Marine Sciences in Singapore to launch new Centre of Excellence! SCELSE PIs have been involved in the previous marine sciences programs MSRDP and MCCS where they collaborate across universities and centres. @beccase.bsky.social Read Straits Times: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

My day is made. Someone threw a hot dog into my lecture. Every year I talk about microbes that survive on dissolved organic matter and how it just diffuses to them and how that would be like me living off of the hot dogs that float into my room. It took 10 years but one finally did!!! 🤣

"A/Prof Rebecca Case from SBS, NTU said she hopes that the centre of excellence will encompass the important role that microbes play in the ecosystem. ... We have the highest diversity per area in the world; we have monsoons rather than seasons, and our equatorial location uniquely places us"

Looking forward to hosting Prof Lisa Stein for a wetlands seminar this Thursday morning

Public service announcement: Please stop with all the adaptationism. Issue 1: some beneficial traits arise through forces other than natural selection (i.e. they aren't results of adaptation). Issue 2: many seemingly beneficial traits are not beneficial at all (i.e., they don't increase fitness).

and from the Ministry of National Development: www.mnd.gov.sg/newsroom/par...

Exciting news announced by MOS Alvin Tan in Singapore's Parliament today! $60 million for Centre of Excellence in Marine Sciences mothership.sg/2026/03/new-...

Microbes in action! Students at Science Discovery Camp 2025 explored microbial science at SCELSE, toured labs, and played Lockdown!, a pandemic-themed card game. Kudos to NTU College of Science! 📍18–20 Jun 2025 | NTU 🔗 blogs.ntu.edu.sg/science/2025/07/28/science-discovery-camp-2025/

Thank you Prof @Doralyn Dalisay for the SCELSE Seminar on “Natural Product Discovery from Philippine Biodiversity”. Her team advances discoveries from lab to market—antibiotics, therapeutics & more—showing innovation can thrive anywhere.

Our new article on circularised economy is out! Applied research is new for me, but the chance to collaborate with SCELSE's water engineers caught my interest. How little salt do they need to make omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids? A lot less than I thought! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs 🌊

Don't miss out on the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25–28 Nov. Reg & abstracts open: tinyurl.com/wpmbs2025 Early-bird regos now extended to 14 Oct, so you can still secure discounted registration rates! @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social UQ Centre for Marine Science

Bacteria enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants Rhizosphere microbiome is remodeled under sulfur (S) deficiency with competition among bacteria increasing their release of glutathione, which benefits the plant at expense of bacterial fitness www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap. Read more: isme-microbes.org/microbes-wit... #MicrobialEcology #ClimateAction

The role of the microbiome in the successful transplantation of seagrass meadows - @universitedeliege.bsky.social www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_135245...

Louisiana reports five deaths from flesh-eating bacterium in coastal waters - Ramon Antonio VARGAS @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Missed SCELSE Open House 2025? Catch the highlights in this 2-min video below. And look out for next year's Open House in Aug 2026! #SCELSE #SCELSEImpact #OpenHouse2025 #Microbiome #Biofilm

Nice summary from Songcan & Marc 🙏 on our discovery of a new microbial energy metabolism 🦠 🧫 ⚡ 🔌 Microbial Iron oxide respiration coupled to Sulfide Oxidation (MISO) @nature.com Research Briefing 😍 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📰 Original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #microbiomesky

The Bacterial Symbiont Phaeobacter inhibens Shapes the Life History of Its Algal Host Emiliania huxleyi - @FrontMarineSci https://ift.tt/2LCV412

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