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Our @Microbiome paper on sponge viruses and their auxiliary metabolic genes is finally out: rdcu.be/b71mv Check out the video abstract produced by Research Square for quick summary of our main findings.

exciting new work in PNASNews pnas.org/content/118/5/… in a nutshell 'corals bleach before they pale': corals starve before zoox r gone cos sugars come no more, putting long-held beliefs upside down. Shouts to Nils R who saw it through from the start of his PhD @unikonstanz

We are very pleased to announce Prof Nicole Webster as the new Chief Scientist of the Australian Antarctic Division, starting in May. Prof Webster is a marine microbial ecologist, currently Snr Research Scientist at AIMS, and Dep Director of the Aust Centre for Ecogenomics at UQ.

Congrats to Meggie Hudspith on the publication of her first PhD chapter in Microbiome! Sponge symbionts recycle host waste products and retain limiting nutrients. Check out the video abstract. #sponge #symbiosis @spongeloop nanoSIMS@UWA microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'm beyond excited to announce that our article with MetaorganismResearch and @BEDutilh is now online The ISME Journal! Be prepared for amazing #phage #eukaryote #microbiome interplay in #sponges and a new #CLEM imaging approach to spot #viruses in animals. Trailer⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4139…

If you are enthusiastic about developing and implementing ideas and activities that target and grow the early career microbial ecologists community, join the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee. Send your application before May 16th. isme-microbes.org/call-new-membe…

Exciting opportunity for a postdoc to join our team @ace_uq, identifying microbial inducers of coral settlement within the #greatbarrierreef Reef Restoration & Adaptation Program! Collaboration with Australian Institute of Marine Science #marinemicrobialecology #metagenomics search.careers.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/513…

Calling #environmemtal #science or #management students interested in #rehabilitation research. Come and do a placement with me at Qld Department of Environment and Science looking at rehab of #mining voids des.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/…

Great overview by AIMS@JCU PhD student Emma Marrangon on microbiome‑mediated mechanisms contributing to environmental tolerance of reef invertebrates rdcu.be/ckW6B

New job! 👉Consider yourself highly skilled in #molecularbiology, #microbiology, #biochemistry or #microscopy? We’re looking for an experimental & laboratory technician to research invertebrate species within tropical #ecosystems. aims.gov.au/Experimental-a…

#ASLO2021 Session SS40 host-microbiome interactions coming up! Interested in marine microbiology and symbiosis? Join my talk on the marine #sponge #microbiome and #symbiont transmission. Saturday 26th of June, 12pm UTC.

Check out our newest paper on partitioning DOM uptake in #sponges! In sponges with few microbial symbionts, host cells drive DOM uptake, while microbes mop up waste products SpongeLoop @JoelleSprong Laura Rix x.com/MEPS_IR/status…

Aussie crew representing at #ISME18! ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology

Interested in #symbiont transmission in #sponges? Here a new mode of vertical #transmission is described in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta. Pam Engelberts NWebster_Micro @StevenJRobbins Laura Rix rdcu.be/cWpoM

Great opportunity for an exciting, fun, and challenging #PhD project in #genomics #bioinformatics of heat-evolved #dinoflagellate #microalgae #coral #symbiont based at Macquarie University Sydney with Patrick Buerger, @spectacularia BioSciences UniMelb and me @ace_uq UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Please RT

Exciting postdoc opportunity in Switzerland in Anders Meibom's Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry: coral microbiology, bac genetics, imaging EPFL EPFL-ENAC available ASAP, applications due by the end of April. Please RT widely! #coralreefs #marinemicrobiology #symbiosis

PhD student opportunity in symbiotic nutrient cycling in Cnidaria 🪸🔬in Anders Meibom’s Lab for Biological Geochemistry at EPFL EPFL-ENAC co-supervised by me, available ASAP, applications due by the end of May. Please RT widely! #coral reefs #symbiosis #NanoSIMS

🦠🌍microplanet.at Interested in working with us in Austria on how 'Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health'? >30 PostDoc & >16 PhD positions available in our Cluster of Excellence. Wide range of topics at the interface of environmental & medical microbiome sciences FWF

Our work on how genome duplication shaped evolution of a coral symbiont is out in Science Advances! A product of 6yrs of my PhD & postdoc w/ Cheong Xin (CX) Chan, I've never been prouder of a piece of work. Great collab w/ UTS C3 FIU Rutgers SEBS Australian Institute of Marine Science @ace_uq shorturl.at/6kjTN