Exciting SWBio PhD opportunity to study cell signalling in marine diatoms during heat stress. Deadline 3rd December 2025 @swbiodtp.bsky.social @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
Katherine Helliwell
@kehelliwell.bsky.social
Algae enthusiast, Associate Professor @UniofExeter, joint appointment @thembauk Algal ecophysiology | signalling | microbiome | molecular microbiology | diatoms!
How do diatoms cope with nitrogen and phosphorus colimitation? — Happy to share our new paper: "Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms" 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social
Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms
Diatoms exert reciprocal, fine-scale control of P acquisition by N availability, depending on the immediate needs of the cell.
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🧪How do marine phytoplankton cope with shortage of two vital nutrients? New research @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social reveals a hierarchy in nutrient stress responses to nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of marine diatoms🧬 Read the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #diatoms
How do diatoms cope with nitrogen and phosphorus colimitation? — Happy to share our new paper: "Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms" 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social
Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms
Diatoms exert reciprocal, fine-scale control of P acquisition by N availability, depending on the immediate needs of the cell.
doi.org
#OTD in 1876 Marie Victoire Lebour was born. Marie Lebour was based @thembauk.bsky.social for much of her caeer, which primarily focused on planktonic larvae and other microplantkon. We are privileged to have her personal library and research material in the library and archive. 📷UM158
🚀 Exciting opportunity to launch your independent research career! @thembauk.bsky.social Reach out if you'd like to hear more. @mldiatoms.bsky.social #protistsonsky #ECR #AcademicJobs #Protistology #marinemicrobes
🔬 We're Hiring: Become the next MBA Anne Warner Research Fellow You’ll be at the forefront of groundbreaking research, leading a team of scientists to unlock new insights in the realms of cell and molecular biology. Apply by 17th September 2025 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/mba-anne...
🚀 Exciting opportunity to launch your independent research career! @thembauk.bsky.social Reach out if you'd like to hear more. @mldiatoms.bsky.social #protistsonsky #ECR #AcademicJobs #Protistology #marinemicrobes
🔬 We're Hiring: Become the next MBA Anne Warner Research Fellow You’ll be at the forefront of groundbreaking research, leading a team of scientists to unlock new insights in the realms of cell and molecular biology. Apply by 17th September 2025 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/mba-anne...
🌊Curious how multi-nutrient scarcity impacts marine microbes🦠? Excited to announce our #OSM26 session, Glasgow Feb 22-27! Join us in bridging cell biology, modelling & oceanography! tinyurl.com/zzt5s9su @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @proteocean.bsky.social @cmarkmoore.bsky.social
Nutrient Co-limitation of Marine Microbes: Exploring Cellular to Ecosystem-Level Effects
Nutrient availability limits microbial growth in marine ecosystems globally. Accumulating evidence has highlighted the prevalence of nutrient co-limitation, whereby two or more nutrients restrict mari...
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🌊Curious how multi-nutrient scarcity impacts marine microbes🦠? Excited to announce our #OSM26 session, Glasgow Feb 22-27! Join us in bridging cell biology, modelling & oceanography! tinyurl.com/zzt5s9su @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @proteocean.bsky.social @cmarkmoore.bsky.social
Nutrient Co-limitation of Marine Microbes: Exploring Cellular to Ecosystem-Level Effects
Nutrient availability limits microbial growth in marine ecosystems globally. Accumulating evidence has highlighted the prevalence of nutrient co-limitation, whereby two or more nutrients restrict mari...
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We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
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We had a wonderful time at the Molecular Life of Diatoms meeting in Ghent last week!! Many stimulating conversations and fantastic talks. Huge thanks to the organizers for this splendid event #mld8 #protistsOnSky 🤎💛💚🌊
Looking back on last week's Molecular Life of Diatoms conference 🌊. Honored to be hosting this tight-knit, creative and collaborative community in Ghent! Topics ranged from single-cell approaches, imaging breakthroughs, new insights into photosynthesis and symbioses etc. #protistsOnSky #MLD8
Exciting postdoc opportunity here👇📢📢 investigating diatom sensing @mldiatoms.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social come join us! #protistsOnSky #diatoms #signalling
Are you interested in how diatoms communicate with each other? Exciting post-doc position available in my lab to study the signalling mechanisms of cell-cell communication in diatoms. Deadline 14th July. @kehelliwell.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO210/p...
NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...
