Rebecca Key, Ph. D.

Computational Biologist @UF 🦠🔬 # studying biogeography, symbioses, & biochemical roles of marine microalgae 🌏🌊

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉

TinyLife Microbe Stickers are now available!!
Store: https://t.co/IthcZyjSZM

Dive into the beautiful world of microbes w these adorable stickers

Many thanks to my lab group for supporting my art 🦠❤️ yay!

#MicrobeStickers #Algae #Phytoplankton #Diatoms

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

Another 18-in diameter circle piece I painted. This one was completed, off-n-on, since graduating. Diverse microbes painted with countless dots. Fun and colorful.

It is called 'Holobiont'

[R Consortium @RConsortium]

New R Consortium webinar: Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem for the modern composable data pipeline

June 24, 1pm ET

Sign up now! https://t.co/eUwIWOfNGu

#rstats @paleolimbot

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

More art!

Here's a 4.5ft long cedar board with lovely marine diatoms, green algae, cyanobacteria, and other bacteria

IG: @tinyLife_microbes

🦠 Thanks for watching!
#sciart
#Phytoplankton
#diatoms
#microbiology

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

@LeezaPickering Thank you Leeza 😊

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

It's complete! Patience was key, no rushing for a beautiful piece

"A Painted Microcosm" is an 18-inch acrylic dot painting of phytoplankton 🦠💚

From the center outward: cyanobacteria (see the heterocyst? 😊), prasinophytes, haptophytes, stramenopiles, & dinoflagellates

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

In progress acrylic painting 🦠💚 Long day of work, this is relaxing time

Center to margins: cyanobacteria, green algae, haptophyta, diatoms. And soon-to-be dinoflagellates

#algae #phycology #sciArt
#acrylic #phytoplankton

[McCormick Lab @McCormick_Lab]

Our new review is out now – well done Ella, Sabina, Nicky and Charlotte – a great collaboration with the @mackinderlab!

From algae to plants: understanding pyrenoid based CO2-concentrating mechanisms. https://t.co/J4wGI7vfGl

[@vardilab @vardilab]

📢 Registration is now open for M₂C₂ 2025:
Marine Microbial Chemical Communication​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Conference!
🦠🌊🦠🌊
17-20 March 2025
NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Texel, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Register now:
https://t.co/AKrkv7km24

[Fabio Cortes @fabiojcortes]

Molecular dynamics simulations in mixed reality!

With @labriataphd and @lucien_krapp we’re scaling our multi-user WebXR platform to enable immersive molecular simulations, fully based on web technologies.

Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff coming soon!

@threejs #WebXR #Quest3

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Temperature structuring of microbial communities on a global scale https://t.co/TzsbIkLeKF

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

I discovered where the clever lil' hunter that visits every night hides during day hours... in my Madagascar Palm!

Makes perfect sense

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

A decade of dinoflagellate genomics illuminating an enigmatic eukaryote cell https://t.co/cxHiG5et8g

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

1/ 12 years ago, I typed my first "Hello world!". It is not easy to learn bioinformatics from scratch. But it is possible if you put in effort and have a clear pathway.

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

We found a way to implant bacteria 🦠 in fungi 🍄and used it to induce artificial endosymbiosis. Read all about it in our newest research paper @Nature .

https://t.co/dJSITsVNOk

[Mar Benavides @Mar__Benavides]

@BridgesOcean

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

Another angle of this microbe painting 💚🦠🐊

[Rebecca Key, Ph. D. @rkeyMicrobe]

Weekend painting, had fun painting freshwater algae diversity ☺️💚 Acrylic & resin, 18"x5" inches

#algae #phytoplankton #crafting #microbiology

[Jake Scott @Caudatejake]

A large aquatic Idaho Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus) from last week in the gem state.

[Hannah Vander Zanden @hanvanzan]

I feel so loved! My colleagues and students provided snacks for my tenure and promotion seminar yesterday. Special thanks to Ana Longo for sugar cookie versions of all the species featured in my talk and to @CRNolte for the edible isotopes!