🚨Last week to submit your #ICRS2026 abstract! Consider submitting to session 124: 🪸Reefs through time⌛ Leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems.

Final reminder to consider submitting an abstract to join our thematic session on "Reefs through time" at the @icrs.bsky.social meeting next July. The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details. Hope to see you there!

🌊Anyone who has taught a course on Marine Ecology & Conservation (or alike) who is willing to share their material? 🪸🪼🐟🦭🐠🦈🦀🐙🐬🐳🐡🦞🦦🐋🐚

Our lab website is up! gonzalezpech-lab.com

Pretty excited to share our new preprint! Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Working on the past of #corals or #reefs? 🪸 Join our #ICRS2026 session! 🧑🏻‍🏫

Science friends and collaborators!! This week I will be giving my tenure review seminar! It will be available via zoom to accommodate some folks travel schedules. So, if you’d like to hear more about what the labs been up to over the past five years please reach out and I will give you the link

🎙️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! I am seeking a scientist to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on research in the molecular biology of insect endosymbionts. Come join us in the tips of the Appalachian mountains for meaningful challenges in symbiosis science. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

Our department is looking for an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology. Come join us! jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/54232

Excited to share that I’ll be joining @uicbios.bsky.social as an Asst. Prof. in Jan 2026! My lab will explore the epi/genetic principles of host–microbe interactions, symbiosis, and vector biology. We’ll be hiring postdocs and techs—details and lab website coming soon! bios.uic.edu/news-stories...

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

🚨 New paper out @microbiologysociety.org! #Genome 🧬 characterization of #CCA -associated bacteria 🦠, with antimicrobial activity against antibiotic 💊-resistant pathogens! #AMR doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor! Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!

We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...

Check out our dispatch on apicomplexans that infect corals! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe? @currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs

🌍 Conservation biology needs a microbial upgrade! This review, from @raulgoch.bsky.social & others, highlights how microbiome research can enhance conservation genomics & improve biodiversity management in a changing world. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Microbiome #Conservation #Genomics

Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.

🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...

Our group project is out! This was a fun exchange among diverse researchers. #STOTEN Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions authors.elsevier.com/a/1kjAVB8cd4... @raulgoch.bsky.social @rmcminds.bsky.social @junhee-jung.bsky.social

This is just devastating. My thoughts are with all our NOAA colleagues and in other federal agencies. No way to anticipate the lag that all of this will bring to the progression of science both here and globally…😮‍💨

So grateful for being part of this amazing community and for being featured in this video! ☺️

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

📢 Hey! We're hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to accelerate discoveries on the molecular biology of the symbiosis between #Drosophila and #Wolbachia. Know anyone who loves molecular studies of bugs, bacteria, and/or bacteriophages? psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...

🚨New Preprint🚨: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🧪

🚨Proud to share this @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on genomes of bacteria 🦠 extracted from crustose coralline algae and with antimicrobial potential! 💊 A great example of prime undergraduate research led y the brilliant student @diegolera.bsky.social @MedinaLab! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨 If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊

New pre-print from the lab. Whole genomes of bacteria isolated from crustose coralline algae. Beautiful collaboration between Diego-Lara, a stellar undegrad and postdoc @raulgoch.bsky.social 🪸🧪🧬🌊https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625565v1

We are thrilled to announced the publication of chromosome level genome assemblies and genetic maps for the Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Out today, open access: Chromosome-level genome assemblies and genetic maps reveal heterochiasmy and macrosynteny in endangered Atlantic Acropora doi.org/10.1186/s128... From @ibaums.bsky.social Lab, led by Nicolas Locatelli, Sheila Kitchen, and Kate Stankiewicz

Here is a coral reef science starter pack! go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H

Happy to have made the move!🦋