Tara Oceans Science

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data

Great to see this finally published!

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples

now out in @narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions Abstract. Multi-omics analyses have significantly advanced the understanding of complex marine microbial communities and their interactions. Despite notabl

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs 🌊

#ProtistsOnSky

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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative Meet the choanoflagellates - the microscopic cousins of animals.

I've written a piece about great new article by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, Chantal Combredet & Mylan Ansel. (www.cell.com/cell-reports... )

theconversation.com/how-the-firs...

JGI Portals | Joint Genome Institute Our data platforms are a key resource for the broader scientific community and require constant developments to meet the ever-changing demands of our users.

🚨NOTICE TO OUR USERS🚨

The Data Portal will soon replace the Genome Portal.

Portal users can book a session with our team for technical help, feedback or a guided walk-through of the new Data Portal. 🖥️🧬 🌱🦠🍄🧪

More information: jgi.doe.gov/analyze-data...

Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed

go.nature.com/4925W5G

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

A graphic that reads Happy Ctenophore Day in glowing pink text twice between three rows of different ctenophore species. The top row is lobate ctenophores including Bolinopsis microptera, Leucothea pulchra, Mnemiopsis leidy, and the bloody belly comb jelly Lampocteis. The second row has three different Beroe species. The lowest row has Pleurobrachia bachei, Dryodora glandiformis, red-x, and Euplokamis dunlapae.

Happy Ctenophore Day!
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Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an assembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces ...

Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6)
👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...

The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.

EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale EcoFoldDB provides a curated database of protein structures for ecologically important microbial traits. Its companion annotation pipeline (EcoFoldDB-annotate) employs rapid structural homology searc...

EcoFoldDB: Protein Structure‐Guided Functional Profiling of Ecologically Relevant Microbial Traits at the Metagenome Scale enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incorporating microbiomes into the One Health Joint Plan of Action | mBio One Health is a well-established concept that is now more crucial than ever in tackling modern challenges of zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and climate- and environment-related health th...

Here's a new paper that stresses the importance of microbes not only for human health but for planetary health in general, performing all sorts of essential activities at global scale : Incorporating microbiomes into the One Health Joint Plan of Action | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Pope Leo, in climate push, to open Vatican-run ecological training centre Pope Leo will open a new Vatican-run ecological training centre in the Italian countryside on Friday, in an initiative Catholic officials say is meant to encourage world leaders to address global climate change.

It being Sunday, and having been to the #Vatican in support of Pope Francis's environmental work, here's my news to me good news for Sept 7 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Antarctic ice loss could have 'catastrophic' impact – DW – 08/21/2025 A study warned that Antarctic ice loss could cause more warming in the region and beyond, and could push some marine species toward extinction.

Catastrophic tipping point in Antarctica already happening
A "rapid and substantial slowdown" of ocean currents has already begun
Warming waters will further reduce Krill and phytoplankton populations and starve emperor penguins
Sea levels will rise

www.dw.com/en/antarctic...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Amazing new giant virus, found throughout the global ocean !!

Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.

A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screenshot of a magazine page with a story about the Antarctic Treaty

For my science column in this week's Listener, I talked to polar governance expert Alan Hemmings about the #Antarctic Treaty, geopolitics and emperors 🐧 current issue in shops now, online soon 🌎🇦🇶

AlphaFold - A practical guide AlphaFold - A practical guide

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good!

There are also little quizzes and interactives.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Even if you can’t attend this course in person, the online course materials are free and SO useful (I used this GitHub to plan out content for my new -Omics grad course)

Partager la science : le rôle de la médiation scientifique | Un hublot sur l'Océan - Fondation Tara Océan Léa Bello & Myriam Thomas

🎙️ #Podcast
Épisode 3 : Partager la science : le rôle de la médiation scientifique

🔬Léa Bello et Myriam Thomas vous embarquent pour un échange passionnant sur la #médiationscientifique.

🎧 Disponible sur toutes les plateformes : shows.acast.com/un-hublot-su...

Crédits : Agathe Roullin, Léa Bello

Are you interested in how diatoms communicate with each other? Exciting post-doc position available in my lab to study the signalling mechanisms of cell-cell communication in diatoms. Deadline 14th July. @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO210/p...

We had a wonderful time at the Molecular Life of Diatoms meeting in Ghent last week!! Many stimulating conversations and fantastic talks. Huge thanks to the organizers for this splendid event #mld8 #protistsOnSky 🤎💛💚🌊

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science