Chrysoparadoxa australica: The golden paradox – a new heterokont lineage with chloroplasts surrounded by 2 membranes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp… #protists #algae The outer chloroplast membrane is continuous between the two chloroplasts via the outer membrane of the nuclear envelope

And today in the Twisted Tree of Life Award - the only way to study evolution is to try and make fake reconstructions of past events phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2019/01/and-to… #protists #eukaryogenesis by Jonathan Eisen

Two new positions in ecology in the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne: careers.pageuppeople.com/422/ci/en/job/…

And let’s do that in different light conditions, shall we... #NaturalSelection #algae

Most of the lab is at Heron Island at the moment on fieldwork setting up some cool projects related to the algae in coral skeletons #ostreobium Stay tuned for updates!

Masters of philosophy candidate Kavitha is upskilling in Linux and HPC to support her research project into codon usage bias, effective population size and the evolution of algal genomes

The latest issue of the Journal of Phycology is out! Read it now! bit.ly/2IhJytI The cover image is of the new sand‐dwelling genus Chrysoparadoxa australica from R Wetherbee. #JPhycol #algae #heterokont

Young Molecular Biologists grow up at VerbruggenLab @unimelb

doi.org/10.1016/j.ympe… New paper: Morphological evolution and classification of the red algal order Ceramiales inferred using plastid phylogenomics

Our research on evolution of tropical brittle stars is out! @DrTimOHara Heroen Verbruggen

New work on green seaweed origins out on bioRxiv – excellent work by Andrea Del Cortona, with @fleliaer Olivier De Clerck Vandepoele lab @vandepoelelab.bsky.social Chris Jackson Charles Delwiche he/him and others – doi.org/10.1101/668475

Congratulations to @MarisaAlgae for winning the Sophie Ducker award to fund her work on endolithic algae photobiology with David J Suggett and Heroen Verbruggen

Congratulations to kavitha to present such an interesting work on Molecular Evolution of Green Algal plastomes through endosymbiosis bottleneck. Genetics AustralAsia Science at Melbourne VerbruggenLab

More VerbruggenLab members sharing their research at #GSA2019! Marisa presents her study into evolution of the red algae Ceremiales. Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Heroen Verbruggen is talking about #Archaeplastida; they used #chloroplast genome data to observe diversification trends and create a time-calibrated #phylogeny ~ #MolecularPhylogeny at #EPC7

Very excited to announce that Australian Research Council awarded us 3 years of funding to study how microbial metabolism and microenvironments in the skeleton of corals affect their functioning and health. Looking forward to exciting work with @crazycatzzz MicroEcology Lab Medina Lab PSU @unimelb

Our cherished review on community assembly and functions of the coral skeleton microbiome is out! With ⁦@Fra_Ricci_⁩ ⁦⁦VerbruggenLab⁩ @crazycatzzz⁩ ⁦MicroEcology Lab and ⁦Medina Lab PSU⁩ microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Postdoc in coral holobiont ecogenomics available in my lab, on a project with @crazycatzzz @momedinamunoz MicroEcology Lab. See phycoweb.net. Please RT.