The start of an exciting project with our many collaborators on converting waste Sargassum seaweed into bioproducts of value. The work is funded by Schmidt Sciences and is described here:

Who doesn't love a beach retreat? dblab folks @CouchMicroscopy @timstep1383 @ChilleErin @ShriniNandi @g_panayotakis @KaseyH210 take a break after discussing future projects. Happy Labor Day Weekend everyone!

RT @CouchMicroscopy: What a great time in Montreal at #Evol2024 with friends old and new! Thanks @Evol_mtg and especially @systbiol for bei….

RT @CouchMicroscopy: Today @ChilleErin and I presented at #Evol2024. Her talk was, “Gene expression response to physiological stress in two….

RT @CouchMicroscopy: Great talks at the #Evol2024 meeting so far from the @DebashB lab (@timstep1383 and @g_panayotakis) and then from my c….

Congratulations to @ChilleErin for her paper on why genotype matters when studying coral stress responses (. You can hear the live version at @Evol_mtg. Congrats also to co-authors @timstep1383 Deeksha Misri @EmmaStrand4 and @HolliePutnam

What a pleasure to have Hwan Su Yoon from Sungkyunkwan University in S. Korea visiting us in New Jersey. His group is doing path-breaking, creative algal research. Our long-term collaboration has always been joyful and spirited.

RT @CouchMicroscopy: It was great to have Hwan Su Yoon in our lab this week and to go Paulinella hunting with him in my hometown! Truly one….

Happy to have contributed to this excellent paper by @KEdougan in the group of @dorkyM that provides a model of how whole-genome duplication shaped evolution of the heat-tolerant coral algal symbiont, Durusdinium (. Algae rock! Great work everyone.

RT @ShriniNandi: An amazing experience presenting the awesome work we do at @DebashB lab in collaboration with AIMS, at BMC 2024. ##BenMicr….

RT @dorkyM: Our work led by @KEDougan shows how genome duplication enhanced the efficiency of a #coral #algal #symbiont FINALLY out @Scienc….

We have an opening in my lab for a postdoc with expertise in algal/seaweed biotechnology, in particular, metabolic engineering and carbohydrate biochemistry, with some bioinformatics training. Email me at debash.bhattacharya@gmail.com, if this fits your background and aspirations.

Our heartfelt thanks to collaborators at the Marine Innovation Hub and Fundemar (@Fundemardr) in the Dominican Republic for organizing our recent research visit and building an exciting coral reef conservation program together. We had a great time! @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNB

This paper was a lot of hard work, but worth it. We start to learn how Paulinella meets its CO2 needs in the chromatophore (. Congratulations Arwa G, @timstep1383 @JohnReinfelder @VickieCalatrava and Arthur G. @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNJAES @carnegiescience

RT @CouchMicroscopy: Turning up at the Durham Bulls game at the @NewPhyt #npnextgen conference. Love making conference friends!.

RT @CouchMicroscopy: I’m at @DukeU for the #npNextGen conference! Lots of great talks and posters so far!.

RT @CouchMicroscopy: Day 3 of Paulinella field sampling and we’re up to 43 cells found, 6 environmental samples preserved for genomics, and….

RT @CouchMicroscopy: Day 2 of Paulinella field sampling in North Carolina. So far we’ve found 22 cells and are hoping to isolate some of th….

RT @CouchMicroscopy: It’s been a strange 6 years in the @DebashB lab…