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

how the 'sausage is made': with the increasing number of servers running in our lab (symportal.org, micportal.org, coralfuture.org, etc) comes the need to provide power backup to maximize uptime operation ..

UPDATE: ICRS-SECC Writing Workshops now open to non-ICRS members to apply! ICRS members will be prioritized for these workshops, but any remaining spaces can be filled with non-members. Limited spots available! APPLICATIONS CLOSE AUGUST 8 @ 11:59pm UTC shorturl.at/n8rR1

Available now: genomes of the Caribbean corals Colpophyllia natans, Dendrogyra cylindrus, and Siderastrea siderea, assembled and annotated by Nick Locatelli. S. siderea has one of the largest genomes of any scleractinian coral (822Mb) .. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New work, happy to be part of this effort: massive bleaching study from Malaysia, a largely understudied region. More in the works! 👇Universität Konstanz loads of good insight, worthwhile to read the whole thing ;)

Check out our latest paper on a novel, rapid phenotyping device that can be used across a range of different marine/aquatic taxa. nature.com/articles/s4159…

new work: "Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights" -> using a human rights framework to hasten protection of coral reefs & highlighting the strong ties to human well-being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… .. Kudos to Emma Camp & co-authors! Universität Konstanz

interview on our article "Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights" explaining our motivation & changes this could instigate, nice background & perspective I think! campus.uni-konstanz.de/wissenschaft/d… (German only atm) Universität Konstanz

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…

nature.com/articles/s4157… Jack A Gilbert (he/him/his) Raquel Peixoto Christian R Voolstra @Thuls_M Jay T Lennon @PhilHugenholtz Joana Falcao Salles

out now: Microbial solutions against climate catastrophe” => A call to action across 15 journals to counter climate change, harnessing microbiology. ... Too many times we heard it can’t be done, and yet here we are! Universität Konstanz kudos to Raquel Peixoto et al nature.com/articles/s4146…

The ISME Climate Change Committee, AAM, Applied Microbiology International, ASM, FEMS and International Coral Reef Society are joining forces to encourage industry and policy-makers to make use of microbes to mitigate and adapt to climate change. isme-microbes.org/harnessing-mic… #microbes #climatechange

.Christian R Voolstra explores a #PLOSBiology study showing how #coral larvae avoid bleaching by increasing nitrogen sequestration to maintain glucose translocation from their algal symbionts. Primer: plos.io/3ZgbQLv @Dr_Cnidariana @HolliePutnam Paper: plos.io/4foh6lL

the plot thickens;: further to doi.org/10.1371/journa… (primer: doi.org/10.1371/journa…), below is another study with similar findings (nutrient cycling at the heart of coral-algal symbiosis), showing how coral larvae counter heat stress (and OA). congratulations!

Tara Polar Station crowdfunding (raise remaining 300k of 21 mio): in any aspect this project is exceptional, paradigm-shifting, groundbreaking .. your chance to contribute kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/ta… Fondation Tara Océan Tara Oceans Scientific

the grass is greener / the sky is bluer on the other side; find me or i find you reefgenomics.bsky.social