“Bigelow Laboratory's Center for Aquatic Cytometry is the best place to learn about flow cytometry, and the knowledge and equipment there cannot be matched," wrote one Introduction to Flow Cytometry participant from 2024. "If you use flow cytometry, this is the best way to learn from the experts!"
As of this week, I have begun a new part-time role as a Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. I’m very excited to join AAU’s Center for Microbial Communities’ ambitious team while continuing my research programs and serving as SCGC director at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in the US.
I am excited to announce two significant improvements to SCGC services:
1. A two-fold reduction of service fees for FACS-based SAG generation.
2. Massively parallel sequencing of single cells and extracellular genetic elements using semipermeable microcapsules (SPCs).
scgc.bigelow.org
It has been gratifying to collaborate with Atrandi Biosciences in the development of a novel approach to analyze the genomes of individual extracellular genetic elements, which revealed the abundance of viruses with non-canonical DNA in the ocean:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m excited to share our effort to obtain one of the first estimates of the net rate, in physical time, of lateral gene transfer (LGT) – nature’s own genetic engineering - across a complex, global microbiome:
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Keynote speakers at the 2025 Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium: Pascal Barbry from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, CNRS. Tanya Foley from the Institut Pasteur. Muzlifah Haniffa from Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Ramunas Stepanauskas from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
📣 Registration and abstract submission has just opened for the 2025 Norwich #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium!
We're excited to announce our four Keynote Speakers discussing the latest research, technologies, and applications across the field.
Register here ➡️ www.earlham.ac.uk/events/norwi...
Please consider submitting your abstract to the Microbial Processes of the Dark Ocean session at the upcoming ASLO meeting: www.aslo.org/charlotte-20...
NSF BIO and OCE postdoc fellowships:
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
I hope this in-depth comparison of single amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) will help inform data interpretation and experimental design in a broad range of research projects: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
endosymbiont fans take note 👇
a new member in the club: the nitroplast
#MicroSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Just looked up whether the plural of phage is phage or phages, and found this gem of an article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is what Gemini AI has to say about microbial single cell genomics😀:
A scientist peered with a grin,
At a drop, a lone microbe within.
No culturing woes,
Just DNA she exposed,
A whole genome - a humankind's win!
2024 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology:
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Kevin Guay is adding 200 TB to Bigelow Laboratory's HPC data storage, which is very much appreciate by the SCGC team! Just keep this in perspective: that's how much microbial genomic data is stored and used in each cup of ocean water!
The best part: Funds are available to fully reimburse student and postdoc registration fees!
psst... it's Friday afternoon and I know y'all are packing up, but...
Application is open for the the Bioinformatics of Microbial Single Cells workshop at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences happening in Maine next April! Check it out and apply: bigelowlab.github.io/scgc-bioinfo...
Engineering artificial photosynthesis based on rhodopsin for CO2 fixation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
I'm migrating away from Twitter/X, hope Blue Sky finds a way to remain a useful and responsible platform.