I’m excited to announce that I’ve been honored with the DOE Early Career Award! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOE… We are seeking highly motivated postdoc and graduate student candidates to join our team. The postdoc position focuses on soil meta-omics analysis, the full ad coming soon~

Excited to see our paper on a new #comammox physiology published today in the print issue of Nature. Efforts to isolate new comammox strains with guanidine already on the way. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Preprint of my first first-author modeling paper (call me a modeler)! A novel framework explains microbial coexistence and their nitrogen dynamics in the ocean!🦠🌊Amazing coauthors Dr. Pearse J Buchanan Irene Zhang 🏳️‍🌈 magdalena san roman Andrew R. Babbin Emily Zakem biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Excited to share that our #TEALSHIPS #PostdocAd is finally posted! We are seeking a candidate with cruise experience interested in merging biological, chemical, and physical oceanographic data across eight cruises. More details and apply here (jobs.uncw.edu/postings/33807) by Nov 6th!

Are you interested in full length 16S rRNA sequencing on Oxford Nanopore? We developed a new workflow using UMIs and R10.4+ chemistry to enable highly accurate and multiplexed microbiome profiling. This was a long road, and I’m glad to see this out! 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

👇Come join us! The Institute for Environmental Genomics is hiring 3-4 postdocs to work on our exciting projects on Microbial Ecology! Apply now~ #MicrobialEcology #Postdoc #Hiring apply.interfolio.com/157796

👇We have an open research scientist position in data science at the Institute for Environmental Genomics at OU. Don’t miss this great opportunity! apply.interfolio.com/158652

Check out this great #conference on #Nitrification we are hosting next year! #Icon9 #Bremen #NO Max Planck Society

Now published in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New paper alert: Our 20-year study of viral ecology and evolution reveals viral roles in microbial dynamics, phage genome evolution over time, and key interactions with hosts. Chao (Zhichao) Zhou Patricia Tran, PhD Cody Martin Robin Rohwer Trina McMahon 🌪 @archaeal nature.com/articles/s4156…

🎉Huge congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Jizhong Zhou, on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! This prestigious honor recognizes his outstanding contributions to Microbial Ecology. We are proud and thrilled! National Academy of Sciences nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

Thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Microbiology and the Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this fall! Grateful to OU for all the support. Excited for the next chapter! Student/postdoc recruitment info coming soon~

We are pleased to announce a new fellowship opportunity for graduate students in #ecology and #evolution! Deadline is 7/31/2025: simonsfoundation.org/2025/06/02/sim… #science

I am hiring a research/technical specialist/manager to help us make the most out of new LC-MS instrumentation at USC! Please share the word and write me for more details. usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Congratulations to our six new 2025 Simons Early Career Investigators in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution! See full list: simonsfoundation.org/2025/07/01/ann… #science Gregory Britten Wei Qin

Honored to be part of this amazing group of awardees. Deeply grateful to the Simons Foundation for their continued support of my research journey—this recognition means even more after receiving Simons postdoctoral fellowship years ago.

Happy to share that the 1st chapter of my PhD on how coastal & oceanic Synechococcus deal with iron × warming interactions is now published in Environmental Microbiology Reports! …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

I am excited to share that I received an award from the National Science Foundation! I'm considering candidates for up to two postdoc positions - reach out by Aug 28th for full consideration. sites.google.com/uncc.edu/micro…