Dr. Maria Hadjifrangiskou is our keynote speaker for our Fall CNY ASM Meeting (October 16th in Syracuse, New York)! Registration for the meeting is free for branch members and $30 for non-members: tinyurl.com/CNYASM Not a branch member? You can join through the ASM website: lnkd.in/gwXqRx7C

Very excited for the inaugural #CNYASM this national feral cat day (Oct 16)! 🧫 🧪

CNY ASM@cnyasm.bsky.social · last wk.

Registration is now OPEN! Join us for the Inaugural Central New York ASM Branch Meeting: Culturing Connections at SUNY ESF on October 16! Register today: tinyurl.com/CNYASM #ASM #Microbiology #CultivatingConnections #CNYASM #SUNYESF #ScienceCommunity #Networking #STEM

Registration is now OPEN! Join us for the Inaugural Central New York ASM Branch Meeting: Culturing Connections at SUNY ESF on October 16! Register today: tinyurl.com/CNYASM #ASM #Microbiology #CultivatingConnections #CNYASM #SUNYESF #ScienceCommunity #Networking #STEM

Alright now that I’m home I guess it’s time to officially announce some really good news: I have received an NIH R35 MIRA!! This award will fund five years of research in my group using Aiptasia to study context dependency and GxGxE interactions in animal-microbe symbioses!

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

Hey #ICRS2026! Genevieve's talk is today and she has lots of lab stickers to share! Say hi so she doesn't return home with any (and, more importantly, because her dissertation is cool)! 9:20am, room 517, session 104! innovators-icrs2026programme.eventsairsite.com?agendaId=d28...

Check out our exciting list of invited speakers for our fall branch meeting (Oct 16 in Syracuse, NY)! sites.google.com/view/cnyasm/... Stay tuned for registration information coming soon!

Hey coral pals! I’m sitting #ICRS2026 out. BUT one of my wonderful PhD students, Genevieve Dallmeyer-Drennen, is representing the lab! Her talk is Fri 7/24, 9:20am, rm 517. This is her 1st ICRS & she’s en route with lab stickers! 🧪 innovators-icrs2026programme.eventsairsite.com?agendaId=d28...

Throughout my dad’s journey with Alzheimer’s, he’s become less conversant. So whenever he comes up with new one-liners, we savor it. Today in #eldercare, Dad started singing (in Hebrew) in the dentist’s waiting room. Then, as the hygienist greeted him, he asked about getting a “window view.”

The #CNYASM newsletter is worth reading the whole thing! There is a pet feature on the last page! Very proud of my (former) feral cat! 🐾

CNY ASM@cnyasm.bsky.social · 3w ago

Check out our latest Newsletter! heyzine.com/flip-book/b2...

I am happy to share one of the most exciting collaborative papers co-authored with scientists and artists around the world about the coral reef crisis and how to help address it 🌊🌎🧪🪸🌐🐡🧬🦠🌿🦑 @coralartscience.bsky.social shorturl.at/IaN1H

Communicating coral: Art and science for global reef action

Coral reefs are experiencing unprecedented rapid decline. Art can act as a beacon to engage audiences, influence policy, and inspire global action.

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I include a statement in my syllabus about how students can access the campus pantry in case they can’t afford to eat

Very excited to have this fun paper out led by @drseabove.bsky.social, collaborating with @annabel-hughes.bsky.social, Karl Castillo and Justin Ries. Strong Symbiodiniaceae Influence on Coral Gene Expression Under Ocean Acidification and Warming academic.oup.com/icb/article/...

Current vibes

Melting Chocolate Bunny

Alt: gif of chocolate bunny melting in a stream of hot air

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It's Tuesday! Time for a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Hannah Reich joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss phycosymbiosis: how bacteria and algae interact! This was recorded at ASM Microbe. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology youtu.be/f6irLu3BWg0?...

Forgot to acquire photographic evidence but joined in on our 'wednesday wiffles' ⚾ for the first time this season. My faves part of #SummerScienceShenanigans! Thanks for making this & the ice pops happen, @micromaresca.bsky.social !!

Love the irony that the @psaalgae.bsky.social meeting I almost didn’t go to wound up being my new faves conference ever. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Celebrating algae & adventuring around Juneau, AK was incredible, but the #newPI x #Phycophile reunion made it extra special. 🌊 🧪 #PhycologyWithoutApology

I’m sick of hearing about this and being messaged about it but this article is good. Any scientist with even a rudimentary knowledge of algae could fix this problem fairly easily for under $16 million. You can give that money back to the NSF. In fact, you could fund 100 3-year GRFs with $16M.

What Color Is the Reflecting Pool? An Investigation.

President Trump wanted an American-flag-blue Reflecting Pool. Instead, he got a swamp.

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Having so much fun at #PSA2026 with these fab 5 Assistant Profs of Phycology! 🌊 🌟 @intertidaleco.bsky.social @raemariew.bsky.social @hannahgreich.bsky.social @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social

Algae give zero fucks. My heroes.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump spent a lot of time criticizing other administrations, but he’s surely realizing now it wasn’t that simple. Blooming algae began to turn the water green in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool shortly after it was refilled following the completion of a $14.2 million restoration project that

All smiles (& cats) at #PSA2026 already! Excited for the first day of talks! #PhycologyWithoutApology @brookeweigel.bsky.social @raemariew.bsky.social @lanelaburi.bsky.social @intertidaleco.bsky.social @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social

Happy #PhycologyFriday from my bluesky-less PhD student Stefan’s #Symbiodiniaceae stock cultures. Excited for him to start his first culture experiment this month! Looks like the Fe & P limited media are working their magic 🤓🧪

It’s out! There are so many fun back stories with this project’s origin story & how it reshaped my career trajectory. For now, plz welcome my lab’s culture collection of #Symbiodiniaceae associated bacteria! & the many siderophores they produce! 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Widespread siderophore production among Symbiodiniaceae-associated bacteria

Abstract. Nutritional exchanges fuel the evolutionary and ecological dominance of multi-partner symbioses among reef-building corals and microbial associat

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Best part of being back in the office post conference is sharing the “free stuff haul” with my students 🤓🤑 Thanks, #ASMicrobe!

Had a blast at my first #ASMicrobe! Heading home from DC to unpack only so I can repack for #PSA2026 this weekend! My plan for “not traveling much this summer” gradually went out the window this spring… Stoked for the #newPI x #phycophile reunion next week!

And that’s a wrap on another fabulous #ASMicrobe! However, what makes the conference so special is really the COMMUNITY!

Watching #MattersMicrobial podcast live in #ASMicrobe Studio featuring @hannahgreich.bsky.social and @markowenmartin.bsky.social talking about symbiosis and corals 🪸

T minus ~75 minutes until @markowenmartin.bsky.social & I ate live with the #MattersMicrobial podcast in the ASM studio in the poster hall. Come listen to me yap about #PhycoSymbiosis & stay for some stickers. #ASMicrobe @asm.org @cnyasm.bsky.social

10.16.2026! #CNYASM #ASMicrobe

CNY ASM@cnyasm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did you know that thermophilic amoeba have been isolated by researchers at Syracuse University from a steam vent at SUNY ESF? artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/biology/news... You can visit this geyser of the built environment when you come to our first fall meeting, held at SUNY ESF this year!

Absolutely loving all of the goodies that come along with #ASMicrobe. Gathering lots of trinkets to bring home to my students! 🤓