It finally feels real - I’m heading to Antarctica! Today we visited the clothing distribution center to try on/pick up our extreme cold weather gear and received negative Covid tests all around! Two more tests tomorrow!!!

Our first pub on Acropora palmata is out in The ISME Journal! Led by the brilliant Holland Elder with help from Dr. Wyatt Million Cory Krediet Erinn Muller & Erich Bartels - we show that Durusdinium dominated Apal can maintain that symbiosis TWO YEARS post outplant! rdcu.be/c1rTI

Love coral symbioses & looking for a Post-doc? We seek an experienced scholar to apply for a UVic Aspiration Postdoctoral Fellowship (due Jan. 15, 2023) to work on coral biodiversity under global change as part of our new BIOSCAN collaboration. Pls RT uvic.ca/research-innov…

Tomorrow! Hear the great Justine Charon talk about the protist virosphere 🤩

We are now accepting applications for our #SciencePolicy Fellowship! Gain first-hand #policy experience on the staff of federal, state, local, or non-governmental agencies in the #GulfOfMexico region. Learn more and apply: ow.ly/z2Z250M2AoO

Great review by Richard Puxty and Andrew millard Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy Holidays from our lab to yours!

Science ran a big experiment on itself for the last ~60 years. It didn't work out. experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and…

USPS just dropped forever stamps for 2023 and one of the themes is microscopic images 🦠

5 undergrads with zero phage experience. 10 weeks later 30+ isolates , 27 phage genomes + TEM images for all, 7 phage with one steps experiments... not to shabby. under expert guidance of Steven Hooton Slawomir Michniewski

Mushroom and lichen dyes, beautiful results from a Mycopigments workshop at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. mycopigments.com

Iterons are short DNA sequences important for circular single-stranded DNA viral replication. In #MRAJournal, researchers present CRUcivirus Iteron SEarch (CRUISE), a computational tool for accurately identifying iteron candidates in viral genomes. asm.social/XU

Congrats to #wundergrad Paige Boleman on graduating from USF St. Petersburg - so glad Chelsea Bonnain Chase recognized she’d be a perfect fit for our lab!! Check out the great #phage cap she bedazzled and be on the lookout for a paper from her soon!

At Arcadia Science we are studying the wonderful world of phage nucleic acid chemistries! 🧬✨ Here, we are releasing our workflow for chemical analysis of phage genomes 🔍 Check it out! And comment if you have feedback or questions 😎 research.arcadiascience.com/pub/method-pha…

Great fun at the X-mas party yesterday and our DNA-gel team costume won the prize! All credits to Laura Camus for the idea!

Thanks to Dr. Brad Rosenheim 's encouragement, I've created an account at @[email protected] - have no clue what I'm doing over there, but please find me if you're there! Hoping to capture the community I've come to love here...

From our lab to yours, happy holidays! ⁦⁦The Van Tyne Lab⁩ ID Pitt Stop⁩ ⁦CEBaM⁩

1) #USF CMS PhD student Natalie Sawaya presented at the St. Petersburg Innovation District's State of Science talk, an event that highlights research conducted in the city.