Curtis Suttle
@virosphere.bsky.social
Purveyor of the Virosphere.
Professor Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, Botany, and the Inst for the Oceans & Fisheries - UBC
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/curtissuttle
Professor Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, Botany, and the Inst for the Oceans & Fisheries - UBC
https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/curtissuttle
Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
When you peak inside an oyster, it's remarkable what one finds. Rather than "The world is my oyster" sensu William Shakespeare, it should be changed to "The world is an oyster", as a metaphor of the vast diversity of life residing within these humble molluscs; there are magnificent microbes within.
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
When you peak inside an oyster, it's remarkable what one finds. Rather than "The world is my oyster" sensu William Shakespeare, it should be changed to "The world is an oyster", as a metaphor of the vast diversity of life residing within these humble molluscs; there are magnificent microbes within.
@kevinzhong2006.bsky.social shows that Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 has the genetic potential to produce aerolysin-like toxins journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... that could be involved in SSWD that killed billions of seastars www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
@kevinzhong2006.bsky.social shows that Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 has the genetic potential to produce aerolysin-like toxins journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... that could be involved in SSWD that killed billions of seastars www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Join a fantastic educational leadership team in @science.ubc.ca. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement, a joint appointment in @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social and the Michael Smith Laboratories. See full details academicjobsonline.org/ajo/events/3...
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Join a fantastic educational leadership team in @science.ubc.ca. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement, a joint appointment in @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social and the Michael Smith Laboratories. See full details academicjobsonline.org/ajo/events/3...
Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.
The NW Persian (Arabian) Gulf is a hypersaline negative estuary that harbors a vast galaxy of cyanophage and pelagiphage evolutionary groups that are highly uneven in abundance (www.int-res.com/articles/ame...). The remarkable diversity of phage genotypes in the sea continues to impress.
February 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The NW Persian (Arabian) Gulf is a hypersaline negative estuary that harbors a vast galaxy of cyanophage and pelagiphage evolutionary groups that are highly uneven in abundance (www.int-res.com/articles/ame...). The remarkable diversity of phage genotypes in the sea continues to impress.
Nice paper reinforcing the role of viruses & nutrient cycling! Would this fit the scenario of viral driven enhanced nutrient recycling i.e. www.int-res.com/articles/ame... and the shunt and pump affecting the stoichiometry of nutrient cycling via the shunt and pump www.nature.com/articles/nrm...?
January 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Nice paper reinforcing the role of viruses & nutrient cycling! Would this fit the scenario of viral driven enhanced nutrient recycling i.e. www.int-res.com/articles/ame... and the shunt and pump affecting the stoichiometry of nutrient cycling via the shunt and pump www.nature.com/articles/nrm...?
Registration and Abstract submission is open for Aquatic Virus Workshop 12 😍 - avw12.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag.... AVW is THE meeting for those exploring viruses infecting little things in water; it will fill up fast. So, register now and come to Banyuls-sur-Mer, a jewel on the Mediterranean.
December 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Registration and Abstract submission is open for Aquatic Virus Workshop 12 😍 - avw12.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag.... AVW is THE meeting for those exploring viruses infecting little things in water; it will fill up fast. So, register now and come to Banyuls-sur-Mer, a jewel on the Mediterranean.
Excitement is building for the 12th iteration of the Aquatic Virus Workshop to be held at the fantastic Oceanologic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France during 5-9 May 2025. We have a great lineup of speakers, and a nascent website: avw12.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
September 5, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Excitement is building for the 12th iteration of the Aquatic Virus Workshop to be held at the fantastic Oceanologic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France during 5-9 May 2025. We have a great lineup of speakers, and a nascent website: avw12.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
The 5th Ringberg Symposium of Giant Viruses is underway from snowy Ringberg Castle in Bavaria. Giant Virus star from Jeff Blanchard
December 7, 2023 at 9:22 AM
The 5th Ringberg Symposium of Giant Viruses is underway from snowy Ringberg Castle in Bavaria. Giant Virus star from Jeff Blanchard
If you are considering @ubcscience for Grad School there is an information session in an hour ...but you need to register www.grad.ubc.ca/info-session.... See you there!
November 22, 2023 at 5:05 PM
If you are considering @ubcscience for Grad School there is an information session in an hour ...but you need to register www.grad.ubc.ca/info-session.... See you there!
