Phytoplankton apply the onion skin principle
The interactions between microscopic algal cells and bacteria in the oceans play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle. Researchers at ETH…
Author: Joëlle Robinson
Swiss Army Plans to Use Bacteria
Former lab member Dr. Estelle Clerc and her company, CellX, made national headlines last week after securing a contract worth nearly CHF 500,000…
Mathematician’s Prestigious Fellowship Drives New Discoveries in Marine Microbiology
Professor Natasha Blitvic’s successful Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship highlights the power of interdisciplinary research and the value of one of the world’s most…
Our work on “shapeshifting marine algae” has been published in Science Advances
We have just published our discovery that coccolithophores, the microscopic algae that help regulate Earth’s climate, can transform into a bizarre, amoeba-like state…
Luiz Silva receives the American Fisheries Society Fellow Award
During the 155th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) in San Antonio, Texas, Luiz Silva received the prestigious AFS Fellow Award…
Our work on “shear-induced bacterial conjugation hotspots” has been published in PNAS
We showed that optimal shearing can increase bacterial conjugation rate five-fold, suggesting that high-shear regions (e.g., turbulent surface ocean) could act as conjugation…
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