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The AMRI Roundup: Week 11, 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.

AMRI in the News

Congratulations to Fabien Burki for being one of 313 researchers chosen for the European Research Council consolidator grants. Fabien’s project, PlastidOrigin, will test “the paradigm of a single plastid origin in eukaryotes.” Congratulations, Fabien!

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.”

SciLifeLab highlights AMRI researchers Mahwash Jamy, Fabien Burki, Sari Peura et al for "Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life"
SciLifeLab highlights AMRI researchers Mahwash Jamy, Fabien Burki, Sari Peura et al for "Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life"

Congratulations to AMRI researchers Mahwash Jamy, Fabien Burki, Sari Peura et al for publishing Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Image: SciLifeLab

Announcements:

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All-Hands Meeting - Planetary Biology at SciLifeLab!
All-Hands Meeting - Planetary Biology at SciLifeLab!

Important information

·  Free of charge conference!

·  When? September 17-18, 2024

·  Where? Europasalen, Konferenscentrum Wallenberg, Gothenburg

·  Deadline to submit abstracts: 16th August

·  Deadline for registration: 1st September

FOUR Jobs: Eawag Switzerland. Four Climate Change Adaptation
FOUR Jobs: Eawag Switzerland. Four Climate Change Adaptation

Deadline: 31st May


The detailed announcement of this cluster hire and the application links
can be found here: https://apply.refline.ch/673277/1169/pub/1/index.html

6--8 PhD positions in graduate school towards data-intensive sciences
6--8 PhD positions in graduate school towards data-intensive sciences

Deadline: June 10th

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Job opportunities:

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