#USFCMS

Image of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis under the microscope. The dinoflagellate is heart shaped and the chloroplasts are clearly visible around the edges of the cell.

Excited to share our new mSphere paper describing ssRNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in southwest Florida in mSphere led by Jean Lim - a 🧵(1/10) 🧪🦠🌊 #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #USFCMS @asm.org @cmarinescience.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

What is an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler? PhD student Luis Sorinas of the Ocean Circulation Lab at CMS explains how they measure currents and how he uses them in his research.

#USF #USFCMS #oceancurrents #gulfofmexico

Figure from paper showing healthy-looking seagrass infected with an empty vector (MOCK, on left) and the phenotypes of deformed, wrinkled, or wavy-edged leaves (black arrows) by agroinfected with turtle grass virus X.

In our new paper, we created an infectious clone for a #seagrass #virus identified through sequencing and agroinfected seagrass to reveal virus-induced symptoms. A critical first step to understanding the ecology of seagrass viruses! #USFCMS 🧪🦑 🌱🦠🌊 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Here is the #ASL version of the collaborative poem written by artists with disabilities at ‪CreativeClayStPete‬ with poet Sara Ries Dziekonski, shared in American Sign language by ASL interpreter Carol Downing and performed by actor Vickie Daignault! #USFCMS #SciArt www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5jm...

Team led by USF alum discovers seamount, new species along Nazca Ridge A new discovery of a deep-sea mountain is the latest in a string of new seafloor data gathered in the Nazca Ridge area by scientists led by USF CMS alumni Jyotika Virmani, who is the first Executive D...

Incredible discovery by the Schmidt Oceanography
team, led by their Executive Director and CMS alum Jyotika Virmani. We are so proud of your continued success and contribution to advancing deep-sea exploration!
#usfcms #deepsea #marinescience

A woman and a man, wearing graduation gowns from the University of South Florida, pose smiling for a photo outside

So proud of Dr. Natalie Sawaya and Master Keith Keel who graduated yesterday (along with 8 other incredible #USFCMS students)!

Four people pose next to the CUFES, which looks sort of like a daiquiri machine, on the R/V Weatherbird II

Approaching the Sunshine Skyway bridge, view includes the front of the ship and a blue sky with white fluffy clouds

Today our students begin their 11-day cruise on the West Florida Shelf to collect fish eggs with our new Continuous Underway Fish Egg Sampler. When they return, we’ll use DNA barcoding to figure out which fish are spawning where and when! 🦑🐟🐠🧬🧪 #USFCMS

Limited potexvirus diversity in eastern Gulf of Mexico seagrass meadows Turtlegrass virus X, which infects the seagrass Thalassia testudinum, is the only potexvirus known to infect marine flowering plants. We investigated potexvirus distribution in seagrasses using a dege...

Excited to share our new paper on potexviruses in seagrass lead by Jean Lim - www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #MarineLife 🌽🧪#PlantScience #MicroSky #VirEvol #USFCMS

World map showing the range of Diadematidae and where Diadematidae scuticociliatosis has been reported

Check out our Dispatch "Coral Reef Ecology: Expanding Urchin Disease Threatens Ecosystem Balance" about the growing threat from Diadematidae scuticociliatosis in Current Biology authors.elsevier.com/a/1jH9E_LsQS... Free access through this link til August. @ianhewson.bsky.social #USFCMS

Undergraduate Aly Rogers posing in front of a poster entitled “RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in the coastal waters of Southwest Florida”

Come visit Jean Lim and Aly Rogers at their poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 today! #ASMicrobe 🦠 #USFCMS

Karenia brevis, the dinoflagellate that causes red tide, under the microscope (~400x magnified).

Macro photo of the sea urchin Diadema setosum, featuring its bright orange anal cone and blue iridophores

Group of lab members posing behind experimental tanks with seagrasses for examining effects of viral infection

Woman (me), holding a small long-spined Black Sea urchin in gloved hands while looking at the camera

Mya Breitbart, faculty at the Univ of South Florida using genomics to study marine critters from viruses through charismatic megafauna! Current projects: fish egg DNA barcoding, sea urchin disease, harmful algal blooms, seagrass viruses, marine phage, water quality. Passionate about outreach #USFCMS

Heart shaped dinoflagellate - green chloroplasts ring the outside of a 4-chambered cell

How can such a gorgeous heart-shaped phytoplankton cause so much misery? Spent some quality microscope time with Karenia brevis today - a dinoflagellate that causes red tide in Florida 🧪 🦑 🦠 #USFCMS

Woman presenting her research. Slide in the background is about the importance of marine viruses

Large group of people standing in the Florida sunshine posing for the camera. Front row people have their feet dangling in the pool. In the center front sits newly minted PhD Natalie wearing a two-tiered graduation cap and brandishing a PhD sword!

Natalie showing off her graduation cap while lab members and friends look on with excitement

Natalie posing with her friend Dana for a photo, showing another angle of the exuberant graduation cap highlighting moments from her PhD journey

A huge congrats to Dr. Natalie Sawaya on her successful PhD defense about the polony method she developed to quantify gokushoviruses and their abundance in the Red Sea! #USFCMS #phagesky

Transglobal spread of an ecologically relevant sea urchin parasite Abstract. Mass mortality of the dominant coral reef herbivore Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean in the early 1980s contributed to a persistent phase shift fro

Excited to share our new paper showing the unfortunate spread of scuticociliatosis to Diadema setosum in the Sea of Oman. #urchin #USFCMS 🦑🧪 #protistsonsky @bellathebiologist.bsky.social @brayan-vilanova.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

CMS researchers use art as dynamic tool for science communication At the Art and Science exhibit, CMS scientists used various artistic methods to communicate science with the local community.

Awesome story by Jess Van Vaerenbergh about our recent art & science event organized by Makenzie Kerr! - www.usf.edu/marine-scien... #USFCMS 🎨 🦑 🧪 #sciart

Woman standing at the end of a lab bench while several artists look into dissecting microscopes at plankton samples

We had so much fun today hosting the artists from Creative Clay as they explored marine plankton as part of our new collaborative project! Can’t wait to see what they create! #USFCMS

Group of scientists posing outside in the sunshine in front of USF College of Marine Science

It’s urchin experiment time! #USFCMS @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social @bellathebiologist.bsky.social @brayan-vilanova.bsky.social 🧪🦑 🧬 🦠

I’m working to get our comms team to create a BlueSky account, so now that we have hashtags here, can you add #USFCMS to work-related posts please? @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social @lydiaruggles.bsky.social @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social (anyone else I’ve missed?)

Artists and Scientists Creating - Sheila Cowley – Playwright NEA-Creative Pinellas Beyond Placemaking Grant Project 2024 Downloadable press release Scientists and artists share a passion for exploration and discovery. This project sparks inclusive collaboration...

Excited to share this #art & #science collaboration that we're embarking on with Creative Clay's neurodiverse and physically challenged artists... Poetry, dance performances, sonified data soundtracks, soundscapes, audiobooks, all in English, Spanish, & ASL - www.sdcowley.com/artists-and-... #USFCMS