biogeochemistry postdoc Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study soil-based strategies for carbon removal in the field, esp. interactions between soil organic C cycling and enhanced weathering. Work with an amazing, collaborative team! Salary: $108K/yr.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/LLNL/374399000…

Not enough people know about bioicons.com
Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.

My department is hiring an Assistant professor of fungal biology #fungi #AcademicTwitter #professorjob Mycological Society of America MSA Student and Postdoc Section microplantpath.ucr.edu/job-opportunit…

Leveraging genomics to understand the broader role of fungal small secreted proteins in niche colonization and nutrition

nature.com/articles/s4370…

I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab as soon as possible to work on the analysis of thousands of metagenome-assembled genomes. If you have someone who might be interested, please let them know. The position is funded for only one year. Thanks.

gwu.jobs/postings/106421

ICYMI: Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes 🌎

Gabin Piton UCI ESS UCI Ecology and Evolutionary Biol @INRAE_OCC_MPL Steven Allison Dr. Kathleen Treseder Falk Hildebrand UCI Microbiome UCI OCEANS

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Student and Early Career Connections: Join us online Oct 20 for an opportunity to get to know local SAFE chapters and share plans for the upcoming year. Register here: fireecology.org/safe-connectio…

I'm looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to work on interactions among microclimates, vegetation, and ecosystem processes across heterogeneous landscapes. The position is based at Carnegie/Stanford, and would involve fieldwork and land surface modeling. jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdocto…