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The AMRI Roundup: Week 8, 2022

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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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Highlighted AMRI Research

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Perspective paper: Functional responses of key marine bacteria to environmental change – toward genetic counselling for coastal waters
Perspective paper: Functional responses of key marine bacteria to environmental change – toward genetic counselling for coastal waters

Pinhassi J, Farnelid H, García SM, Teira E, Galand PE, Obernosterer I, Quince C, Vila-Costa M, Gasol JM, Lundin D, Andersson AF, Labrenz M and Riemann L (2022) Functional responses of key marine bacteria to environmental change – toward genetic counselling for coastal waters. 

Front. Microbiol. 13:869093. 

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.869093 

Image: Pinhassi, 2022

3.76 million Crowns VR grant awarded to AMRI PIs Karin Homfeldt (project leader), Rachel Foster (co-investigator) for new research project investigating aquatic viruses in microbial communities
3.76 million Crowns VR grant awarded to AMRI PIs Karin Homfeldt (project leader), Rachel Foster (co-investigator) for new research project investigating aquatic viruses in microbial communities

Congratulations to AMRI PIs Karin Holmfeldt (project leader) and Rachel Foster (co-investigator) for their VR grant funding new project, “From cultures to communities – Virus-mediated functionality changes among aquatic bacteria.”

Terrigenous dissolved organic matter persists in the energy-limited deep groundwaters of the Fennoscandian Shield
Terrigenous dissolved organic matter persists in the energy-limited deep groundwaters of the Fennoscandian Shield

Congratulations to AMRI Co-PI Mark Dopson and co-authors on their publishing of Terrigenous dissolved organic matter persists in the energy-limited deep groundwaters of the Fennoscandian Shield in Nature Communications!

"The Baltic Sea from the present to future - microbial carbon and nutrient cycling in a changing climate,"Laura Seidel - Phd Thesis
"The Baltic Sea from the present to future - microbial carbon and nutrient cycling in a changing climate,"Laura Seidel - Phd Thesis

Congratulations to LNU doctoral candidate Laura Seidel, who defended her thesis “The Baltic Sea from the present to future - microbial carbon and nutrient cycling in a changing climate.”

Read the thesis here

Microalgal solutions in Nordic conditions – industries transition toward resource recovery
Microalgal solutions in Nordic conditions – industries transition toward resource recovery

Congratulations to AMRI PhD student Lina Mattsson, who has just earned her doctorate defending her thesis, “Microalgal solutions in Nordic conditions – industries transition toward resource recovery?”

Frontiers, 09 May 2022: Seasonal and Spatial Variations in Synechococcus Abundance and Diversity Throughout the Gullmar Fjord, Swedish Skagerrak
Frontiers, 09 May 2022: Seasonal and Spatial Variations in Synechococcus Abundance and Diversity Throughout the Gullmar Fjord, Swedish Skagerrak

Authors: Christien P. Laber, Benjamin Pontiller, Carina Bunse, Christofer M. G. Osbeck, Clara Pérez-Martínez1, Danilo Di Leo, Daniel Lundin, Catherine Legrand, Jarone Pinhassi1 and Hanna Farnelid

Link to article

Image caption in blog post.

C-ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death in cyanobacteria
C-ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death in cyanobacteria

Congratulations to AMRI postdoc Anabella Aguilera (LNU) for publishing C-ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death in cyanobacteria in the Journal of Cell Biology (7th February). Do you want to hear Anabella talk about this paper? You’re in luck. She’ll be speaking about it next week in the online seminar series Cyanoworld next week!, April 14th!

Growth-stage-related shifts in diatom endometabolome composition set the stage for bacterial heterotrophy
Growth-stage-related shifts in diatom endometabolome composition set the stage for bacterial heterotrophy

Congratulations to AMRI researcher Malin Olofsson for publishing in ISME communications on 30th March. The article comes from Malin’s postdoc work in Athens, GA (USA), where she and colleagues investigated how different growth stages of diatoms affect the composition of carbon and which are taken up by surrounding bacteria.

Weakened resilience of benthic microbial communities in the face of climate change
Weakened resilience of benthic microbial communities in the face of climate change

Read this recently published article in ISME Communications from AMRI researchers Laura Seidel, Mark Dopson (et. al), which examined benthic microbial communities in a naturally heated Swedish bay outside of the Oskarshamn power plant. The study is a fascinating and rare opportunity to study climate change scenarios in Baltic Sea water that has been naturally warmed for over 50 years.

Seidel L., Ketzer M., Broman E., Shahabi-Ghahfarokhi S., Rahmati-Abkenar M., Turner S., Ståhle M., Bergström K., Manoharan L., Ali A., Forsman A., Hylander S., Dopson M. Weakened resilience of benthic microbial communities in the face of climate change.

Temporal escape - adaptation to eutrophication by Skeletonema marinoi 
Temporal escape - adaptation to eutrophication by Skeletonema marinoi 

FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnac011, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnac011

Published: 08 February 2022

AMRI Researchers Malin Olofsson, Anna-Karin Almén, Kim Jaatinen, Matias Scheinin

read about Science around the globe 🌎 💙 🌏

Empowerment, gender equality and science:

EDITORIAL From NATURE: Female scientists in Africa are changing the face of their continent

Why international researchers should be lining up to collaborate with women working in science across Africa.

Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00492-x

22 February 2022.

Photos: Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Aster Tsgaye, Veronica Okello, Khady Shall. All African scientists working to change the face of STEM across the continent.

(Photo credits from left: African Population and Health Research Centre, Maheder Haileselassie for Nature, Esther Sweeney for Nature, Ricci Shryock for Nature)

Announcements:

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Welcome to ISME18
Welcome to ISME18

18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology

14-19 August 2022
Lausanne, Switzerland

#ISME18

Abstract submission now open! Deadline March 11th

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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!

Job opportunities:

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