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March 05, 2018

African Research Discovery Camp: Biogeochemical Oceanography in Upwelling Ecosystems
Two gloved hands with water and sediment inside

February 13, 2018

Exploring the Microbiome of an Ocean Bacteria, Earth Institute News
Columbia University graduate student Kyle Frischkorn ready to deploy the net he uses to capture the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

December 18, 2017

Single Equation Describes Process Behind Bacterial Adaptation, Technical University of Munich
Bacterial cultures in a temperature bath

October 02, 2017

Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The 2016 Gradients Cruise
Image depicting the course of the 2016 Gradients Cruise

September 21, 2017

Green Algae Could Hold Clues for Engineering Faster Growing Crops By Yasemin Saplakoglu
Inside the pyrenoid, a carbon-dioxide concentrating structure of algae, are carbon-fixing enzymes called Rubiscos (blue ball-like structures)

June 23, 2017

Microbe Generates Extraordinarily Diverse Array of Peptide, MIT News
Some Prochlorococcus varieties can each produce more than two dozen different peptides

May 30, 2017

New Collaboration on Theory of Microbial Ecosystems Launched By Thomas Sumner
A microbial community around a marine diatom (in white). Motile bacteria (their tracks are in blue) accumulate near the diatom to utilise organic matter leaking from it.

April 13, 2017

Simons Foundation Launches New Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology
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