Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋

Fecal pellet packaging enhances marine carbon sequestration Fecal pellets produced by marine zooplankton contribute substantially to transporting biologically fixed carbon from the sunlit sea surface into deeper water layers. Their occurrence and composition ....

Led by Clarissa Karthäuser and her RotoBOD, we studied zooplankton fecal pellets, including very small ones; we find that here animals cannot be picky eaters, and that small pellets are efficient exporters with low remineralization 🌊
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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)

Microbially enhanced dissolution of calcite in sinking marine particles www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Seasonal patterns of DOM molecules are linked to microbial functions in the oligotrophic ocean journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs 🌊

Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Happy International Women's Day! 🧪

Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award.

Deadline: 15 May

Read more:
https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/
#award

A phylogenetic classification of diatoms (Bacillariophyta) Diatoms are known for their extraordinary species richness, cornerstone roles in aquatic ecosystems, and immense contributions to the global cycling of carbon, oxygen, and silica. For nearly 2 centur....

Our phylogenetic classification of >400 diatom genera is now published in Journal of Phycology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus).

Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The microbiome of marine mat-forming cyanobacteria - A microcosm of taxonomic novelty and phototrophic diversity academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing:

MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org

#protistsonsky

It was crazy week! Looooved it!

I am!!! wanna meet up after this session?

This 🫶

#protistsonsky top global CaCO3 stock 🫶

In my opinion one of the best slides of #OSM26 ... there might be more in this exciting talk:
"Coccolithophore diversity drives global calcium carbonate stock: New machine-learning estimates"
@nanophyto.bsky.social @fannymonteiro.bsky.social

A mind blowing plenary #OSM26 by Deborah Kelley, University of Washington

#OSM26 is awesomely full of #coccolithophores!
Our last contribution will be on Thursday Poster Session!
Find Borna at his poster on board 0376 @ Hall 4:
➡️Establishing a novel methodology to estimate particulate inorganic carbon of coccolithophores by tracking calcification in vitro!

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World | Quanta Magazine How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Funded through our Science Program, this technique expands the scientific toolkit in ways that can reshape what researchers are able to ask and answer. New research – #ExpansionMicroscopy enlarges cells up to 60x by embedding them in a water-absorbing gel www.quantamagazine.org/expansion-mi...

Endosymbiotic Apicomplexans of Marine Holobionts: Microbial Parasites in a Warming Ocean Synopsis. Apicomplexans are a large group of protists, including several species of major medical importance, most notably those which cause malaria and to

If you're looking for some fun weekend reading, check out our recent review on marine apicomplexans, out now in ICB (@sicbjournals.bsky.social)! #ProtistsOnSky

YES!!!! We should do a meet up 🍻

Look what I found @ Leakey's bookshop! #OSM26

A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story
Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social
We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma
▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC
#ProtistsOnSky

Getting ready for #OSM26

The ISME20 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 22 February. Microbial ecologists worldwide are invited to submit abstracts for oral, short talk, or poster presentations and contribute to the ISME20 programme.
isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr...
#ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

I would prefer if she divides ‼️✌️👯‍♀️😂

A da, tak sam i mislila! Ali ok! Onda se ipak vidimo! Idem i ja na njega! 🎉🎉🎉

I guess love is not cocolitho-FOR everyone!
This is a heart shaped cell of Syracosphaera pulchra.... swimming away!
#protistsonsky #coccolithophores #CoccoChannel

Izgledaju savrseno! Dolazis morti na OSM?

FRED: a universal tool to generate FAIR metadata for omics experiments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Mapping of the viral shunt across widespread coccolithophore blooms using metabolic biomarkers | PNAS The viral shunt is a fundamental ecosystem process which diverts the flux of organic carbon fixed through photosynthesis during algal bloom events ...

🌊Paper announcement! 📣
Viral infections rewire the metabolic makeup of their host and thereby create distinct chemical signatures. Can we use metabolic biomarkers to diagnose infections of algal blooms in the ocean?
Well, take a look at our new article led by Conny Kuhlisch in @pnas.org
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