Figure 3 Louchart (2026): Principal Component Analysis on the eight individual-level functional traits of Microcystis. The PCA represents the functional space of the tested Microcystis strain, where each colour represents a set of specific treatment conditions including reference conditions as the control (purple), high pCO2 (+CO2; red), and limitation by nitrogen (orange), phosphorus (green) and light (blue). The density curves in the margin represent the distribution of the functional space of Microcystis for each condition along the first two dimensions of the PCA. Each point in the scatter plot represents an individual Microcystis cell. The length of the arrows indicates the correlation of the functional traits with the principal components.

New publication: Individual-Level #TraitResponses in #Cyanobacterial #Populations and #Communities, by @amdrost.bsky.social and others.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

As per usual, VOLT-all meetings are fuelled by cake and good science. Here are a couple of pictures from a talk by @danilloalvarenga.bsky.social on #cyanobacterial #symbioses with #mosses and #lichens.

Returning to Nostoc #cyanobacterial partner in Enchylium tenax 'jelly #lichen' below. Here it is as a free-living organism. Sometimes called 'troll's butter'! Essentially huge colony of bead-like chains of photosynthesising bacteria glommed together in water-absorbing gel. Walesby, Lincolnshire.

The missing #chlorophyll in #cyanobacterial #photosystem I

A cool piece of work

🧪📣 Save the date for SETAC Europe 2016 @setac.bsky.social #SETACMaastricht !
Our Session title: "Integrating #Genomics, #Metabolomics, and Control Strategies to Address Harmful Algal and #Cyanobacterial Blooms", Chaired by Petra Visser, Dail Laughinghouse, @anastasiahiskia.bsky.social.

Dr. Doris Schieder and his teams successfully utilize #cyanobacterial biomass as a novel feedstock in a cutting-edge P. pastoris platform. The extended toolkit exhibits promising results for offering a sustainable alternative for #enzyme expression.
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Schieder et al. reported an integrative approach that could rapidly identify improved #enzyme expression and #secretion conditions and use #cyanobacterial waste biomass as feed for supporting #Pichia pastoris fermentation
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#Cyanobacterial #blooms in the Po river basin and the eastern #Alps | doi.org/10.4081/aiol... | #academicsky #openaccess

Cigarette butt on the floor in front of the Hofburg in Vienna

Tomorrow (13.05) at #SETACViena, I will be presenting a poster (Tu036) on the impact of multiple #stressors on #cyanobacterial metabolism🧪.

Spoiler alert 👀: I will be talking about cigarette butts 🚬and chytrid #parasites. Come and visit me if you would like to find out more!

@setac.bsky.social

Hans Paerl - Mitigating harmful #cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) in an increasingly chaotic and extreme global #climate. #Cyanobacteria like it hot, but it's not just temperature....Invited talk at #ICTC13.

Keynote speaker with title slide

Slide with a list of songs played at the presentation

Invited speaker with his title slide

People at the beach party

Day 4 at #ICTC13. Great talks on taxonomy, metagenomics, #cyanobacterial metabolism and much more… we even had some music. Ending the day with the great farewell beach party

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Key note speaker with her title slide

Scientist presenting her work

View of the Light house in Chania

Day 3 was short but just as interesting. From the roots of #cyanobacterial names to their genomic diversity. Also a great opportunity to share my work and present my lovely #chytrids to the #ICTC13 audience and finish the day with plenty of time in beautiful Chania

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New publication: Risk assessment of toxic #cyanobacterial blooms in recreational #waters: A comparative study of monitoring #methods. #microsystin #fluorometry #microscopy #qPCR
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2024.102683

In 2010, I was still quite new to #cyanobacterial #NaturalProducts and wanted to learn more about their #toxins. But working in industry, I didn’t have access to proper literature databases. 2/

Eva starting off the last symposium "Mechanisms of #Genome #Evolution" with the fascinating case of #Paulinella —an organism that acquired a primary #photosynthetic #cyanobacterial #symbiont independent of #Archaeplastida ! #plastids #plants #symbiosis #photosynthesis #plantbio18