This week: AMRI Bioinformatics Workshop Survey, Photosynthesis Congress, Baltic Sea Day, UPPMAX course, Job Announcements, Highlighted AMRI Research, This is AMRI, Week 33.
Welcome to the AMRI roundup, our weekly newsletter to keep you informed on the latest happenings in and beyond our network.
AMRI Network Announcements
Bioinformatics Survey: Please fill in here!
Some of our AMRI researchers are putting together a bioinformatics workshop to take place in the fall. We need your input! Please fill out at the above link if you’re interested, and you’ll hear more!
Share your research!
Published a new paper? Defended your thesis? Exciting research to share?
Congratulations!
We have a new page on the AMRI website with a form that you can fill out, and we will highlight your research!
Fill out your new research form here: https://www.amri-sweden.org/share-your-research
Highlighted AMRI Research:
![The Long-time Orphan Protist Meringosphaera mediterranea Lohmann, 1902 [1903] is a Centrohelid Heliozoan, and other publishings from Fabien Burki et al](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bab4e38b7c92ce336502225/1622627177140-ULR9DYKMUU2AYA7VLDM7/burki+lab+image.png)
Announcements
August:
Dyrssen Award
Baltic Sea Day deadline for abstracts
Webinar: Healthy coastal ecosystems are crucial to mitigate climate change
September:
Askö Laboratory 60 year celebration (registration closed)
UPPMAX course (registration closed)
October:
15th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress
7th Edition of Ramon Margalef Colloquia: “A cross-system view of the biological carbon cycle in the anthropocene”, to be held online from the 5th to the 8th of October 2021
November:
Marine Research Day 2021
AMRI All-Hands Meeting (stay tuned for more information)
Details on all announcements below!…
The Dyrssen Award 2021
Nominate master students by August 21st!
Master theses in the marine field that have been approved between July 1st 2020 and June 30th 2021 are eligible for nomination to the 2021 Dyrssen award. The project must be within a marine science discipline and examined at a Swedish university. The authors of two theses receive a cash prize and are invited to speak at the Marine Science Conference. Cash prizes are 10.000 SEK for first prize and 5.000 SEK for second prize.
The Dyrssen award is managed and awarded by the SHF. The award honors David Dyrssen (1922 - 2011), emeritus professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Gothenburg. As one of the founding members of the SHF, he spent his career being an active proponent for the promotion of trans-disciplinary research inmarine sciences.
We accept nominations for the 2021 Dyrssen award until August 21st. For information about nominations to the Dyrssen award please visit our website or contact dyrssen@shf.se.
General information about SHF is found on the web.
Best wishes from the board of the Swedish Society for Marine Sciences!
Baltic Sea Day - Call for abstracts
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 30TH AUGUST 2021
7 October, 09:00-16:00
Campus Frescati & Zoom
(depending on rules and recommendations by Swedish authorities)
At Stockholm University researchers have studied the Baltic Sea and its challenges in diverse disciplines for more than six decades. The majority focus on scientific issues that are important for a better understanding and management of the Baltic Sea and its catchment area, and several research fields are considered world leading. The Baltic Sea Day highlights frontier science on our unique sea by showcasing this broad set of expertise at the university.
Image: Stockholm University, Baltic Sea Center
Webinar: Healthy coastal ecosystems are crucial to mitigate climate change - 26 August
The coastal zones are among the most effective areas on Earth at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. Treated right, these ecosystems are important cornerstones in climate change mitigation, but if degraded, they instead release large amounts of greenhouse gases, re-enforcing global warming. What is the situation for these ecosystems in the Baltic Sea? Are they threatened? Can they be restored? And how well is blue carbon implemented in climate mitigation policies?
Date: 26 August 2021, 8:30-9:15 (Local time in Sweden)
The webinar is broadcast at su.se/ostersjocentrum/balticbreakfast
No registration is needed.
Speakers:
Florian Roth, PhD in Marine Science, Post Doc at Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre and Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki
Camilla Gustafsson, PhD in Marine Biology, University researcher at Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki
Welcome to a webinar on the role of coastal ecosystems for climate mitigation!
Questions and discussion
We highly welcome the audience to ask questions, in advance or during the webinar.
E-mail your question to ostersjocentrum@su.se
Write your question on Sli.do using the code #22102
Discuss the topic on Twitter, using the hashtag #balticbreakfast
Photo: Mats Westerbom/Metsähallitus
UPPMAX biannual introductory course - an excellent opportunity for new users and or users wishing to learn about the UPPMAX computing environment
Online training course: "UPPMAX Introductory Course", Uppsala, 24-27, 30-31 August and 2-3 September, 2021
This 8 half-days course provides an introduction to the high-performance computing (HPC) environment offered at UPPMAX. It offers an overview on how the systems work and covers skills from basic Linux usage to more advanced tips and tricks, including Python scripting.