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We’re hiring! 🌊💼 Join our Operations team at our waterfront location in #Plymouth, where you'll be central to supporting us as a destination for #MarineBiology research & discovery. 🐟 Aquarium & Research Facilities Technician 🌊 Site Services Coordinator More info: mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....
Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
🎉 Now out “Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free‑living euryarchaeal‑like ancestors” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors - Nature Microbiology
Phylogenetic reconstructions with conserved protein markers from the 11 known DPANN phyla reveal their monophyletic placement within the Euryarchaeota.
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I am hiring a research/technical specialist/manager to help us make the most out of new LC-MS instrumentation at USC! Please share the word and write me for more details. usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Assistant Director of the Center for Proteomics Discovery (Research Program Administrator)
The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is seeking a Research Program Administrator (non-Clinical) and Assistant Director of the USC Center for Proteomics Discovery. This...
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🚨 We’re recruiting PhD students! 🚨 Join the Stem Cell Biology and Evolution lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social to study planarians, stem cells & evolution. 2 projects available - 1 week left to apply! Interested and no PhD yet? Apply now. Or help us spread the word! 🙌 www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter
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Join us @thembauk.bsky.social in Plymouth for the 4th edition of the Advances in Coccolithophore Research 🌊 🔬🦠🧪📈 <Coccolithophore emoji> ⚠️Register Now: shorturl.at/ly1LT #Coccolithophores #protistsonsky Coccolithophore research on: Biogeochemistry, Cell Biology, Climate Change, Ecosystems
Advances in Coccolithophore Research 2025
The Advances in Coccolithophore Research meeting aims to bring together international early career and established coccolithophore scientists. This is a hybrid meeting hosted at the MBA, Plymouth.
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Today was a perfectly colorful day 🌈—on the way to sample coccolithophores, we stumbled upon a pink lake. Under the scope, I found green algae and diatoms in a “forest” of pink! 💗💚🔬 #protistsonsky #CoccoChannel #HRZZ
Great PhD opportunities at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples (Italy). 6 fellowships are available to carry out interdisciplinary training. https://www.szn.it/index.php/it/bandi-e-concorsi/bandi-di-concorso/ph-d-program/ph-d-program-open-calls Topics include the function of […]
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This is a super unique senior role on our technology team, during an exciting time for technology investment in the UK 👇
Our team is looking for a new senior colleague with experience leading the development of new marine sensing technology. Have a look! You'd join a highly-interdisciplinary team of great people developing novel instruments from concept to field deployments. careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/prin...
Yet again we are seeing "unprecedented" marine heatwaves in 2025. buff.ly/mnEcYcV What will we see in 2025 & beyond? @dansmale1.bsky.social comments, “If this continues through the summer we would expect to see widespread biological impacts. This is a significant warming event." buff.ly/U6iBTBN
Congratulations to Professor Julian Hibberd, Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his groundbreaking work on C4 photosynthesis. Read more: tinyurl.com/y53wvve3 #PlantSciences 🧪 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
'Ocean with #DavidAttenborough' - Out in cinemas TODAY! I am super proud to have worked on the film with @thembauk.bsky.social colleagues on the RV Sepia & the incredible team at Silverback Films www.mba.ac.uk/marine-biolo... The best ocean documentary I have every seen! #oceanfilm #mustwatch 🌊🐙🪸🦞🐟
Marine Biological Association makes key contribution to new documentary film Ocean with David Attenborough | Marine Biological Association
Senior Research Fellow Dr Bryce Stewart and the Marine Biological Association's (MBA) research vessel ‘Sepia’ played a vital role in helping to create key
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We’re proud to share that the MBA made a key contribution to #Ocean with #DavidAttenborough! 🎬🌊 This breathtaking new film showcases the wonder of life beneath the waves & exposes the realities & urgent challenges facing our ocean ➡️ www.mba.ac.uk/marine-biolo... @bd-stew.bsky.social #OceanFilm
This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
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Latest findings on cryptic infection of giant viruses published in @ScienceMagazine. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga
Latency is a common strategy in a wide range of viral lineages, but its prevalence in giant viruses remains unknown. Here we describe a 617 kbp integrated giant viral element in the model green alga C...
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Q: Bored of photosynthesis and want to eat seaweed instead? What do you do? A: acquire an alginate lyase gene from bacteria, and massively duplicate & neofunctionalise it to generate you own alginate catabolism system. Cool paper from Jedd lab in @plosbiology.org - journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...