The 2025 CBIOMES Annual Meeting brought together nearly sixty collaborators at the Simons Foundation in New York City, June 16 – 18, for three days of face-to-face connection, scientific exchange, and collaborative momentum. Continue reading “CBIOMES ’25”
Congratulations to Bror Jönsson on becoming a CBIOMES Scholar
Through the CBIOMES Scholar program, the collaboration’s Steering Committee supports former CBIOMES postdocs as they transition into junior faculty roles and begin building research groups of their own.
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Satellite Eyes on Swirling Seas
MIT researchers reveal how ocean eddies shape chlorophyll patterns across seasons and regions.
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Jacob Bien Honored as ASA Fellow
Congratulations to Jacob Bien for his recent award.
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Counting Ocean Microbes, One Genome at a Time
New metagenomic method from the Fuhrman Lab illuminates ocean microbial life in unprecedented detail. Continue reading “Counting Ocean Microbes, One Genome at a Time”
Am I Blue? Green? Something in Between?
Tiny organisms can adapt to changing light, much to our benefit: Enjoy this NASA Storymap inspired by Mattei et al (2025) Continue reading “Am I Blue? Green? Something in Between?”
NEW CBIOMES PUBLICATION
Qicheng Bei, Nathan L. R. Williams, Laura E. Furtado, Daria Di Blasi, Jelani Williams, Vanda Brotas, Glen Tarran, Andrew P. Rees, Chris Bowler, Jed A. Fuhrman (2025), Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf131
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NEW CBIOMES PUBLICATION
Jones-Kellett, A. E. and Follows, M. J. (2025), The satellite chlorophyll signature of Lagrangian eddy trapping varies regionally and seasonally within a subtropical gyre, Ocean Sci., doi: 10.5194/os-21-1141-2025
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NEW CBIOMES PUBLICATION
Crispin M. Mutshinda, Zoe V. Finkel, and Andrew J. Irwin (2025), Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades, PLOS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323675
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New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle
In a cross-collaboration, multiple Simons Foundation-funded researchers team up to use genetic data and ecosystem modeling to simplify the complexity of marine microbes to improve climate predictions.
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