In the austral summer season of December 2017 – February 2018, MIT CBIOMES member Deepa Rao, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, participated in the NSF funded CICLOPS cruise to explore cobalamin and iron co-limitation of phytoplankton species in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. Continue reading “Antarctic Marine Microbes Need Their Multivitamins”
Sea Life You Can’t See: CBIOMES contributes to SF anniversary volume
Look for CBIOMES-flavored eye-candy in a new book celebrating the Simons Foundation’s first 25 years supporting discovery-driven science. Continue reading “Sea Life You Can’t See: CBIOMES contributes to SF anniversary volume”
Seeding Oceans With Iron May Not Impact Climate Change
Study involving members of MIT-CBIOMES finds Earth’s oceans contain just the right amount of iron; adding more may not improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Continue reading “Seeding Oceans With Iron May Not Impact Climate Change”
Marine Microbial Musings
CBIOMES Investigator Joe Vallino Speaks to the Finding Genius Podcast Team about marine microorganisms, ocean chemistry, and thermodynamics Continue reading “Marine Microbial Musings”
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
In a new paper, MIT-CBIOMES investigator Stephanie Dutkiewicz and collaborators use the Darwin ecosystem model to develop theories seeking to explain and predict phytoplankton biogeography.
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February 2020 CBCBIOMES e-meeting – Julio Cesar Ignacio Espinoza (USC-Fuhrman)
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February 2020 CBIOMES e-meeting – Zhen Wu (MIT)
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NEW CBIOMES PUBLICATION
Jie Ren, Kai Song, Chao Deng, Nathan A. Ahlgren, Jed A. Fuhrman, Yi Li, Xiaohui Xie, Ryan Poplin & Fengzhu Sun (2020), Identifying viruses from metagenomic data using deep learning, Quantitative Biology, doi: 10.1007/s40484-019-0187-4
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NEW CBIOMES PUBLICATION
C. Mutshinda, C. Widdicombe, Z.V. Finkel, A.J. Irwin (2019), Bayesian inference to partition determinants of community dynamics from observational time series, Community Ecology, doi: 10.1556/168.2019.20.3.4
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Joint Simons Marine Collaboration Videoconference Schedule
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