I'm delighted to share that our latest manuscript has been accepted for publication in a Nature Portfolio journal 😊 This paper has been years in the making. I'm incredibly proud of the work and deeply grateful to my collaborators, and everyone who contributed! #nature #microbiology #endozoicomonas

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Coral Team Research Technician - The Coral Reef and Ocean Health Research Group (Bahr Lab, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi) Full details here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUCC... #coralreefs #jobs #researchtechnician #coralaquarium #coraljob #careers #coral

It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef - Nature

The Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database compiles prokaryotic, viral and eukaryotic genomes from seawater collected from the Great Barrier Reef, providing a rich resource for the study of mar...

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Happy to share that my colleague Trent Haydon will be presenting our latest research at #icrs2026 in Auckland, New Zealand. We show a previously unrecognized role for "unusual" bacterial steroid production in regulating coral immune responses during thermal stress! #icrs2026 #coral #microbiome

Testing this!! New preprint out!! Vitamin B6 catabolites as Interkingdom signals within the ocean microbiome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #marine #diatom #microbiome #signaling