Thomas Mock

A new sign has arrived in our neighbourhood. #Norwich

Award winning poster by our very own Yixuan Li 🎉👏 #CMINorwich2026 @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

A molecular toolkit (e.g. CRISPR/Cas based genome editing) for the marine picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda.

And here we go: #CMINorwich26 @norwichmicro.bsky.social

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...

Worth reading: 2.4 million uniformly analyzed microbial communities: The MicrobeAtlas database

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

Huge news 🌍🧬
The Protist 10,000 Genomes Project is joining the Earth BioGenome Project.
Protists may represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity — yet only a tiny fraction have reference genomes.
Time to change that. 🚀✨
Learn more 👉 ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/p10k/
#EBP #Protists #Genomics #TreeOfLife

Life cycle of Cyanidiophyceae.

Fascinating single-cell red algae: models for evolution and adaptation

#TansleyReview by Berger et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience

Just out @natcomms.nature.com Our new paper led by @karaslab.bsky.social with our help (Thalassiosira pseudonana).

Breaking the cell wall for efficient DNA delivery to #diatoms

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats! 🎉

Winter has returned to #Norwich

Our new preprint co-led with colleagues from #IOCAS and #BGI

The genetic repertoire of the deep sea: from sequence to
structure and function

@ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sad news

Game-changing international ocean treaty comes into force Almost two decades in the making, an international agreement to protect and sustainably use marine life in international waters and the international seabed is due to come into force on Saturday, mark...

Some times we have good news: today enters into force the High Seas Treaty, known as the #Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement
Hope for the #ocean
#OceanOptimism
#MarineEcology
#MarinePolicy
news.un.org/en/story/202...

I am glad you like them. Of course, share them across your other social channels. 😊

This morning at the campus of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Good morning #Norwich and a happy 2026!

Most dystopian landscape in Germany during blue-hour cycling

Just out - an update on our paper from 2015:

Evolution of Microalgae and Their Adaptations in Different Marine Ecosystems #ocean #algae #microbiomes

Led by @antoniaotte1.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/9780...

Our new paper just out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Venturing into the deep sea: #microbiomes and their feedbacks play a significant role in shaping habitat-scale spatial heterogeneity of #cold-seep carbonates. @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

On my way home

Our consensus statement led by @jgi.doe.gov on standards for technical reporting in #environmental and host-associated #microbiome studies #STREAMS @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scenic drive along the Laoshan mountains

At OUC campus in November

A double helix in front of @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Thanks for the invite! See you tomorrow.

From microbial diversity to function; evaluating dimensionality reduction methods Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically Machine Learning (ML), have become an increasingly prevalent tool in microbial oceanography. The high dimensionality of microbial diversity data fro...

Our new preprint led by Emelia J. Chamberlain:

From microbial diversity to function: evaluating dimensionality reduction methods

#MOSAiC #Arctic #Ocean #microbiomes @norwichmicro.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good luck 🤞

Genotype and culture condition effects on single-cell diatom microbiomes: enhanced detection of low-abundance taxa with CRISPR-Cas9 Abstract. Primary production in aquatic systems is governed by interactions between microalgae and their associated bacteria. Most of our knowledge about a

Our new methods paper led by AWI colleagues with the support of #OmicronCr. CRISPR-Cas for single-cell diatom microbiome research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social
@norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Seen today on our campus @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

New issue of Journal of Phycology is out with our paper highlighted on the cover. 😀 Congrats to all authors and especially Longji Deng 👏 @ueaenv.bsky.social

First genetic transformation system in a heterotrophic #diatom

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15298817...

Fully funded #PhD Studentship in my lab! Get in touch 😀

The role of light-driven proton pumps in sustaining oceanic primary production #microbial #rhodopsins #diatom #ocean
@ueaenv.bsky.social

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