Today, I was able to secure a research grant! Thank you @dostpcaarrd for funding our study for the next two years! 🎊🎊🙌🙌

Ecological constraints and evolutionary trade-offs shape nitrogen fixation across habitats Abstract. From its earliest beginnings, life’s expansion into new habitats has been profoundly shaped by its reciprocal interactions with Earth’s changing

New paper! Why are some Nitrogen fixing microbes more complex?

@msobol.bsky.social et al. find that microbes with more N2-fixation genes have larger, more versatile genomes, showing how changing environments shaped this key metabolism!

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Genomics study of some yeasts isolated from creek water of an inactive stratovolcano in the Philippines.

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We're back with the calendar for another year!! 😁✌🏽
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And feel free to email us at youngdiatomists@gmail.com if you have any questions (⁉️)

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Sharing our recent study:

Reminiscent of the pre‐diatom? A hitherto undescribed scaly bolidophyte Lepidoparma frigida gen. et sp. nov. in a new order Lepidoparmales based on morphology, phylogeny, and ecology - Journal of Phycology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A research blog about my study on Cymbella janischii blooms (an invasive diatom species in Japan rivers) was featured in Springer Nature Research Communities.

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Algological and Botanical Student Scientific Association Chloris and Department of Algology and Mycology from the University of Lodz, Free online Lecture: Sex and the Diatom by David G. Mann. Tuesday, July 1st 2025 4 PM CEST

Have you ever wondered about the fascinating world of diatom sexual reproduction? Here’s your chance to dive in! Join us for the lecture "Sex and the Diatoms," presented by Prof. David G. Mann, organised by the Algolog. and Bot. Student Scient. Association "Chloris" on July 1st at 4 PM CEST.

Sharing our recent study:

Reminiscent of the pre‐diatom? A hitherto undescribed scaly bolidophyte Lepidoparma frigida gen. et sp. nov. in a new order Lepidoparmales based on morphology, phylogeny, and ecology - Journal of Phycology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thank you the International Phycological Society for this recognition!

Still wrapping up the genomics part of this study as a final part of my thesis dissertation — just got my bacterial genome raw sequences last week.

Thank you for this motivation to move forward!

がんばってね 😀

Day 2 Highlights of the 13th IPC

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Mini-symposia - IPC2025 Special Symposia Topics: Algae and their Microbial Symbionts: from Mutualists to Pathogens Chairs/Co-chairs: Suhelen Egan, Simon Dittami Speakers: Suhelen

Mini-symposium and parallel sessions starts today at IPC 2025

ipc2025.science.upd.edu.ph/mini-symposia/

🆕 Published!
"Annotated Checklist and Illustrations of Pinnularia Species in the Marikina River, Rizal (Luzon), the Philippines"

This study documents Pinnularia species from one of Luzon’s key river systems—contributing to freshwater biodiversity baselines and regional diatom taxonomy.

📢 Good News: Early bird Registration is Extended until May 15, 2025!
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Contact us at ipc2025@msi.up.edu.ph

📢 REMINDER: Early Bird Registration ends April 30!
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“Non-core bacteria occur frequently in high abundance in wild bumble bee gut microbiomes. One species of bacteria, Serratia, reduces bee lifespan & reproduction. The core microbiome, bee age, & pollen diet can protect against Serratia infection.” 🐝 buff.ly/Pu2s4zH

🌍🚀 Registration is now open for the 13th International Phycological Congress!

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Before paying, please be reminded that your registration will be INVALID without pertinent verifications.

#Phycology #Seaweed #Microalgae

Me please! Thanks

We are excited to invite you to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at IPC 2025! 🎉
Abstract submissions are still open, so don’t miss your chance to showcase your research. Submit your abstract now via the IPC 2025 conference platform on Oxford Abstracts.

🚨 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended! 🚨

Good news! To give more opportunities to students, researchers, and professionals, we’ve extended the abstract submission deadline to February 15, 2025 (11:59 P.M. GMT+8 | Philippine Time).

🌐 More info: ipc2025.science.upd.edu.ph

More job postings! Keep an eye out if you are looking for a diatom job! Isdr.org/opportunities

Plant Physiology Call for Papers. 026 Focus Issue on Algae and Aquatic Plants. Submission deadline" November 2025. Featuring Plant Physiology logo and plant scientific figures.

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Algae and Aquatic Plants. This Focus Issue welcomes the submission of research articles on photosynthetic organisms found in aquatic or semi-aquatic environments. Submission Deadline: 11/2025. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages/plant-physi...

🌿 Exciting news for all phycologists! 🌊

📢 The deadline for abstract submission at the 13th International Phycological Congress (IPC13) has been extended! 🎉

📜 Don’t miss this opportunity to present your work and connect with the global phycology community.

New issue of Journal of Phycology is out!

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From cyanobacteria on sea turtles to Oxford Nanopore #sequencing of brown algae. Also: a novel #genome resource and a methods paper.

Thank you @ednacollab.bsky.social for giving me an opportunity to attend this nice course! It was informative and very relevant to my study. 👏👏

UDE diatoms in the wild 2024: a new image dataset of freshwater diatoms for training deep learning models

Largest available diatom image dataset from our ecological research projects

Highlights: 318 diatom samples, 83570 images if 611 diatom taxa, 101 species with at least 100 examples, two deep learning experiments going beyond standard supervised learning

Collaboration of the phycology lab of the university duisburg essen, the biodata mining group of Bielefeld university and the georgia tech group of the university of lorraine. Funded partially by the crc RESIST 1439 and the Humboldt foundation.

📢New paper out! The biggest diatom training set has been published on GigaScience. Read all about it here: doi.org/10.1093/giga...

High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the Nanopore platform Abstract. Small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene amplicon sequencing is a foundational method in microbial ecology. Currently, short-read platforms

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Unraveling Keystone Taxa: Interactions Within Microbial Networks and Environmental Dynamics in Lake Mendota https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.11.623027v1 Microbial communities in freshwater ecosystems drive critical biogeochemical cycles, nutrient transf

Unraveling Keystone Taxa: Interactions Within Microbial Networks and Environmental Dynamics in Lake Mendota www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11....

an evolutionary tree of a group of microbes plus illustrative photos of the organisms

New #ISEPpapers! Hidden syndinian and perkinsid infections in dinoflagellate hosts revealed by single-cell transcriptomics academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... by Elizabeth Cooney et al.

#protists #algae #symbiosis #microbes #plankton #evolution #biology

large complicated circular evolutionary tree

New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryotic genomes from a global metagenomic data set illuminate trophic modes and biogeography of ocean plankton journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

#microbes #protists #algae #biology #ecology #genomics #bioinformatics #plankton #ocean #biogeography #metagenomics

Sharing everyone our recent findings:

Unveiling the genomic landscape:
Whole genome draft and phenotypic
profiling of Oceanobacillus sp.
SE10311 isolated from Mount
Makiling, Philippines

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