I am happy to announce the launch of my lab's website: www.enverg.ca After more than 5 years, I finally got the time to put something together. Its basic, but hopefully will grow over the upcoming months and years.

(1/9) Latest preprint from our lab at @uwaterloo.ca conceived predominantly by our very talented #PhD #student Isaac Meza-Padilla: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#algae matters. This is why: uwaterloo.ca/news/science...

Latest work from my lab at @uwaterloo.ca by PhD student Isaac Meza-Padilla on using #Alphafold for #proteome modelling in #cyanophages: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

Join the creators of @alltooclearfilm.bsky.social for a historic real-time dive to Superior Shoal, a towering underwater mountain in the heart of Lake Superior. Explore the Freshwater Everest on Sunday, September 14 at 3 PM ET. Learn more: inspiredplanet.ca/live

It was an honour meeting and talking to, and snorkeling with the pioneer marine biologist, oceanographer, aquanaut and National Geographic explorer Sylvia Earle at the @psaalgae.bsky.social meeting in #PuertoRico. An incredible ambassador for #Science and the #Ocean. A truly inspiring individual.

Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.

Fantastic efforts from my @uwaterloo.ca graduate students at this year's Canadian Society for Microbiology meeting in #Montreal. What a great event and an amazing city!

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Great to be on the #water again today for some #microbial sampling in lake #belwood. What a way to start the #summer.

Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to all our co-authors on publishing this great work, led by our own @uwaterloo.ca gradate student Delaney Nash. rdcu.be/emvgP

When viruses infect toxic algal blooms, they can trigger the release of high levels of harmful microcystin-LR, leaving clear water that may still pose risks to health and ecosystems. doi.org/g9h7s9

Many data sets held by NOAA are being "retired" in may, including datasets relevant to ocean sciences and climate. If you have need for these data, or are an archivist, it would be good to download this now. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

What happens when you do a deep-dive on a classic technique that returns strange results? You might find the technique does not work - at least in your system. 🤔 Kudos to Robbie, Lena et al. On mitomycin-c for inducing lysogens in a harmful cyanobacterial bloom. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Had the privilege of teaching #marine #biology this year @uwaterloo.ca, the same subject I studied as a BSc student 2 decades ago @plymuni.bsky.social During the course I had wonderful recollections of my own #professors I had at the time and the diversity of subjects they passionately covered...