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The AMRI Roundup - Week 40 - 2021

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This week:

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

AMRI Network Announcements

REGISTER TODAY FOR THE AMRI ALL-HANDS MEETING, DECEMBER 2-3

(POSTDOC DAY: DECEMBER 1)

REGISTER HERE: https://www.amri-sweden.org/amri-allhands-meeting-2021

Image of the Week

polar bear.jpg

Ok. This is not an image of a microbe. It’s a polar bear. And polar bears are awesome. Taken on the SAS-ODEN during the Arctic Expedition 2021. Read more about their researchers’ journey here: https://www.polar.se/en/news/?c=blog%20posts&t=synoptic%20arctic%20survey%202021

Got an image to share? Enter it for Image of the Week and yours may be voted on during the AMRI Image of the Year prize!

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.

Click below to view a short film on Mark Dopson et al’s research, “Consequences of climate change in a Baltic Sea bay exposed to 50 years of warming.”

Share your research!

Published a new paper? Defended your thesis? Exciting research to share? Congratulations!

AMRI wants to highlight your achievement. Fill out your new research form here:

https://www.amri-sweden.org/share-your-research

Announcements

Microbial Art:

“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
CTD rosette coming out of the water. SAS ODEN, Arctic Excursion. Photo, Christien Laber, Picophytoplankton researcher, Linnaeus University, Sweden #arctic #arcticmicrobes #sasoden #linneuniversitetet #amrisweden
Congratulations to the winner of this week’s Microbial Trivia! Our winner will go home with the glory of first place AND this lovely diatom coffee mug! #cartoonneuronbyimmysmith #internationalmicroorganismday #diatoms Stay tuned for our next fi
Light micrograph of a natural collage of local phytoplankton collected in Årstaviken (Stockholm). Imaged by Cissi Hultman, Stockholm University.  #internationalmicroorganismday #amriimageoftheweek #amri #microbe #microbialecology #sto
Microbiologists get the best views! picophytoplankton sampling near Kalmar Castle, Sweden 🇸🇪 #kalmarcastle #kalmarslott #microalgae #linneuniversitetet #internationalmicroorganismday #amrisweden #picophytoplankton
What’s your favorite microbe? #internationalmicroorganismday #amrisweden #microbiology #marineecology Image: Igor Zubkov