Our work on the symbiont-containing organelle that supports coral reefs is published today. Also, new genetic tools to study symbiosis in both corals and Aiptasia. Great work by Shumpei Maruyama, Cat Henderson, and the rest of the fantastic team. #SymbioSky www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

#Korallenriffe – die gefährdete Apotheke aus dem Meer: Studie zeigt die bislang unbekannte Vielfalt von #Mikroorganismen in den bedrohten Riffen und ihr Potenzial für neue #Naturstoffe www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... #Bioressourcen #JLUGiessen @marenziegler.bsky.social @nature.com.web.brid.gy

Now at @nature.com ! Our collab with the Sunagawa lab reveals coral reef microbiomes as a new reservoir for natural product discovery 🪸, and we functionally characterized novel RiPP chemistry and enzymology hidden within these reefs. Congrats Daniel, Dora, Alena, and Clara on this amazing work!

CORAL REEF NEWS: An endangered natural pharmacy hidden in coral: Hundreds of reef-dwelling microbes reveal untapped potential Read full story here: phys.org/news/2026-02... #coralreefs #coralscience #pharmaceuticals #naturespharmacy #coral #coralconservation #science #symbiosis #marinebiology

Can engineering help save our coral reefs? Our new paper is out in Ecological Engineering: “Cylindrical, pylon like structures with helix recesses enhance coral larval recruitment” authors.elsevier.com/a/1mYe13IW-w... #CoralReefs #EcologicalEngineering #Restoration #CoralRecruitment

The Thermal Ecology Alliance is approaching 1000 members! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Excited to share our work using #aDNA to reconstruct #Symbiodiniaceae dynamics from #coral cores. Led by José Grillo, @jessireichert.bsky.social, @nessatir.bsky.social part of #TaraPacific expedition & supported by #SPP2299 @climatereefs.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

#Korallen -Skelette als Fenster in die Vergangenheit: Wie Umweltbedingungen die Gemeinschaften von Mikroalgen und Korallen beeinflussen. Publikation von #JLUGiessen -Biologin @marenziegler.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new work in Environmental Microbiology on Symbiodiniaceae diversity between reef habitats and across the coral holobiont. Sediment, seawater, and turf algae-associated communities were distinct while the coral mucus and tissue showed nearly identical ITS2 type profiles. tinyurl.com/mr2hasb5

It’s been a couple of months – we recently published a new paper characterizing bacterial microenvironment on black-tip reef sharks🦈 🦈 🦈 check it out in #CoralReefs: doi.org/10.1007/s003... ... and in case you were wondering: yes, they do have #Endozoicomonas! #SymbioSky @cpjfrance.bsky.social

Proudly sharing the first lead author paper of our PhD student Vanessa Tirpitz. Check it out! (2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kicking the week off with the 3rd Science Expo Marine Biology 💙@jlugiessen.bsky.social #coralreef cover art by @guwa_art on Insta

New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸 👇🏻

Are you interested in joining the CRIOBE as a postdoc fellow for one year to explore the genomic basis of marine microbial ecology, interactions, and/or symbiosis in the context of global change, disease, or probiotic development? Please reach out ASAP to discuss a @MOPGAFrance application!