News

Jeannie and Rika at the UROP Symposium next Saturday

May 16, 2013

Join us to the UCI Student Center next Saturday, May 18th, for the UROP Symposium.

Jeannie’s presentation is scheduled for Oral Session I at 9:10am in the Doheny Beach D of the UCI Student Center. The title of her talk is 'Temporal Variability in Oceanic Nutrient Ratios along the Southern California Coast'.

Rika is going to present her poster 'Stoichiometrical Variability within Phyla of Soil Bacteria' between 1:30pm and  2:50pm.

See you there!

Celine

Steve H's time-series paper accepted in Ecology

May 3, 2013

Hi,

Steve Hatosy's paper describing the temporal biogeography of marine microorganisms was accepted today in the journal Ecology.

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/12-2125.1

Please join me in congratulating Steve for a job well done.

Adam

Congratulations to Sara Freitas

April 8, 2013

Sara, a former undergraduate student in our lab will be joining Dr. Regan's lab at UC Riverside as a PhD student next fall in the department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. She also received a Chancellor's fellowship for her PhD. Please join me in congratulating Sara! 

Cecilia

 

Fellowship bonanza

March 31, 2013

Hi,

What an amazing month!!! Cecilia got a BioSci dissertation fellowship, Alyssa Kent got a NSF graduate fellowship, and Nathan Garcia got a UCI Advance post doctoral fellowship and will likely join the lab this summer.

You may remember that Nathan visited last year and gave a whiteboard presentation about co-limitation of phytoplankton.

A big congratulations to all three!!!!

Adam

Congratulations to Cecilia for BioSci dissertation fellowship

March 22, 2013

A big congratulations to Cecilia for being awarded a BioSci dissertation fellowship!

Global Elemental stoichiometry paper out (and mentioned in LA Times)

March 18, 2013

Hi - here is the link to the paper about the global variation in elemental ratios

http://ps.uci.edu/scholar/amartiny/files/martiny_natgeo2013.pdf

The study was also picked up in LA Times:

http://soa.li/uh7BwtJ

 

congratulations to Alyssa for being admitted to C-MORE course

March 12, 2013

Please join me in congratulating Alyssa for being accepted to the C-MORE summer course in Microbial Oceanography. This is a five week long summer course at the University of Hawaii.

http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu/summercourse/index.htm

Global variation in C:N:P ratios in ocean communities study accepted in Nature Geoscience

January 17, 2013

Hi,

Great news! Our paper describing the global distribution of C:N:P ratios was accepted in Nature Geoscience today. What a relief....

The authors are: myself, Chau, Keith Moore, Francois Primeau, Jasper Vrugt, Simon Levin, and Mike Lomas.

Another consenTRAIT study is out in ISME Journal

January 16, 2013

Amy Zimmerman's paper about the phylogenetic distribution and conservatism of enzymes genes is out in ISME Journal. This is a very nice study and I encourage you all to read the paper.

http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej2012176a.html

Adam

Undergraduate fellowships to Jeanette and Kinshuk

January 16, 2013

Once again, undergraduate students from our lab were awarded UROP fellowships. So a big congratulations to Kinshuk and Jeanette...Keep up the great work,

Adam

Congratulations to Renaud for paper accepted

December 18, 2012

A big congratulations to Renaud for getting his paper about the phylogenetic distribution of glycoside hydrolases accepted in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The paper is very nice and I encourage you to check it out.

http://aem.asm.org/content/early/2012/12/14/AEM.03305-12.abstract

Adam

consenTRAIT paper is out!

December 13, 2012

Hi,

The consenTRAIT paper was published in ISME J today.

You can find it here.

There will soon be two other studies using this approach coming out. This includes Amy's paper about the phylogenetic distribution of extracellular enzyme traits (ISME J.) and Reanud's paper about glycoside hydrolases (in AEM). You should check out all the papers.

Adam

Cecilia guest lectures at University of Texas, Austin

November 27, 2012

Cecilia will be giving a talk November 29th at University of Texas, Austin for a graduate level course on 'Advanced Topics in Microbial Ecology' taught by Dr. Christina Hawkes. She will discuss next-generation sequencing and its applications to microbial ecology, particularly using her research as a case study. 

Paper describing the latitudinal variation in plankton biodiversity is out

November 13, 2012

Anthony Amend's paper describing the variation in plankton diversity and species range is now out in Journal of Biogeography. The project is part of the "International Census of Marine Microbes" or ICOMM. It is a great paper that I encourage everyone to read.

http://ps.uci.edu/scholar/amartiny/files/amend_jbio_2012.pdf

Adam

Steve Allison and Jennifer's paper about the litter reciprocal transplant experiment is accepted in Ecology

October 26, 2012

Steve Allison and Jennifer's paper about the litter reciprocal transplant experiment was accepted in Ecology yesterday. A big congratulations to everyone in Microbial Group that participated in this study. And we look forward to see Renaud's follow-up study on the metagenomic changes in this experiment.