Jordan Sims

George Mason U PhD candidate in Environmental Science & Policy 🌏 Rice ‘20 🦉 Microbial ecologist 🧬 Coral lover 🪸 Texan at heart 🤠 she/her 🏳️‍🌈

[Alex Veglia (he/him) @alex_veglia]

vAMPirus: a comprehensive pipeline for virus amplicon data analysis. We demonstrate its use on DNA and RNA virus datasets and reveal corallivore fish feces as a reservoir of Symbiodiniaceae-infecting viruses. Check it out!
https://t.co/AokU2pDG7t
#coralreefs #virusbioinformatics

[Jordan Sims @JordanASims_]

Excited to share preliminary results from one of my dissertation chapters today at #OSM24! Find me at poster 575 in Marine Ecosystems Across Scales, Time, and Biology (4-6pm) to chat about biofilm assembly, succession, and benthic invert settlement on coral reefs 🪸 #SLIME

[Lauren Howe-Kerr, PhD @laurenhowekerr]

Out today in @ISMEJournal thru extensive #TEM imaging, we show that a diversity of coral symbionts contain filamentous virus-like particles (fVLPs) see ⬇️for highlights

[Sierra S. Raglin, Ph.D. 🦠 @SierraScientist]

Microbial Ecology vs. Microbiology

[The Rice Thresher @TheRiceThresher]

Join us in honoring the legacy of Beth Buchanan, a quietly strong member of the Rice community whose impact will never be forgotten. Her story shows the power of perseverance and dedication.
https://t.co/u03oPK8GCD

[Lauren Howe-Kerr, PhD @laurenhowekerr]

We tracked a coral-associated virus lineage at the reef scale - in >50 coral colonies over 3+ years! 🪸 
Excited to share our new paper on viruses that infect coral dinoflagellate symbionts (aka 'dinoRNAVs') out today @ISMEComms @RiceUniversity @CorreaLab
https://t.co/rljRffi2do

[Jordan Sims @JordanASims_]

@MicrobiaLoop @ParkerKLund The only logical solution. Toad is arriving on Wednesday. No more failed PCRs!

[Zoe Ruben, M.Sc. @ZoeRuben1]

Hi coral microbe people,

Can anyone recommend a reference paper for “good” vs “bad” bacteria in the coral microbiome? I’m disseminating the results of my 16S data and what bacteria may be beneficial versus opportunistic or harmful. #AcademicTwitter #coralmicrobiome

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[Lauren Speare, PhD @laurenspeare]

Check out the latest from @vegathurberlab (Denise Silva, @hannah_eps & @VegaThurber) describing how to look at 16S in corals! 🦠🪸
https://t.co/BAL9imY2As

[Jordan Sims @JordanASims_]

Surprisingly, Teagan did NOT find any changes in community composition through time, possibly due to the small sample size. She is excited to see if this changes as she continues this project and adds additional timepoints and replicates next semester!

[Jordan Sims @JordanASims_]

The AWESOME undergrad I mentored this semester, Teagan Corpening, presented her ongoing research at GMU's Celebration of Student Scholarship last week! See her talk on succession in small-scale reef communities: https://t.co/A3nFEd0WuR or check out the highlights in this thread!

[Jordan Sims @JordanASims_]

Teagan found differences in the communities on the tops and bottoms of the tiles, with more fleshy macroalgae on the tops and more biofilm and invertebrate settlers on the bottoms. She thinks this may have been driven by increased light on the top sides promoting algal growth.

[Ishwariya Venkatesh @Ishwariya13]

Don’t wait to learn programming to start analyzing your genomics datasets. There are plenty of graphical user interface tools that require 0 programming knowledge. Every student deserves to experience that aha moment and the joy of discovery 😀! Here are some of my fav tools- 🧵

[Jordan Sims @JordanASims_]

@neubadah Here’s mine (mobile still under construction): https://t.co/TBJYlcoBbH

I love having a website because it lets me showcase a lot of the day-to-day work that I do that doesn’t make it onto my Google Scholar or CV!

[Houston Texans @HoustonTexans]

The Archer was here 🏹

RT IF YOU WANT IT

[Dr. Jennifer Salerno 🪸🌊🧬🧫🔬 @MicrobiaLoop]

#coral and #invertebrate folks! Please help us with ID of this lavender creature?! Thank you! 🌊🪸 Location: Honduras #taxonomy