Marine ecologist with a passion for seaweed diversity & evolution. Postdoc @PhycologyUgent @vrsofie.bsky.social
Ghent, Belgium
Joined June 2015
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Excited to share the Phaeoexplorer paper out today in Cell: Evolutionary genomics of the emergence of brown algae as key components of coastal ecosystems! 🌊 Including the genome of Dictyota dichotoma and many more! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.… #Seaweed
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*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.
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What is your favorite latest genome assembler that uses Illumina reads? I want to see what people are doing these days, please retweet 🙏
#genomics #Illumina #bioinformatics
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Why are the impacts of #climatechange so variable? Excited to share our new review paper in @GlobalChangeBio which explores the role of local environmental variation in mediating the impacts of extreme marine heatwaves
@UWAresearch @ForrestResearch
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📣 PhD students wanted: Future-proofing seaweeds on the #greatsouthernreef 🥬 Lead meaningful research in a global biodiversity hotspot 🐠🏄♀️🌊 Email me CV and letter of motivation or get in touch for more info
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Global #seaweed forests export 56 million tonnes of carbon (15% of their production) to the deep ocean annually. These biodiverse #blueforests are overlooked in the global ocean #carbon budget. We provide national estimates of this C #sink rdcu.be/dIKup @NatureGeosci
Looking for a PhD and interested in #GeneEditing #seaweeds? Take this opportunity and come and join our lab! 👇 🌊🧬
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How effective are #MPAs for conserving #kelp #forests? Our perspective shows they can help with some drivers of loss like grazing, but often fail to protect against ocean warming and coastal darkening - 2 main reasons we are losing kelp forests globally! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13446
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Just out: our Mini Review on Genome Editing in Macroalgae.
We examine the current state and challenges of genome editing in #seaweeds. We tried to chart a way forward and discuss #applications.
I hope we can inspire some phycologists!
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
#crispr
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Can seaweed farming lead to climate change mitigation?🌿🌊Seaweed farming is increasingly considered as an important strategy for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). But how much carbon do seaweed farms currently remove? Let's unravel the findings! 🧵👇 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Interesting read @NatureClimate
@Masashi_Soga & @KevinJGaston
Extinction of experience due to climate change
nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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Very happy to announce the release of my newest manuscript with Katie Lotterhos @Northeastern ! (1 / n)
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Super happy about exciting experiments ongoing with our young #Palmaria @PhycologyUgent & @eleichix,
@BLUEGent_
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Underwater rivers export up to 50% of #kelp #carbon from shallow reefs to deep ocean, with potential for #sequestration. Our new paper shows dense shelf water transport is a major mechanism for kelp export off Australia's #GreatSouthernReef and elsewhere! doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-5…
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Just how important is intra-specific diversity for ecosystem functioning?
Our paper showing how to figure out is now published in @ESAEcology #OpenAccess
"Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning"
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
📢New paper led by @LunavanderLoos @PhycologyUgent Non-indigenous #seaweeds in European Waters🌊🌱
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An beautiful #Ulva animation made by #SeaWheat #COST action [in a lot of languages].
app.frame.io/presentations/a…
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CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Giant Kelp: Thermal Tolerance and Genomics
jobs.csiro.au/job/Hobart%2C-…
Great opportunity to work with great minds 👇! One day left to apply!
📢POSTDOC POSITION (3 yrs): #kelp forests, #climatechange and #marineheatwaves. Come work with me, @Filbeek, @MelindaAColeman, @GeorgeValentin_ and our superb 🇳🇴🇩🇰 colleagues @Havforskningen. Field work, experiments, international collaboration and more
jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