Registration for August/September course is closed - New course will be offered in January 2022. Keep an eye out for announcement!
15th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress
Photosynthesis Congress - October 5-8 - Gothenburg
The Nordic Photosynthesis Congress will take place in Gothenburg, as originally planned, on Oct 5-8. The meeting will be in person, and the registration is open at http://www.npc15.se.
Students and postdocs are especially encouraged to apply, and more than 20 talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts.
12 confirmed invited speakers - see poster above for details!
The meeting will cover the following fields:
- Metabolic engineering of carbon fixation
- Structure and function of photosynthetic complexes
- Novel methods to study photosynthesis
- Regulation of photosynthesis
- Artificial photosynthesis and hybrid systems
7th Edition of Ramon Margalef Colloquia: “A cross-system view of the biological carbon cycle in the anthropocene”, to be held online from the 5th to the 8th of October 2021.
The Colloquium is addressed to recent PhDs and advanced graduate students and it will be an excellent opportunity to foster collective learning through discussions on the analogies and disparities concerning the ecology and biogeochemical functioning of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us at ramonmargalefcolloquia@sibecol.org.
Best regards,
The Ramon Margalef Colloquia 2021 Organizers
Marine Research Day 2021
Tuesday November 23rd and Wednesday November 24th
Mixed digital and physical meeting
We welcome everyone who is engaged and interested in marine sciences, management and environmental monitoring to this conference on the SEA! The meeting focuses on current aspects of research, management and environmental monitoring in marine systems. The theme of the conference will relate to salinity gradients along the Swedish coastal zone, from the Bothnian Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, to the Kattegat and Skagerrak. In addition to oral presentations and poster presentations, there will be room for networking.
Due to the current pandemic, the meeting will mainly be arranged digitally via Zoom. Closely following the development during Summer and Fall, there may also be openings and limited opportunities to participate on site (Wallenberg Conference Center, Gothenburg). Additional meeting information and details for registration will be sent out after the Summer vacations.
If you want to contribute with a presentation or show a poster at the conference, please feel free to already now submit an expression of interest together with a tentative title to styrelsen@shf.se.
WARM WELCOME
The board of the Swedish Society for Marine Sciences
EMBL Courses - some incredible opportunities! Read more here: https://mailchi.mp/embl.de/all_virtual_events_aug21?e=4fd8011993
Job Announcements Abroad:
Group Leader in Neural Regeneration/Organ Engineering and Synthetic BiologyMonash University Australia
Professorships in Molecular Organismal Biology Heidelberg University Faculty of Biosciences Germany
Full Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Wageningen University Netherlands
Professor in Plant Molecular Biology Nagoya University Graduate School of Science Japan
Assistant Professor in Microbiology, Health, and Disease Yale University Yale Microbial Sciences Institute United States
Lectureship in Microbiology University College Cork School of Microbiology Ireland
Lecturer in Plant-Microbe Interactions University of Cambridge United Kingdom
Research Officer in Microbiology University of Hong Kong Department of Microbiology Hong Kong
Research Assistant in Molecular Biology University of Zurich Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Switzerland
Researcher in Gene Technology and Computational Biology Royal Institute of Technology School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health Sweden
PhD Fellowship in RNA Biology and Co-Transcriptional Processing University of Copenhagen Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Denmark
Postdoc to join research group (https://mpolin.com) on an exciting interdisciplinary project looking at the biophysics of sexual mating in yeast.
This is a 4-groups project with three other teams in Italy, USA and Australia. The position will initially be for 2y with the possibility of extending it by 1 more year. The work is based at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA UIB-CSIC, Mallorca, Spain), where the PDRA will join a dynamic interdisciplinary environment.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background on experimental microbial biophysics (e.g. light microscopy, microfluidics, image analysis, particle tracking) and the ability to build new setups and improve existing ones. They will be strongly motivated and independent. Previous experience in numerical simulations and mathematical modelling will be a plus.
Application deadline: Aug 31st
Starting date (negotiable): Nov 1st
For more informations please see the following link
https://www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-details.aspx?jobcode=9818
Feel free to get in touch for an informal chat (mpolin@imedea.uib-csic.es)
Contact: Marco Polin. INFIBIO, Physico-Biological Interactions in the Ocean Research group
http://imedea.uib-csic.es/infibio/
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC)