A final version of our paper, “A k-mer-Based Approach for Phylogenetic Classification of Taxa in Environmental Genomic Data” is out in Society of Systematic Biologists! This was my first all computational (no wet lab) project. Thanks Timothy Stephens Debashish Bhattacharya! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

Terrific talk by Timothy Stephens and Debashish Bhattacharya (Rutgers University) about their multi-omics research on coral resilience 🪸 Carnegie Science Carnegie Plants Congrats for your really great and inspiring work!! 👏🏻👏🏻

Doing science can be fun, but doing so with amazing collaborators like Debashish Bhattacharya and Timothy Stephens just brings it to another level. Thank you both so much for visiting, it was so much fun!!

We are excited to present a multi-omics analysis of the coral thermal stress response (cell.com/iscience/fullt…). It is understandably complex. Great work Timothy Stephens and team at Rutgers University–New Brunswick Rutgers SEBS Rutgers NJAES Revive & Restore U.S. National Science Foundation.

How can symbiosis researchers help ameliorate the harmful impacts of climate change? Join us for a public discussion in the Field Museum, Chicago as part of ISE 2023 (International Society of Endocytobiology). The panel will lead discussion on the topic. Rutgers Today Revive & Restore U.S. National Science Foundation

Some great talks this morning on the last day of #ISE23. Sally Mackenzie, Martin Lohr, Sergio Muñoz-Gómez, and Sergio López-Madrigal.

We put forward a working hypothesis of how facultative lifestyle drives the diversity of coral algal symbionts - now out Trends in Ecology & Evolution #OpenAccess - fun collaboration with Debashish Bhattacharya Timothy Stephens Erin Chille L. Felipe Benites Rutgers SEBS! @ace_uq UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

Congratulations Julia Van Etten (Julia Van Etten) for winning the 2023 OUP Publisher's Award for her paper on using k-mers in phylogenetic classification (academic.oup.com/sysbio/article…). Tim Stephens (Timothy Stephens) made major contributions to the work. Great job Julia and Tim!

See our new film about bringing modern tools of coral conservation to reef managers around the world. Full video, "Diverse Tools for Diverse Coral Reefs and Cultures," available at youtu.be/v85olxNBSgE Rutgers SEBS Rutgers Research U.S. National Science Foundation Revive & Restore Rutgers Today

The launch of OceanOmics Inc. has happened. Dedicated to developing and deploying cutting-edge, tools for monitoring the health of marine resources such as corals and shellfish, worldwide. Thanks to all of our supporters, in particular, Revive & Restore.

The virus community associated with red algal mats in Yellowstone National Park dominated by Megaviricetes with resident virus lineages being of ancient origin:nature.com/articles/s4200… Debashish Bhattacharya NASA L. Felipe Benites Timothy Stephens, Julia Van Etten Rutgers SEBS Rutgers Today Rutgers University–New Brunswick

A nice description in Science magazine by Liz Pennisi of the major results from our paper (L. Felipe Benites Timothy Stephens Julia Van Etten Joint Genome Institute) on Yellowstone National Park viruses can be found here, science.org/content/articl… (Rutgers SEBS Rutgers Today Phyc. Soc. America Rutgers NJAES)

“Diverse fates of ancient horizontal gene transfers in extremophilic red algae”. New paper out today about how HGTs are integrated into eukaryotic genomes! Thanks to Timothy Stephens Erin Chille Debashish Bhattacharya, collaborators Joint Genome Institute, and NASA FINESST! …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

This paper was a lot of hard work, but worth it. We start to learn how Paulinella meets its CO2 needs in the chromatophore (…icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…). Congratulations Arwa G, Timothy Stephens John Reinfelder Victoria Calatrava and Arthur G. Rutgers SEBS Rutgers NJAES Carnegie Science

We have an opening in my lab for a postdoc with expertise in algal/seaweed biotechnology, in particular, metabolic engineering and carbohydrate biochemistry, with some bioinformatics training. Email me at [email protected], if this fits your background and aspirations

What a pleasure to have Hwan Su Yoon from Sungkyunkwan University in S. Korea visiting us in New Jersey. His group is doing path-breaking, creative algal research. Our long-term collaboration has always been joyful and spirited.

Congratulations to Erin Chille for her paper on why genotype matters when studying coral stress responses (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…). You can hear the live version at Evolution Meetings. Congrats also to co-authors Timothy Stephens Deeksha Misri @EmmaStrand4 and @HolliePutnam

What a great time in Montreal at #Evol2024 with friends old and new! Thanks Evolution Meetings and especially Society of Systematic Biologists for being so welcoming and putting together such a fun and interesting conference!

Congratulations to our international team for publishing this wonderful paper about how microalgae and microbes interact at Yellowstone National Park to maintain stable ecosystems (academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…). Debashish Bhattacharya Julia Van Etten Thomas Mock Chung Hyun CHO Joint Genome Institute Andreas Weber ISME Communications

🚨 Excited to share my first ever review article, now out in BioEssays! 🚨 We explore how human point-of-care diagnostic tests can be adapted to monitor coral health! 🧬🌊 Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/bies.7… #CoralReefs #Biotech #Conservation #MarineGenomics