Debashish Bhattacharya

The start of an exciting project with our many collaborators on converting waste Sargassum seaweed into bioproducts of value. The work is funded by Schmidt Sciences and is described here: rutgers.edu/news/scientists-…

Who doesn't love a beach retreat? dblab folks @CouchMicroscopy @timstep1383 @ChilleErin @ShriniNandi @g_panayotakis @KaseyH210 take a break after discussing future projects. Happy Labor Day Weekend everyone!

Congratulations to @ChilleErin for her paper on why genotype matters when studying coral stress responses (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…). You can hear the live version at @Evol_mtg. Congrats also to co-authors @timstep1383 Deeksha Misri @EmmaStrand4 and @HolliePutnam

What a pleasure to have Hwan Su Yoon from Sungkyunkwan University in S. Korea visiting us in New Jersey. His group is doing path-breaking, creative algal research. Our long-term collaboration has always been joyful and spirited.

Happy to have contributed to this excellent paper by @KEdougan in the group of @dorkyM that provides a model of how whole-genome duplication shaped evolution of the heat-tolerant coral algal symbiont, Durusdinium (science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…). Algae rock! Great work everyone.

We have an opening in my lab for a postdoc with expertise in algal/seaweed biotechnology, in particular, metabolic engineering and carbohydrate biochemistry, with some bioinformatics training. Email me at [email protected], if this fits your background and aspirations

Our heartfelt thanks to collaborators at the Marine Innovation Hub and Fundemar (@Fundemardr) in the Dominican Republic for organizing our recent research visit and building an exciting coral reef conservation program together. We had a great time! @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNB

This paper was a lot of hard work, but worth it. We start to learn how Paulinella meets its CO2 needs in the chromatophore (enviromicro-journals.onlinel…). Congratulations Arwa G, @timstep1383 @JohnReinfelder @VickieCalatrava and Arthur G. @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNJAES @carnegiescience

Congratulations Dr. Van Etten! An exciting future awaits. You have made your family and friends proud. @CouchMicroscopy @RutgersSEBS @NASA @RutgersNJAES @NSF

An illustrated guide to building a career in astrobiology, courtesy of NASA (astrobiology.nasa.gov/upload…). An easy and inspiring read for all. @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNJAES @NASA @RutgersU_News @LFelipeB @CouchMicroscopy

A nice description in Science magazine by Liz Pennisi of the major results from our paper (@LFelipeB @timstep1383 @CouchMicroscopy @jgi) on Yellowstone National Park viruses can be found here, science.org/content/article/… (@RutgersSEBS @RutgersU_News @PSAAlgae @RutgersNJAES)