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Blake Ushijima, Ph.D.
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Assistant Prof at UNCW | Microbiology | Vibrio coralliilyticus enthusiasts | Coral pathogens & probiotics 🪸🦠 | #SCTLD | Comments are my own | Hawaii born | he/him
https://www.ushijima-lab.com/
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The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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An Asgard Archaeon (Lokiarchaeum ossiferum) growing and retracting its arms
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The UNCW Department of Biology & Marine Biology is hiring a TT Invertebrate Biologist position! Come work with us!
jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37895
Assistant Professor – Invertebrate Biology
The Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Invertebrate Biology starting in Aug...
jobs.uncw.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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they look so ... orange cream mound like! Phlyctenactis www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Wandering Sea Anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa)
Wandering Sea Anemone from 'Eastern side of Bare Island, Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia' on July 4, 2021 at 12:21 PM by Erik Schlögl
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November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Best. Name. Ever.
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Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America
The fossil record of chondrichthyans from the Pacific coast of South America is rich and diverse, with the Bahía Inglesa Formation distinguished as one of the most important in the region. Despite th...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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When the lab surprises you for Halloween dressed as...you. 😂
A group of Blakes
November 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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2 iconic coral species are now functionally extinct off Florida, study finds – we witnessed the reef’s bleaching and devastation
The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help them recover?
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October 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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It's been 10 years, but we're finally getting back into phages. Glorious enrichment assays from mud samples.
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky
Polymyxin B lethality requires energy-dependent outer membrane disruption - Nature Microbiology
The antibiotic polymyxin B requires bacterial metabolic activity to cause sufficient damage to the outer membrane to access the inner membrane, which it permeabilizes via an energy-independent mechanism to kill the cell.
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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If you want to make a difference in the marine world 🌊🪸🐟... We are looking for a programme assistant (part time) based in in Berlin #OceanOptimism. ogy.de/6jtx
Programme Assistant (m/f/x) - part time
BLUE ACTION FUND is searching for a:Programme AssistantREPORTS TO: Executive DirectorLOCATION: BerlinSALARY: CompetitiveCLOSING DATE: 2 November 2025START DATE: As soon as possibleCONTRACT: Part time ...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The Whitney lab at U FL is an interdisciplinary powerhouse of a scientific community. They're looking for a new faculty colleague in a VERY broad search in Marine Bioscience--link below.

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience
explore.jobs.ufl.edu
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW LIVE! 16th International Coral Reef Symposium

Submit an abstract here: www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs...

#coralreefs #symposium #newzealand #icrs #coralresearch #networking #coral #internationalcoralreefsociety #marinescience #marinebiology
Call for abstracts
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts is now open. Submissions are invited under the approved sessions, each aligned with one of the eight broad Symposium themes.
www.icrs2026.nz
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year!

Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists!

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Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios
Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios
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September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
September 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems - Nature Microbiology
Proximity-ligation-based sequencing from 111 samples and 5 environments reveals that a substantial proportion of phages infect multiple species.
www.nature.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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5 Dead, Dozens Hospitalized amid Outbreak of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Beaches and Seafood
Vibrio vulnificus continues to sicken people in Louisiana as the state urges residents to take precautions.
people.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A plasmid golden ratio? 🧬
Plasmid copy number ≈ 2.5% of chromosome size—consistent across bacterial species!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @jerorb.bsky.social
🧪 #microbesky
a Scatter plots showing the correlation between plasmid size (x-axis) and PCN (y-axis) for the analysed genera. Each point represents the median PCN and plasmid size for each PTU, and error bars indicate the standard deviation from the median. Grey lines represent ordinary least squares regression, with the surrounding shaded area indicating 95% confidence intervals. The scaling factor or slope, k, is indicated on each panel. b Distribution of total DNA load per plasmid (x-axis) relative to chromosome size per genus (y-axis). The DNA load of each plasmid is calculated by multiplying the plasmid size by the copy number and then expressed as a proportion relative to the chromosome size. The point inside the box marks the median. The upper and lower hinges correspond to the 25th and 75th percentiles, and whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range. Only Escherichia and Salmonella significantly differ from All; Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Dunn’s test for pairwise multiple comparisons p < 10−4; effect size = 0.006. c Relative plasmid DNA load observed (%) (x-axis) and expected (y-axis) per cell. The y-axis indicates the expected plasmid DNA load (%) inside a cell when it contains one plasmid (1n), two plasmids (2n), and so on. This expected data has been calculated by generating a sequence from 1 to 9 multiplied by the median of the DNA load per plasmid (2.49%). Each green point represents a single genome, and the black points are the median for each category. Shading indicates interquartile ranges. Pearson’s p value and coefficient are shown for the correlation between expected and observed plasmid DNA.
September 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Assistant Professor in Microbiology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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nypost.com/2025/09/03/h...
Deadly ‘kissing bug’ parasite is now in 32 US states — and you might not even know you have it
A kiss might steal your heart — but this one could stop it.
nypost.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Phage folks, does anyone have suggestions for cheaper alternatives for low melt agarose for phage plaque assays? Much appreciated!
September 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Bleaching and tissue loss coral diseases get all the attention, but there's also growth anomalies. We don't know for sure what causes them. However, our lab is going to be looking at these Acropora growth anomalies (the growths in the middle of the branches) under TEM!
August 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A 9-armmed sea star (Luidia senegalensis) from Florida. Don't worry, "Stuart" is alive and well. We just needed some baseline samples from healthy specimens 🤩
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM