Interested in microbes, biofilms & nutrient cycles? The UConn Microbial Ecophysiology Lab is pleased to share this article about the work of Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado ᴀʟᴇx ᴘʀᴏʙꜱᴛ Chris Greening @archaeal The Banfield Lab & colleagues (tag them please). Amplifying diverse voices together!

The virtual reality application PlanktoQuest (photosymbiosis.com/planktoquest/), a full immersion in the plankton, is now freely available on the Metaquest store. You just need to have the headset! Don't hesitate to contact us for help and to spread the news. Thanks!

Active viral ecology of deep sea brine pool in the Gulf of Aqaba. Latest from our lab, and great collaboration with UMiami Marine Geoscience department. Spearheaded by Monir lab PhD student Benjamin Minch! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…

Ready to lead your own research team-?😎The Max Planck Society offers you the chance to head an independent Research Group at a participating Max Planck Institute of your choice - the next open topic call starts on Sep 9, 2024. Stay tuned for updates!🌟 mprg.mpg.de

Mandaragat reunion with Peter Paolo Rivera and Deo Onda! So nice to catch up with fellow Filipinos doing microbial ecology at #ISME19

"Borgs are viruses and not megaplasmids" #ISME19 -Jill Banfield

ISME19 is the first ISME Symposium held in South Africa. Philip Hugenholtz kicks off by giving an update on ISME Society! #ISME19 #MicrobialEcology

#ISME19 Lunch Break: Auditorium 1 - Bird's Eye View Presentation by Victoria Orphan, CalTech, United States. ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology #microbiology #ecology #microbialecology

What a great keynote talk by Jean-Baptiste Raina today at #ISME19 honouring the memory of Alma - and many interested to discuss with JB after his talk

Rob Knight Knight Lab University of California, San Diego on Enabling the microbial ecology research community with scalable computational and laboratory tools and open data #ISME19

#isme19, Rob Knight hints at the development of a CrapGPT App— as a means to self diagnose what we eat directly in the supermarket, and that would have consequences on keeping the good microbiome! ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology Wild Microbes

The #ISME20 will be held in Auckland in 2026. Mike Taylor gave an awesome intro, and we are all excited for celebrating the 49th (or 50th🙂) year since the symposium happened in 1977. #ISME19 ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology The ISME Journal ISME Communications

Exciting opportunity for Early Career Scientists! ISME Society Journals and ISME ECSC are inviting applications for the ISME ECS Reviewer Pool. Are you an ECS in microbial ecology with a maximum of 8 years of post-PhD experience? APPLY NOW! isme-microbes.org/isme-early-car…

Just put together a simple guide on how to vectorize R plots in PowerPoint. Check out my first Medium article 🥳 nalinan.medium.com/how-to-vectori…

Save the date! 📢 We are excited to announce M2C2-2025: Marine Microbial Chemical Communication, a conference exploring cutting-edge research on chemically mediated microbial interactions in the marine environment. The conference will take place from March 17-20, 2025, at NIOZ >>

Meet the microbiologist Nicole Dubilier: From #Hydrothermal #Vents to Cold Seeps: How #Bacteria Sustain #Ocean Life With Nicole Dubilier Listen to the podcast ASM Ashley Hagen: asm.org/Podcasts/MTM/E… or watch on YouTube: youtu.be/OC9vqE1visc Max Planck Society

Finally published! Pirsoniales (Stramenopiles) is a poorly studied order of marine parasites of diatoms with unique life cycle. We have described 5 new genera and species, all of them are predatory flagellates feeding on diverse eukaryotic prey doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13… (1/7)

Upcoming EMBO workshop at the interface between #cellbiology and #climatescience. An exciting opportunity to bring together biologists, policy makers and science funders. Register here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-clima… I have a few ideas ThePlanktonManifesto

📢 Registration is now open for M₂C₂ 2025: Marine Microbial Chemical Communication​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Conference! 🦠🌊🦠🌊 17-20 March 2025 NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Texel, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Register now: aanmelder.nl/m2c2-marine-mi…

The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior will be in Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. Alma Dal Co 1/12