A double helix in front of @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Thanks for the invite! See you tomorrow.

Our new preprint led by Emelia J. Chamberlain: From microbial diversity to function: evaluating dimensionality reduction methods #MOSAiC #Arctic #Ocean #microbiomes @norwichmicro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new methods paper led by AWI colleagues with the support of #OmicronCr. CRISPR-Cas for single-cell diatom microbiome research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Seen today on our campus @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

New issue of Journal of Phycology is out with our paper highlighted on the cover. 😀 Congrats to all authors and especially Longji Deng 👏 @ueaenv.bsky.social First genetic transformation system in a heterotrophic #diatom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15298817...

Fully funded #PhD Studentship in my lab! Get in touch 😀 The role of light-driven proton pumps in sustaining oceanic primary production #microbial #rhodopsins #diatom #ocean @ueaenv.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats all! Exciting times ahead! Good luck everyone! 😊👍👏

Congrats everyone including @paulgmock.bsky.social Good luck at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social You are in good hands www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...

New Species Spotlight 👇 Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo zooms in and out on cyanobacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eHZSN

Sequencing methods 🧬 have come a long way from census counts 🔢 to assembling genomes and understanding the functions 🧪 of bacteria and viruses. New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, Tanja Woyke with @jeffinerca.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Worth reading: A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how #diatoms thrive in dynamic light. From Ellen Yeh's group www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool preprint: Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like #rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant #virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

UK introduces landmark legislation to protect world’s ocean www.gov.uk/government/n...

Survey of 8 countries including Spain and the US finds 82% of people support setting aside 30% land + sea for nature. All over the world, people WANT rewilding. Time our politicians started turning that clear wish into actual policy. Let's bring nature back!!! share.google/8lsJ5PfS2nau...

Last few days for booking your online tickets! Join leading coccolithophore scientists online at Advances in Coccolithophore Research 2025, 9-11 September. Full schedule including speakers and talks available - buff.ly/oaMjqZB ➡️ Book your ticket by Friday 5 September.

Our latest methods article led by Longji Deng. It enables to reverse engineer #photosynthesis in a eukaryotic heterotroph containing a "chloroplast": The #diatom Nitzschia putrida @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new paper just out in BMC Biology led by Johanna Winder: Environmental adaptations in #metagenomes revealed by deep learning. Artificial neural networks were used to classify ice-binding / substrate-binding proteins (DUF3494). bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Applecross Bay

Over the Scottish Highlands

Common sea urchin > 10cm in diameter.

Bealach na Bà pass - Scotland

Coral beach covered with maerl. Toscaig - Scotland

Worth reading: #Arctic Ocean virus communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Has ‘excellence’ funding brought a ‘German Harvard’ any closer? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/has-ex...

For ocean lovers (in German) www.zeit.de/2025/31/meer...

Proud dad moment: Paul with a BSc (Hons) Biology from @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Tiny creatures gorge, get fat, and help fight global warming www.bbc.com/news/article...

Worth reading: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The coral garden of #Norfolk #UK

Happy to join GEOMARs Scientific Advisory Board on a four-year term commencing Jan. 2026. @geomarkiel.bsky.social

We detected the toxin leadbeaterin‑1 and found that nutrient stress correlates with the expression of polyketide synthase genes and mixotrophy pathways. Suggests? These blooms are more resilient and deadly under nutrient depletion.

Our own @antoniaotte1.bsky.social Well done and many congratulations 🙌 🎉😊👌 @ueaenv.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global #ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats 🎉 all!

Our new perspective paper just out @natecoevo.nature.com Led by Kevin J. Flynn and based on a community effort. More realistic #plankton simulation models will improve projections of #ocean #ecosystem responses to global change. @ueaenv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mark your calendar: the next molecular life of #diatoms meeting will be in Wuhan 🇨🇳 July 4-8 in 2027 #MLD9

Last keynote at #ICOP2025 by Jana Milucka @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

New impact factor of the Journal of Phycology is 3.4. Submit your high-quality manuscripts.

A new tool for research-based planning: valuing-voices.ac.uk/our-toolkit/

Typical Qingdao food! BBQ and much more.

Choosing beers for dinner in Qingdao.

Parv’s seminar at OUC on #ocean #biogeochemistry. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Narrow trails through the Laoshan mountains near Qingdao.

Happy to be back at the Ocean University of China #Qingdao Say hello if you are around.

Great article. Effective communication is important as always in science. #PhD www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/too-... via @timeshighered

Great evening scuba diving with Max. 1st of May is early for Norfolk wreck /shore diving. Warm weather made it possible. Water temp. 13C and vis was ca. 2m.

WTH #Norwich