Excited to share the Phaeoexplorer paper out today in Cell: Evolutionary genomics of the emergence of brown algae as key components of coastal ecosystems! 🌊 Including the genome of Dictyota dichotoma and many more! https://t.co/4rM2YGhmuU #Seaweed
*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.
@sarahgalerie@TheJourney2050 It's spreading at an insane rate! Such a sad and frightening situation😣. At @PhycologyUgent, one of our students is working on this. Stay tuned for the upcoming publication!
What is your favorite latest genome assembler that uses Illumina reads? I want to see what people are doing these days, please retweet 🙏
#genomics#Illumina#bioinformatics
Why are the impacts of #climatechange so variable? Excited to share our new review paper in @GlobalChangeBio which explores the role of local environmental variation in mediating the impacts of extreme marine heatwaves
@UWAresearch@ForrestResearch
https://t.co/pedLKVoqA3
📣 PhD students wanted: Future-proofing seaweeds on the #greatsouthernreef 🥬 Lead meaningful research in a global biodiversity hotspot 🐠🏄♀️🌊 Email me CV and letter of motivation or get in touch for more info
Global #seaweed forests export 56 million tonnes of carbon (15% of their production) to the deep ocean annually. These biodiverse #blueforests are overlooked in the global ocean #carbon budget. We provide national estimates of this C #sink https://t.co/GB4m7UYUnz @NatureGeosci
How effective are #MPAs for conserving #kelp#forests? Our perspective shows they can help with some drivers of loss like grazing, but often fail to protect against ocean warming and coastal darkening - 2 main reasons we are losing kelp forests globally! https://t.co/arCzLYq5Ft
Just out: our Mini Review on Genome Editing in Macroalgae.
We examine the current state and challenges of genome editing in #seaweeds. We tried to chart a way forward and discuss #applications.
I hope we can inspire some phycologists!
https://t.co/jASOhsszCx
#crispr
@Pieter_Vtieghem We use the pendants and leave them for multiple months on site🌊 until we replace them. You can get different storage capacities. I'll send you the details .
Can seaweed farming lead to climate change mitigation?🌿🌊Seaweed farming is increasingly considered as an important strategy for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). But how much carbon do seaweed farms currently remove? Let's unravel the findings! 🧵👇 https://t.co/uqsWnC0ZKP
Underwater rivers export up to 50% of #kelp#carbon from shallow reefs to deep ocean, with potential for #sequestration. Our new paper shows dense shelf water transport is a major mechanism for kelp export off Australia's #GreatSouthernReef and elsewhere! https://t.co/Jp2UxE13H0