Out Now! Giant viruses rewire control of cellular protein synthesis #MicroSky

New publication out @natcomms.nature.com! We identify novel viruses that actively infect highly productive chemoautotrophs, and reveal key trophic interactions and virus-host dynamics that impact microbial carbon cycling in aphotic environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A good read on a large virus... Extensive array of endogenous giant viral elements in a polar alga shows dynamic transcriptional response to abiotic stress: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

I am excited to share our new preprint on how iron limitation leads to cascading impacts on diatom carbon exudation and subsequent uptake and processing by heterotrophic bacteria. 🌊🦠

Bermuda Atlantic Time Series surface waters contain thousands of viral populations with diel rhythms, forming “archetypes” that vary in abundance patterns, predicted hosts, taxonomy, and gene functions @sullivan-lab.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Press on our recent manuscript @us.theconversation.com @natcomms.nature.com feat. @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social iconic pic of the Sargasso 🌊

Koonin's lab in NIH is looking for postdocs. If you know someone who is interested, please spread the word. The details about the position are below: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-ecb...

Congratulations to Debbie Lindell for receiving the 2026 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from @aslo.org www.aslo.org/aslo-honors-...

Science in action... a research cruise to explore marine viruses & their microbial hosts made possible by NSF support and held together by the talents of @negilbert.bsky.social (now at Syracuse U) and Daniel Muratore (now at SFI), @camelia-s-gochev.bsky.social (of Technion) & many more...

New with @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social, exploring how viral-mediated infection and lysis can fuel the marine food web: theconversation.com/viruses-aren...

Such a great team that included @sullivan-lab.bsky.social , @ab-knox.bsky.social, @jdebruyn.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and so many amazing staff and students. And yes - still more to come from this project. artsci.utk.edu/ut-research-...

Our paper on how viral lysis may influence system biogeochemistry in the Sargasso Sea subsurface oxygen max (SOM) is finally published! Thanks to all coauthors and especially @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to work on this project integrating field work and modeling

congrats @atruch.bsky.social !! Can’t wait to read it

Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!! Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism! doi.org/10.1101/2025... #MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio

Congrats @zepernickbn.bsky.social @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social ! 🦠

Bacterial Volatile Organic Compound Specialists in the Phycosphere academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

#bloomscrolling paris blooms 🌸

Having a great time visiting Ghent, Belgium and attending #MLD8 to present my postdoc work on deciphering algal-bacterial interactions under iron limitation using #exometabolomics and #nanoSIP