The Great Lakes are home to 20% of Earth's surface freshwater. On Wednesday, September 16, at 4:00pm CT, join Tony Briscoe of ProPublica Illinois in a Webinar for Educators explaining how he investigated the effects of climate change in this vital region. bit.ly/2ErlBQ3

We’re looking to help get word out that the DFI at UChicago has an open faculty position broadly focused on the human microbiome. I’m biased but think the resources and people/environment here can’t be beat! Please share or apply… academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/52273

I'm actively recruiting a post-doc to join us at Univ of Tennessee to study host-phage entanglement and its influence on competitiveness in marine niches. Please help spread the word and reach out to me with questions ([email protected])!

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in microbiology or microbial ecology, please come to our virtual meeting on Tuesday 3pm CST to see if The University of Chicago is the right place for you. Registration: tinyurl.com/COM-open-house… Thank you for spreading the word!

I agree 100% with this thread. My group does better science when diverse perspectives are included. I along with many others in our department will continue to fight for diversity, equity and inclusion for all.

📢🚨Registration Announcement 🚨📢 Registration for the upcoming EDIG conference is now live! To help launch the registration, some of our committee wanted to share what they think when they think of EDIG 🌍 You can register via Eventbrite at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equality… (1/5)

NEW Virtual Issue: "Diverse Voices in Aquatic Sciences" from #ASLO_Bulletin explores issues of #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion in #aquaticscience. Don't miss this special #freeaccess collection. More hot-off-the-press articles will be added soon! bit.ly/ASLODEIVI

Want to learn more about micro@UChicago? Info session tomorrow! tinyurl.com/COM-open-house…

nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/…

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything more calming or mesmerizing as the waves left in the wake of the RV Blue Heron as we traversed the open waters of Lake Superior in June 2019.

The Great Lakes, nitrifiers, streamlined genomes, ecotypes. Oh, and proteorhodopsin. w/Justin Podowski, Sara Paver Ryan Newton biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Benthic invaders control the phosphorus cycle in the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem pnas.org/content/118/6/…

Delighted to present "Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the Bronx enables clinical and epidemiological inference”, a collab between Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official Montefiore Health System, our lab, the awesome Kartik Chandran crew, starring @MaxFels Saad Khan Ryan Forster, PhD medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Happy #GreatLakesDay 🌅🌎! Thanks to the scientists, researchers, engineers and marine techs who monitor #GreatLakes water quality. #LakeGuardian

I will be looking for a technician, a postdoc and a grad student to conduct research with marine and freshwater phytoplankton, and other microbes on a wide range of topics. Watch this space for ads!

Great new graduate student funding opportunities in ecology and evolution UChicagoGRAD. Check us out and apply by 1 Dec @sacnas ABRCMS DiversifyEEB RT

Just discovered the incredible Project Rebound at Cal State Fullerton. Sadly learned of it bc of the loss of a Project Rebound star, Mike Kruger, whose family I know. Please consider supporting in honor of Mike: Fullerton.edu/rebound

anyone have experience with 16S amplicons on NovaSeq?

Exciting new work from Amy Zimmerman & Jake Waldbauer! See where the N goes after microbes take it up… nature.com/articles/s4156…