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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
Light blue (center) to dark blue (edges) gradient

April 13, 2017

Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
A chain-forming diatom, a common type of phytoplankton, found in the Northeast

March 10, 2017

Meet the Most Abundant Photosynthesizing Cell in the Ocean
Illustration of four green Prochlorococcus cells

March 07, 2017

Signs of Complex Life Found from 2.33 Billion Years Ago, MIT News
Red tinted eukaryotes

May 17, 2016

Four Scientists Named Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
A chain-forming diatom, a common type of phytoplankton, found in the Northeast
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