Gerhard Herndl introduces the role of microbes in carbon capture in the ocean
November 7, 2023 at 2:37 AM
Gerhard Herndl introduces the role of microbes in carbon capture in the ocean
Jean-Pierre Gattuso reminds us of the monumental task of removing CO2 from the atmosphere and the opportunities and challenges of marine CDR.
November 7, 2023 at 2:28 AM
Jean-Pierre Gattuso reminds us of the monumental task of removing CO2 from the atmosphere and the opportunities and challenges of marine CDR.
Delighted to have the opportunity to speak at the World Laureates Forum on Ocean Based Solutions for Carbon Neutralization. UN Special Envoy for the Ocean, Peter Thompson emphasizing the need to stop subsidies of offshore Fisheries.
November 7, 2023 at 1:41 AM
Delighted to have the opportunity to speak at the World Laureates Forum on Ocean Based Solutions for Carbon Neutralization. UN Special Envoy for the Ocean, Peter Thompson emphasizing the need to stop subsidies of offshore Fisheries.
Tomorrow (1 Nov, noon Pacific), Antony Jose (UMD) and myself are give two "general" short online public L.A.S.E.R. talks: "A new theory of genetic heredity" and "Viruses and the environment". Open to all, but you must register stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... Hope to see you there.
October 31, 2023 at 8:40 PM
Tomorrow (1 Nov, noon Pacific), Antony Jose (UMD) and myself are give two "general" short online public L.A.S.E.R. talks: "A new theory of genetic heredity" and "Viruses and the environment". Open to all, but you must register stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... Hope to see you there.
Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.
October 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.
TT Asst Prof in Appl Environ Microbiol @UBC. If you research microbial physiology, metabolism or ecology, including the discovery, cultivation, isolation or engineering of microorganisms apply to join an amazing group of colleagues. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25672. PLEASE share widely.
October 11, 2023 at 9:37 PM
TT Asst Prof in Appl Environ Microbiol @UBC. If you research microbial physiology, metabolism or ecology, including the discovery, cultivation, isolation or engineering of microorganisms apply to join an amazing group of colleagues. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25672. PLEASE share widely.
The Schitoviridae go well beyond the toilet bowl, and are home to the rather poorly known N4 phage. These viruses are shown to occur in environments from polar regions to the gut, encode AMGs and infect a wide diversity of proteobacteria. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
September 18, 2023 at 9:07 PM
The Schitoviridae go well beyond the toilet bowl, and are home to the rather poorly known N4 phage. These viruses are shown to occur in environments from polar regions to the gut, encode AMGs and infect a wide diversity of proteobacteria. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
If you ever need to genotype oysters, then check out this SNP-based approach developed by Ben Sutherland et al. that uses a panel of 592 amplicons positioned throughout the genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... This will help oyster breeders determine and follow parentage.
September 17, 2023 at 6:41 AM
If you ever need to genotype oysters, then check out this SNP-based approach developed by Ben Sutherland et al. that uses a panel of 592 amplicons positioned throughout the genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... This will help oyster breeders determine and follow parentage.
If oceanography or geochemistry is not your thing, how about TWO tenure-track positions in any area of Evolutionary Biology? academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/253.... Great opportunity to join amazing colleagues working across a vast array of systems biodiversity.ubc.ca
August 24, 2023 at 10:21 PM
If oceanography or geochemistry is not your thing, how about TWO tenure-track positions in any area of Evolutionary Biology? academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/253.... Great opportunity to join amazing colleagues working across a vast array of systems biodiversity.ubc.ca
Come join us. Assistant Professor positions in 1) Chemical Oceanography and 2) Structural Geology. www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/job-op.... 1) open ocean and/or coastal water chemistry; 2) field-based documenting of deformation patterns in time and space
August 24, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Come join us. Assistant Professor positions in 1) Chemical Oceanography and 2) Structural Geology. www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/job-op.... 1) open ocean and/or coastal water chemistry; 2) field-based documenting of deformation patterns in time and space
Spread the word! Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology. www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/job-op.... This position is for an established researcher with wide recognition for their sustained accomplishments in high-temperature geo/thermochronology or isotope geochemistry
August 24, 2023 at 8:38 PM
Spread the word! Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology. www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/job-op.... This position is for an established researcher with wide recognition for their sustained accomplishments in high-temperature geo/thermochronology or isotope geochemistry