Category Archives: Marine Microbiology Initiative

Congratulations to Dr. Mariana Rius, Ph.D.!

Mariana did a terrific job defending her dissertation

Evolutionary origins, regulation, and function of carotenoid biosynthesis in the marine heterotrophic eukaryote, Aurantiochytrium limacinum

this January*, and has cool papers coming out soon.

I’m happy to have her staying as a postdoc in the lab for a few months, and then am eager to see where she lands next. Way to go, Mariana!

*I’m much less late with this one than with Kylie’s. But still some catching up to do!

 

Postdoctoral Opportunity! – filled but contact me if you’d like to write proposals

The Collier Lab is looking for a postdoctoral scholar, preferably with experience in genetic engineering of a model organism, to help develop new genome editing tools for the thraustochytrid Aurantiochytrium. Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Experimental Model Systems initiative.

https://www.somas.stonybrook.edu/2018/11/07/postdoctoral-associate-1803048/

 

 

Coming Soon in PLOS Biology

A nifty little paper describing the unique – and really fun and productive – model of collaborative science I’ve been privileged to experience as part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Marine Microbiology Initiative Experimental Model Systems program.

@PLOSBiology @MooreFound @TN_Marine_Micro @SoMAS_SBU

https://twitter.com/PLOSBiology/status/1014106731734069248