Check out our recent preprint about our Coral Probiotics Discovery Platform! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest paper on how the coral microbiome affects resistance to different Vibrio coralliilyticus strains, while also suggesting some regulatory proteins are for defense vs offense. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!

An Asgard Archaeon (Lokiarchaeum ossiferum) growing and retracting its arms

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

The UNCW Department of Biology & Marine Biology is hiring a TT Invertebrate Biologist position! Come work with us! jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37895

they look so ... orange cream mound like! Phlyctenactis www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Best. Name. Ever. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

When the lab surprises you for Halloween dressed as...you. 😂

😢 theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...

It's been 10 years, but we're finally getting back into phages. Glorious enrichment assays from mud samples.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

If you want to make a difference in the marine world 🌊🪸🐟... We are looking for a programme assistant (part time) based in in Berlin #OceanOptimism. ogy.de/6jtx

The Whitney lab at U FL is an interdisciplinary powerhouse of a scientific community. They're looking for a new faculty colleague in a VERY broad search in Marine Bioscience--link below. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW LIVE! 16th International Coral Reef Symposium Submit an abstract here: www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs... #coralreefs #symposium #newzealand #icrs #coralresearch #networking #coral #internationalcoralreefsociety #marinescience #marinebiology

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year! Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

A plasmid golden ratio? 🧬 Plasmid copy number ≈ 2.5% of chromosome size—consistent across bacterial species! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @jerorb.bsky.social 🧪 #microbesky

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Phage folks, does anyone have suggestions for cheaper alternatives for low melt agarose for phage plaque assays? Much appreciated!

Bleaching and tissue loss coral diseases get all the attention, but there's also growth anomalies. We don't know for sure what causes them. However, our lab is going to be looking at these Acropora growth anomalies (the growths in the middle of the branches) under TEM!

A 9-armmed sea star (Luidia senegalensis) from Florida. Don't worry, "Stuart" is alive and well. We just needed some baseline samples from healthy specimens 🤩

Corals, tunicates, and sea stars oh my! 🧪🔬🧫🌊 UNCW Ph.D. students Erin Papke, Grace Kennedy, and Kiah Gongaware were down at the Smithsonian Marine Station (some for a month!) working on various projects ranging from nitrogen cycling in corals, identifying new sea squirts, and sea star microbiomes!

"Flesh-eating bacteria [vibriosis] cases surge in Southeast, North Carolina reports 59 infections – WSOC TV" share.google/8NgvXmUokUnt...

We don't get color photos and articles in Newsweek very often; we sure appreciate this good science coverage. www.newsweek.com/starfish-sea...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats. go.nature.com/46I4kx2 🌊 🧪

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

The mechanisms underlying seastar wasting disease #SSWD remain elusive, & this new preprint helps to fill this knowledge gap using data from a mosaic of infected & uninfected sunflower stars across Southeast Alaska to evaluate immune & microbial disruption. #Pycnopodia #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊🧪🌎

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UNC System joins Florida, Texas to form new accreditor | Raleigh News & Observer share.google/y6GgacZSpzgf...

Being able to get some good mandu-guk makes the long travel to the West Coast worth it...and a great conference. But, yeah know, food is important.

#ASMicrobe 2025 just ended, but session proposals are opening up on June 24th for 2026 in D.C.! Help shape next year's meeting by proposing the science you want to see!

#broaderimpacts. Great afternoon working with UNCW MarineQuest high school students on antibiotic discovery from coral microbiomes @uncw-cms.bsky.social . Part of our most excellent collaboration with Blake Ushijima’ s group @vibriosoup.bsky.social .

The neurotic guy in the Hawaiian shirt & clipboard running around #ASMicrobe is stepping down. After ~5 years on the #AES track planning committee, w/ last few as Track lead, it's time for a break. Thanks to tireless work from the committee members and admin that put on this meeting every year!

That's a wrap for #ASMicrobe 2025! Thank you to all the speakers as well as the movers and shakers that make this conference happen! #AES will see you next year with a new look and a new name!

For our last #AES Session, join us at 8:15 AM in 403B for AES-IDS-501 Microbiology of Mineral and Energy Resource Recovery. #ASMicrobe

Nothing is forever! Especially when it comes to the power of microbes! Come and learn more about this #AES session at 1:45 PM in 403B for AES-IDS-406 Discovery of "forever chemical"-degrading microorganisms. Are microbes our only hope for cleaning up our messes? Find out here! #ASMicrobe

Last but not least, our final #AES Track Talk is today at 12:45! Come down to our Tack Hub for Dr. Skylar Carlson and her talk AES-TT-405 Algae Surface Associated Microbes & the language of location! Come learn about environmental microbes and their chemical signals! #ASMicrobe

#AES is honored to host Dr. Martin Wiedmann for our Sunday Meet The Expert session at 11:45 PM in Lounge & Learn 1. Dr. Wiedmann is the recipient of the 2025 ASM Award for Environmental Research! Join us for his talk on approaches to mitigating food-borne outbreaks. #ASMicrobe

Join #AES at 11:45 AM in our Track Hub for our last rapid fire session AES-RF-404 Microbial Pioneers: Colonizing Earth's Unique Habitats! Learn about microbes living in diverse environments. From freshwater streams to permafrost, microbes are everywhere! #ASMicrobe

AI can be a useful tool for tracking diseases and wastewater management! Join #AES at out track hub Sunday at 10:45 AM for AES-TT-402 AI and Wastewater: Technologies, Community Disease Monitoring, and Future outlook by Dr. Stephanie Bachas-Daunert. #ASMicrobe

And it's-a me, Paul | 8:15-9 AM | Room 403B "Anaerobic Alchemy: Innovative Design of Experiments for Culturing Elusive Anaerobes" Novel approaches to culturing unculturable taxa - including our first-ever isolation of a new phylum! 🦠 #Microbiology #Research #Archaea #Anaerobes #DormantMicrobes