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The AMRI Roundup - Week 41 - 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.

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Image of the Week

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It’s a picoparty! Alcian blue staining of pico-cyanobacterial by Jorun Kugelberg, bachelors program Stockholm University working with the Foster Lab.

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:

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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.

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

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NordSIMS VegaCenter Proposal Call 2024
NordSIMS VegaCenter Proposal Call 2024

Deadline October 2023

Applications are invited for analytical time at NordSIMS-Vegacenter, a Swedish Research

Council supported national infrastructure for microanalysis and imaging in the Earth,

environmental and planetary sciences that comprises the NordSIMS ion microprobe facility

and the Vegacenter facility for (LA-)ICP-MS. Applications are particularly encouraged from

members of under-represented and historically disadvantaged groups.

Remember to register for SciLifeLab Science Summit; Genomics of Biodiversity and Evolution, Sept 20, Aula Magna, Stockholm
Remember to register for SciLifeLab Science Summit; Genomics of Biodiversity and Evolution, Sept 20, Aula Magna, Stockholm

https://www.scilifelab.se/event/scilifelab-science-summit-2023/

Deadline to register: September 6

Event date: September 20th

SciLifeLab Day - Linköping - October 10th
SciLifeLab Day - Linköping - October 10th

SciLifeLab Linköping

View Organizer Website

AMRI Week: Big Data Seminar & AMRI All Hands Meeting - November 8-9-10
AMRI Week: Big Data Seminar & AMRI All Hands Meeting - November 8-9-10

Save the date for AMRI Week!

November 8th - AMRI All Hands Meeting

November 9th - 10th - Big Data Workshop, organized by AMRI PI Maliheh Mehrshad et al.

Our final AMRI Week will take place this year in Uppsala (please note location change).

Registration link to follow!

Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW2023) | Save the dates: 6th-7th November 2023
Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW2023) | Save the dates: 6th-7th November 2023

The conference website and a preliminary program is available at http://sbw2023.eu/

November 6-7 Stockholm

Invitation to contribute: "Mechanisms and Ecology of Suspended-Particle Capture in Marine Systems".
Invitation to contribute: "Mechanisms and Ecology of Suspended-Particle Capture in Marine Systems".

Invitation to contribute: "Mechanisms and Ecology of Suspended-Particle Capture in Marine Systems".

www.physicalecologylab.org

NanoSIMS workshop 2023 in Gothenburg
NanoSIMS workshop 2023 in Gothenburg

Date: October 16-18

Time: 09:00

Gothenburg

Please visit the webpage for more information about the meeting: https://nanosims.se

Early birth registration is open from now until June 30. 

Deadline for abstract submission is August 1.

Shining a light into the deep, dark subsurface... a seminar with AMRI Professor Mark Dopson
Shining a light into the deep, dark subsurface... a seminar with AMRI Professor Mark Dopson

Welcome to a lecture in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences seminar series.

Mark Dopson, professor, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University

"Shining a light into the deep, dark subsurface"

Free webinar on lignin, polyphenol and phenoloxidase
Free webinar on lignin, polyphenol and phenoloxidase

Time: May 11th, 14.00

Register at https://physiologiaplantarum.org/

Webinar focusing on lignins, polyphenolics and phenoloxidases - together these phenolic molecules constitute the second most abundant biopolymer on the planet where 20-30% of the C is stored. There are several talks with great speakers (Igor Cesarino, Wout Boerjan, Jorge Rencoret, Jose del Rio, Anna Happonen and others), the event is organised as a semi-live event so that webinar talks are readily available and registration is free.

Marine Research Days 2023
Marine Research Days 2023

21-23 November in Umeå

Save the dates!

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