Science in action... a research cruise to explore marine viruses & their microbial hosts made possible by NSF support and held together by the talents of @negilbert.bsky.social (now at Syracuse U) and Daniel Muratore (now at SFI), @camelia-s-gochev.bsky.social (of Technion) & many more...
We are just starting to unravel the role of viral infection in ocean seasonality. It was a great opportunity to take part in this research effort. 🦠🌊
@biologytechnion.bsky.social
"Seasonal enhancement of the viral shunt catalyzes a subsurface oxygen maximum in the Sargasso Sea" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67002-1
Viruses transform microbes, populations, & ecosystems.
In new work jointly led w/@tn-marine-micro.bsky.social + more, we find a link between enhanced viral infection and productivity 50 meters below the surface in the otherwise nutrient limited Sargasso Sea.
a 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It was my first cruise, just two weeks in the lab. Absolutely a great start 🌊🌊🌊
Preparing CTD-rosettes
When an international group of empiricists and theorists go to sea, good things happen...
New manuscript showing how recurring zones of elevated oxygen that harbor dense populations of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria are connected to viral activity - a 🧵.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy to be part of this neat work by led by @camelia-s-gochev.bsky.social and Debbie Lindell on cyanophages infection rates in the Sourthen Ocean.
Spoil alert! Sub-Antarctic waters are not a pleasant place for picocyanobacteria, and it not because it is cold!
The AVW12 committee wishes you a Happy New Year 2025! A quick reminder that the deadline for abstract submission is 15 February: avw12.sciencesconf.org. Spread the word with your network!
Happy to share that our work on viral infection of cyanobacteria in the Southern Ocean has been published 🦠❄️🌊
doi.org/10.1111/1462...
Thank you to all the collaborators in this project
@d2mory.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social
@biologytechnion.bsky.social
Cold Surface Waters of the Sub-Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biologytechnion.bsky.social
