📣🎉🌊Our 2024-2026 Bridge-to-PhD Fellows have completed their program! Thank you Mariana (@martorres.bsky.social), Emily (@yunqianhu.bsky.social), Amanda, Jill, & Daniella (@daniellaasturias.bsky.social) for your contributions to C-CoMP! We are excited to see where you go next. Stay in touch!

📣🌊🦠Today is the day! Applications for C-CoMP's 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships are due today by 11:59 pm EDT! Learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 We are accepting applications for our 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships! If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate of a 4 year, accredited university/college and interested in ocean science 🌊, learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/! Apply by 6/26/2026 and spread the word 🧪

This past June, C-CoMP members and alumni attended the 2026 Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference to share research about marine microbes 🦠 and their metabolites, metabolisms, and impacts on ocean processes 🌊. It was great to catch-up!

📣 🌊There are just a few more days left to apply for a C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellowship! Applications are due on 06/26/2026. Learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ Please share with your networks! 🧪

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 We are accepting applications for our 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships! If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate of a 4 year, accredited university/college and interested in ocean science 🌊, learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/! Apply by 6/26/2026 and spread the word 🧪

📣 The next two virtual Q+A sessions for the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship are tomorrow (6/17/2026) at 11 am and 3 pm ET. Register for a session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h Learn more about the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣🌊Save the Date! C-CoMP is hosting 4 virtual Q+A sessions on GatherTown about our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships this June. Register to attend an info session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h. First session is this Friday! 🧪

📣 The first virtual Q+A session for the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship is tomorrow (6/12/2026) at 2 pm ET. Register for the session (or others) here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h Learn more about the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣🌊Save the Date! C-CoMP is hosting 4 virtual Q+A sessions on GatherTown about our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships this June. Register to attend an info session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h. First session is this Friday! 🧪

📣🌊Save the Date! C-CoMP is hosting 4 virtual Q+A sessions on GatherTown about our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships this June. Register to attend an info session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h. First session is this Friday! 🧪

Happy World Oceans Day from C-CoMP 🌊! Take a moment today to reflect on the tiny yet mighty microbes 🦠 that provide and recycle life-supporting nutrients & support marine food webs, ensuring a vital and healthy ocean that we all depend on. #WorldOceansDay 🧪

A few weeks ago, our Bridge-to-PhD fellows attended the 2026 @aslo.org - @sil-limnology.bsky.social conference to present their research. 📣Are you looking for more research experience in ocean science before pursuing a PhD? Apply now to our Bridge-to-PhD fellowship program: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪

📣 Check out this new C-CoMP publication led by one of our Bridge-to-PhD fellow alums! Congrats to all authors! 🧪

Rogier Braakman@rogierbraakman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper led by Hannah Goldberg on the diversity of hydrogen peroxide detoxification in marine microbes! Wonderful @microbialplanet.bsky.social collaboration with Sonya Dyhrman, Michelle DeMers and Gwen Hennon! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣Interested, but unsure about what grad school involves? Our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowship supports the transition of individuals with undergraduate degrees who are interested in research careers in ocean science 🌊 into research-based MS and PhD programs. Learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 We are accepting applications for our 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships! If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate of a 4 year, accredited university/college and interested in ocean science 🌊, learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/! Apply by 6/26/2026 and spread the word 🧪

📣 We are accepting applications for our 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships! If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate of a 4 year, accredited university/college and interested in ocean science 🌊, learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/! Apply by 6/26/2026 and spread the word 🧪

📣 C-CoMP Publication Alert! Looking for a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that encourages development of microbiological lab skills and is based in ocean science? Check out the Ocean Genes CURE ⬇️, now published at CourseSource! tinyurl.com/3ns26j4u 🧪

📣New today: A WHOI-led study uncovers a hidden mix of molecules released by marine phytoplankton, tiny compounds that feed ocean microbes and help power the planet’s carbon cycle. 📲Learn more about this @microbialplanet.bsky.social research: go.whoi.edu/phytoplankton-metabolites

Eye in the Sky: Tiny But Mighty Plankton My interview on phytoplankton, satellite ocean color & carbon cycle 🌊 With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities podcast @uvaenvironment.bsky.social @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @microbialplanet.bsky.social withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/eye-...

Eye in the Sky - With Good Reason

The science made possible by satellites.

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So excited to share our newest paper on #marine #exometabolites. A great effort led by Yuting Zhu, Hanna Anderson, and others in the C-CoMP team www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean | PNAS

The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Ear...

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If you're at #AGU25 stop by presentations from my lab! @microbialplanet.bsky.social bridge to PhD fellow @yunqianhu.bsky.social (also w/ @akrinos.bsky.social) will be presenting a poster Wednesday "OS33B-1119: Microbial Assemblages in the Context of Basin-Scale Variability Across the North Atlantic"

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Team work makes the dream work! We asked our cruise team and they agree - team work is essential for troubleshooting and creating a positive environment for all on board 🚢, laying the groundwork for forging lasting connections that last beyond the cruise! 🧪

Scientists from @microbialplanet.bsky.social 🌊 hosted a important panel at COP30 Ocean Pavilion Advocating for the Invisible Microbial Majority That Underpins a Healthy Planet Panel ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-...

📣 Special thanks to our moderator and panelists for representing microbes 🦠 in the #oceanpavilion @cop30brazil.bsky.social in the only microbial panel at #cop30. Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @whoi.edu @climate.columbia.edu 🧪

Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @whoi.edu @climate.columbia.edu 🧪

Are you @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30 and interested in learning more about microbes 🦠 and how they impact our planet 🌎? Don't miss the panel hosted by our Director Elizabeth Kujawinski and Sonya Dyhrman @climate.columbia.edu tomorrow (Nov. 19) starting at 1:30 pm in the #OceanPavilion! 🧪

Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-... @whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social

📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-... @whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Interested in learning more about the people, samples, and research activities that were conducted on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise (@biosstation.bsky.social ➡️ @whoi.edu)? Well if you are, you are in luck! Check out our AE2504 cruise report: zenodo.org/records/1675... 🧪

📣 C-CoMP Pub Alert! Check out this new paper that investigates how bacteria control heterotrophic respiration and net community production in the Sargasso Sea 🌊. Congrats to the authors 🎉! 🧪

Scott Doney@scottdoney.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New 🌊 paper on "Bacterial Control of Metabolic Balance in the Sargasso Sea Near Bermuda: Insights From Data-Assimilative Biogeochemical Modeling" by Kim, Mao, Archibald, Terhaar, and Thomason @whoi.edu @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📣New preprint alert! Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠

Rogier Braakman@rogierbraakman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson! A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣#MTTM Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! C-CoMP focuses on microbes & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is 🌊. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving rare visits from animals🐦!

Congrats @maratimes.bsky.social!

Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)@brown-ibes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Meet the 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees! IBES will fund 6 core & affiliate faculty members to pursue scholarly projects around the world, with topics ranging from parasite identification to Indigenous-led environmental justice organizing. Mara Freilich Brown History Department Brown Biostatistics

📣#MTTM Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.