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The AMRI Roundup - Week 35 - 2021

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This week: AMRI all-hands meeting, AMRI Bioinformatics Workshop Survey, Image of the Week, Photosynthesis Congress, Baltic Sea Day, Job Announcements, Highlighted AMRI Research, This is AMRI, Week 35.

Welcome to the AMRI roundup, our weekly newsletter to keep you informed on the latest happenings in and beyond our network.

AMRI Network Announcements

SAVE THE DATE: December 2-3, AMRI all-hands meeting!

Details to follow.

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

Image of the Week

Microbiologists get the best views! Picophytoplankton sampling at Kalmar Castle. Linnaeus University https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/research-projects/project-picocyanobacteria/

Microbiologists get the best views! Picophytoplankton sampling at Kalmar Castle. Linnaeus University https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/research-projects/project-picocyanobacteria/

 

Have a beautiful microscope image to share? Sampling against a blue sky? Submit your photos and yours may be chosen as the AMRI Image of the Week!

AMRI on Instagram:

“What’s one thing I want the audience to remember about my research?”Probing questions during the Storytelling in Research workshop with Anders Sahlman (Melker Media). AMRI researches find innovative ways to construct a rich narrati
Laura (Lab manager, @linneuniversitetet ) works with Justyna (@stockholmuniversity ) on developing DNA extraction technique. Are you a microbiology researcher in Sweden? Want the chance to travel to a new city, work in a different lab and meet new co
Welcome #amrisweden to #AMRIweek! Days 1-2 our Bioinformatics Workshop. Get in gear microbial scientists of Sweden! @linneuniversitetet 🇸🇪 🦠 🧪 🧫 🧬 💻
Water sample, Baltic Sea. Bacteria and viruses 🦠 image: Karin Holmfeldt, Assoc. Professor, effect of viruses on the bacterioplankton community, @linneuniversitetet

Highlighted AMRI Research:

Featured
Burki et. al published in Current Biology's special Biodiversity Issue
Burki et. al published in Current Biology's special Biodiversity Issue

Fabien Burki et al summarise the advances on protist diversity and ecology realised by metabarcoding in the most recent issue of Current Biology, devoted to Biodiversity.

Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding,

Fabien Burki, Miguel M. Sandin, Mahwash Jamy

Open AccessDOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.066

Rapid compensatory evolution can rescue low fitness symbioses following partner switching (Current Biology)
Rapid compensatory evolution can rescue low fitness symbioses following partner switching (Current Biology)

Highlights

  • •Partner-switches show intergenomic epistasis in the Paramecium-Chlorella symbiosis

  • •Low fitness host-symbiont pairings show elevated symbiont stress metabolites

  • •Poorly performing pairings rapidly gain higher fitness by compensatory evolution

  • •Compensatory evolution could arise by either host or symbiont adaptation

Now published in ISME by Foster et al: The rate and fate of N2 and C fixation by marine diatom-diazotroph symbioses
Now published in ISME by Foster et al: The rate and fate of N2 and C fixation by marine diatom-diazotroph symbioses
New paper published in Nature Communications, Mehrshad et. al: Energy efficiency and biological interactions define the core microbiome of deep oligotrophic groundwater
Interactions in the microbial world
Interactions in the microbial world

A thesis published by AMRI member Eva Sörenson (LNU) in fall 2020 has bee featured in Havet, the publication on all of the latest marine research: https://www.havet.nu/samspel-bland-mikrober

Eva’s thesis explored the interplay of bacteria and phytoplankton in the microbial world - that they cooperate with each other instead of compete with each other.

The Long-time Orphan Protist Meringosphaera mediterranea Lohmann, 1902 [1903] is a Centrohelid Heliozoan, and other publishings from Fabien Burki et al
The Long-time Orphan Protist Meringosphaera mediterranea Lohmann, 1902 [1903] is a Centrohelid Heliozoan, and other publishings from Fabien Burki et al

New research from AMRI scientist Fabien Burki’s research group has been published this year, including a new discovery on the Meringosphaera, the enigmatic marine protist.

The Burki Lab authors:

Vasily V. Zlatogursky, Yegor Shɨshkin, Daria Drachko, Fabien Burki, Iker Irisarri, Jürgen Strassert, and Tom Williams.

Click on the Image to see the latest publishings from Burki Lab.

For more info on the Burki Lab, look here! https://www.burki-lab.net/

Burki Lab image: https://www.iob.uu.se/research/systematic-biology/burki-lab/

Stockholm and Newcastle Universities Collaborate to Find Never Before Seen Nutrient Exchanges Between Algae and Bacteria
Stockholm and Newcastle Universities Collaborate to Find Never Before Seen Nutrient Exchanges Between Algae and Bacteria

“NEVER BEFORE SEEN NUTRIENT EXCHANGES BETWEEN ALGAE AND BACTERIA.” NEW PUBLISHED STUDY FROM COLLABORATING RESEARCHERS AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY AND STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY

AMRI co-PIs Rachel Foster and Martin Whitehouse of Stockholm University have recently published a study in collaboration with researchers at Newcastle University that explores a new look on microscopic algae-bacteria interactions.

Click the title or Stockholm University logo to read more!

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Metasub - "an atlas of microorganisms"

AMRI scientists have been a part of a team of 900 international researchers that maps the “urban microbiome” of the world’s subway systems. This an atlas of microorganisms contains data from 60 different cities around the world.

Job Opportunities - Sweden

Announcements

September

  • 7th September - Call4Help session 9-11 with ScilifeLabs BioImage Informatics (BIIF). The aim is to offer combined expertise towards microscopy and bioimage analysis. All researchers from Swedish institutes can participate.

  • 22 – 24 September 2021 - Advanced Microscopy for Life Sciences – an online course of the National Microscopy Infrastructure NMI for all scientists interested in advanced microscopy: https://nmisweden.se/arkiv/4th-nmi-course-online.html

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)

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.

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

2022 OCEAN SCIENCES MEETING:

The abstract submission deadline is 29 September, 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time.

Read more here: https://osm2022.secure-platform.com/a

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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

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