BIG NEWS: We’ve successfully cultivated #Nereocystis #bullkelp in closed lab conditions IN DECEMBER. Some already ~0.5m long. Congrats to Varoon P Supratya! A breakthrough in our work on #kelp development & physiology. #KelpOnDemand Phyc. Soc. America Hakai Institute Bamfield MSC UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social)

Check out this study in #Bullkelp Nereocystis development, only possible bc of the hard work of Patrick Martone student Varoon P Supratya. That dot on the left is a barely macroscopic sporophyte!

What do you do when your #bullkelp start to outgrow your lab tanks? YOU BUILD TINY HARNESSES 😍Yet another #kelp innovation by Varoon P Supratya. #CheckYoStipe #Nereocystis UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social) UBC Botany UBCBiodiversity UBC Science

Many beautiful #seaweed pressings this year. Tough to pick a favourite!😍Hakai Institute #HakaiSeaweedSurvey2022

Attention #algae #plant #cellwall folks! If you missed it, former MSc Jan Xue discovered a #cellulose synthase in the red #seaweed #Calliarthron… And verified its function by expressing it in #Arabidopsis! A triumph in red algal biology! Phyc. Soc. America The British Phycological Society 1/7

Saying farewell to Cammie, our #kelp culture technician, as she starts an MSc in ecological restoration Simon Fraser University / British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Plus, celebrating sunshine and ice cream with some of our rockstar #seaweed researchers. Rachael Wade, PhD Varoon P Supratya @Maisie_RoyMusor etc!

The #Calliarthron #transcriptome is now published! Suggesting convergent evolution of #lignin biosynthesis in this fascinating #coralline alga + enabling future work on #algae #calcification etc. Congrats to Jan Xue and collaborators! Phyc. Soc. America The British Phycological Society UBC Botany UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social)

How can #Nereocystis #kelp grow so big in fast flow? New #biomechanics paper by @BabyNereo shows #morphology matters! Each new #seaweed blade adds less drag than the last, truly "less than the sum of its parts" doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13… Journal of Phycology Phyc. Soc. America UBC Botany UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social)

Check out these baby #Nereocystis #kelp we grew in the lab! @BabyNereo is studying how water flow affects blade splitting, development, and #morphology. Huge thanks to our in-house kelp farmer Varoon P Supratya. The magic is happening! UBC Botany Phyc. Soc. America

Using my 2019 annotated photos to help ID a #seaweed from Stanley Park. Lots of work to make but details immediately fall out of my brain so glad I did. Wish more annotated photos were out there! #phycologyfriday inaturalist.org/projects/vanco…

Tickled to be considered a #kelp champion! And to help students find love in the #seaweed. …note to self: add swipe-right feature to the #SeaweedSorter 🥰

#BullKelp gametophytes under the microscope and micro PAM from my experiment for #KelpRescue, kindly hosted by Patrick Martone. 🙂🔬

Download the updated #SeaweedSorter for your devices! Updated names, 2 new sorting questions, and 2 more species: the extra spindly #Neorhodomela aculeata (shown here) and the high tidepool N. oregona. 117 species and counting… UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social) UBC Botany

Our Codium #seaweed is reproductive!! 😍🎉