A cool video showing the fire worm Chloeia (or something similar) moving and eating! #Wormwednesday!

A 2-kb Mycovirus Converts a Pathogenic Fungus into a Beneficial Endophyte for Brassica Protection and Yield Enhancement cell.com/molecular-plan…

Will Savage taught me to play baseball when we were kids. He was a gifted lad and grew into a master—recruited to play for Detroit Tiger’s minor league teams for 2 years. But even so close to the top, many are forgotten. Check out his great piece: nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Phaeocystis, you mysterious beast. In a single culture, colonies reproduce by swarming AND by budding. I hope to someday understand what triggers these different reproductive methods. Till then, I'll keep marveling at them under the microscope :) #protists #algae

Main highlights of our Nature Communications paper: 'Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi ...' rdcu.be/b8osH 1) The ancestors of ectomycorrhizal fungi are genetically and ecologically diverse, making this a superb example of convergent evolution.

New study published in Ecological Applications, in which we developed a decision support tool for postfire conifer restoration. Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…

New paper out today in Science Advances! advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/12/e… We measured state-dependent risk-taking in elephant seals throughout their 7-month migrations and found that skinny seals sacrifice safety for sustenance. Here is an animation I made to tell the story. #gradschool

Very excited to talk about microbiomes and some of our recent work on dispersal in the phyllosphere at the upcoming Science at Cal event. Register in advance if you'd like to check it out!

Our paper on belowground effects on the phyllosphere microbiome is now out in New Phytologist! We found that water limitation & disrupting mycorrhizal colonization had extremely similar effects on aboveground communities – down to individual indicator species. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

hi all - i'm proud to announce our new manuscript on Trichodesmium pangenomes and CRISPR immunity is now out on bioRxiv :) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Noelle A. Held Yiming Zhao @perilousUnknown Asa Conover Mak Saito

#Internship opportunity (partially funded) for a student interested in studying marine connectivity in Okinawa, Japan. Join our lab and our cross-disciplinary team led by Satoshi Mitarai at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Details and how to apply: docs.google.com/document/d/1rA…

Excited to share two pubs from my PhD this week, one on historical contingency in ecology and the other on historical contingency in evolution, and some thoughts on what these two subfields can learn from each other. 🧵(1/10)

‼️ I'm starting a lab at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science USF College of Marine Science in St. Pete next Summer! We will study microbial interactions in a changing ocean with multi 'omics and microscopy. Opportunities for MS and PhD students, DM! 🦠🧪🔬🌊❤️ #sciencedreams

im really happy this manuscript is finally out! if you’re curious about trichodesmium genomics and oceanic N2 fixation, then this could be for you! nature.com/articles/s4370…

Our paper on priority effects and within-host microbial evolution is out today in NatureEcoEvo!! 🥳🥳🥳 nature.com/articles/s4155…

new op-ed for Truthdig

Thank you Max Planck Society for this opportunity to start my first research group!! I am recruiting at the MSc, PhD, and student assistant levels. More info on how to join us coming very soon ☺️🦠

Happy #FieldworkFriday 🎉🥾NMDC Champion Asa Conover (@planetazor) is using the digestive microbiome of the carnivorous California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica) to learn how we can shape microbiome composition and function!