Microbial ecologist: phage, cyanobacteria // Assoc. prof. @ClarkUniversity // @UWOcean grad // he/him //
Worcester, MA
Joined May 2017
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Proud to announce that I was awarded an NSF CAREER grant (!) to study Fe nutrient adaptation in Synechococcus #cyanobacteria Seeking #PhD student for F25. Lab and field-based transcriptomics and physiology experiments. Dusting off my lab webpage w/ info but feel free to email me
Had a blast sharing the wonders of #cyanobacteria #phage & #MicrobialCentrism on #MattersMicrobial podcast
Also chatted about things like 3D printing, iron, photosynthesis, life in weird places, band names...
so much!
Thanks again @markowenmartin
#MicrobeTV
@ClarkUniversity
It's Thursday, so a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Nathan Ahlgren joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss marine cyanobacteria, oxygen, and the viruses that interact with them. #MicrobeTV @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology Please share!
youtu.be/vAfIUEwv6Xk?si=qYBa…
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Did you know there are more than bilayer #membranes in nature? Meet the #archaeal monolayer and its surprising mechanical properties! New #preprint! (1/7)
Thrilled to share that @B_Robicheau, postdoc in my lab, will be heading off to bigger and better things as a new tenure track professor! Congrats! 🎉
Great news!!! 🎉 Happy to announce that I'll be joining the University of Prince Edward Island's Biology Department as new Environmental Microbiologist and tenure-track Assistant Professor in May 2025! My students and I will be working on marine phytoplankton and diazotrophs🦠
ALT Photo of Synechoccocus strains taken by Clark University Photographer S. King at Rodger Williams University.
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1/6 Excited to share our latest work @UWaterloo published in @Virus_Evolution on horizontal gene transfer of a #virus gene (nblA) involved in the disassembly of phycobilisomes, cyanobacterial light-harvesting complexes: doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae082
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Excitement is building for the 12th iteration of the Aquatic Virus Workshop to be held at the fantastic Oceanologic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France during 5-9 May 2025. We have a great lineup of speakers, and a nascent website: avw12.sciencesconf.org/?lang…
Today our lab finally read the fascinating nitroplast paper. So cool! And the SXT images are amazing.
We are wondering what are the pink structure in Fig. 2B and movies? Centrosome or something similar?@kendraturk @Jonathan_Zehr
science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
The camera just loves you Manning! Front & center is Manning is the photo a masters student from my lab who graduated today!
“While this may feel like an ending, it really is just the beginning. It’s the beginning of a great adventure — the rest of your life — one that only you can define and shape,” Gary Labovich ’81, chair of Clark's Board of Trustees, told the Class of 2024. bit.ly/4awp60y
Such an honor to present @VirusesImmunity as an honorary PhD recipient at @ClarkUniversity commencement today. So impressed by her work on so many fronts. Immunology. Long COVID. Vaccine development. Representation in STEM.
Looking for postdoc in #marine #microbiology #virology? We have many avenues for phage-host research: single-cell methods, 100s of #cyano & #phage isolates, bioinf analysis of monthly & weekly time-series. Happy to sponsor application for Simons Postdoc
simonsfoundation.org/grant/s…
#OSM24 conference highlight:
Catching up with my former MA student @Katie_Crowley0, seeing her poster & thriving in PhD program at @UConnMarineSci
@ClarkUniversity @ClarkUBiology
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Boston, population 675k, has 18 city-run pools.
Worcester, population 206k, has...one.
(via @MASSterList)
ALT Take a swim in summer 2024: Boston pools will be open Last summer, Boston residents couldn't access 10 of 18 city-run public pools due to “facility issues” — issues that officials say will be mostly resolved this summer thanks to about $34M that’s been budgeted over the next few years for pool renovations and repairs, reports the Herald’s Lance Reynolds. — Boston Herald (from Massterlist)
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Trust @Jwestrob and @BanfieldLab to come up with nature's weirdest. 1/2
The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules turn bacteria into predators nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Seeing buzz about PNAS article on the problems of using PCA w/ time series and spatial data, mostly in neurobiology. Wondering how this impacts microbial datasets. @PatSchloss or others want to chime in?
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
Phantom oscillations in principal component analysis
My 1st take: don't use PCA in the 1st place on microbial, 16S rRNA data. Use PCoA, nMDS instead (e.g. see this tutorial youtube.com/watch?v=G5Qckqq5… @patschloss)
But I'm sure there are microbial community papers out there using PCA...
Anyone else want to add? I'm no expert here...
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Does everyone see that the cover of Astrobiology is...yep a bacteriophage injecting its nucleic acid into its host
Aren’t school committees meeting’s supposed to be streamed live via fb? Can’t find it there. Am I missing something? This needs to be clearly accessible/visible @worcesterpublic @TracyNovick @SueMailman
Finally some better bike infrastructure in Worcester!
FYI, evidence shows that adding bike lanes in most cases boost business and employment sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
and they improve safety for bikers and cars drivers alike
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
The City of Worcester is installing its first parking protected bike lanes on Mill St, scheduled to be completed soon!
To learn more about parking protected bike lanes, and other types of bike lanes, please visit:
worcesterma.gov/mobility/bik…
