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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 21d

Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Full Text available from lab website: www.micolab-usf.com/Publications...

MICOlab-USF - Publications

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#microbialsky

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · Feb 23

*Every single headline* about a scientific/medical advance right now should include the funding source

I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jan 17

What’s the yellow spot(s)?

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jan 16

MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · Jan 1

Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 22

I bought this for my husband for Xmas!!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 20

Ha this is so timely. Seconded.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 19

That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 17

Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 15

I am so proud of my Xmas and oyster-loving PhD student Olivia for putting on a super fun and successful outreach event “VOGS and EggNog” yesterday - VOG are vertical oyster gardens and participants built over 600 VOGs for her dissertation project!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 6

github.com/epi2me-labs/...

GitHub - epi2me-labs/wf-metagenomics: Metagenomic classification of long-read sequencing data

Metagenomic classification of long-read sequencing data - epi2me-labs/wf-metagenomics

github.com

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 6

I have been using one in epitome that has been working decently, but too some tuning.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 6

Our happy little coffee shop on campus reopened this week after being severely damaged (underwater) in hurricane Helene. Our weekly writing group met there, and meeting there again today felt like a big step in “getting back to normal.” I remain fascinated by extreme storms, but that was a semester.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oh I am saving this for when I teach about Reynolds numbers again next year!!!!amazing video!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Nov 29

Happy thanksgiving science sky! This is my favorite holiday because it’s the only one that it is super acceptable to pressure your fam to run with you :)

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Michael Henson, Ph.D. @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social · Nov 8

The @jcamthrash.bsky.social lab is hiring a technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of their research. Join a lab pushing the boundaries and working with amazing organism. Also a great crew of ppl. 🌊🦠🧫 #Microsky #biotechniology

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Research Lab Technician II at USC

Learn more about applying for Research Lab Technician II at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today was my first day teaching as an assistant professor and it is the first time I really felt like a (new) professor. I built the lab and mentored grad students last year but still kind of felt like a postdoc. Today was one of those very special memorable days 😍☺️🌊🪸🦠

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Jul 20

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines

Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups

And we are but human & we want tiny cup

A hand holding four shrunken styrofoam cups the size of shot glasses. Two with jellyfish colored on them and two with black and white lines

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Jun 14

Come visit Jean Lim and Aly Rogers at their poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 today! #ASMicrobe 🦠 #USFCMS

Undergraduate Aly Rogers posing in front of a poster entitled “RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in the coastal waters of Southwest Florida”

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jun 12

My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jun 12

My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jun 9

tldr 2/2: urbanization alters nearshore bacterioplankton communities by increasing diversity year-round with the addition of bacteria having anthropogenic sources (wastewater, runoff) and interrupting the seasonal cycle. These changes can indicate or forewarn larger disruption to ecosystem function.

Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jun 9

tldr 1/2: concretization and shoreline modification increase runoff and nutrient loading reaching coastlines as evidenced by larger fluctuations in salinity and higher concentrations of nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, and phosphate.

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