Melissa Brock
@brock_ml
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👩🏻🔬🦠🌊 | PhD Candidate in the Adam Martiny lab @UCIrvine | marine microbe enthusiast
University of California
Joined August 2017
Our paper on Indian Ocean biogeography using Go-SHIP lines I07N and I09N is out now in Limnology and Oceanography! Many thanks to all involved, especially my co-authors @aalarkin @EricJRaes and @UCI_OCEANS. Read our work here:
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Be sure to check out this month's Issue of @TrendsParasitol where you can find my review! The cover image for this issue is also FANTASTIC! I wonder who took it.... 😉 https://t.co/Qvr44cO4ka
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2 weeks left to submit an abstract to our session “OB016: Phytoplankton Ecology at Large Scales” for the upcoming Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 in New Orleans! Submissions that include imaging technologies, ‘omics, optical & remote sensing approaches, and modeling are all welcome.
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 Looking to learn more about the various roles monocytes play during infection? Check out my review that just came out in @TrendsParasitol ! https://t.co/PY0OcJEM1M
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PhD candidate @laurenelees is defending her dissertation on #microbiomes and trophic interactions in coastal ecosystems! Join us 3pm Weds Aug 23 in 4201 Nat Sci 2 (email Lauren for Zoom link).
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It's happening!!! Next week I'll be defending my PhD. DM or email me if you'd like the zoom link. A big thanks to my labmates for the amazing flier
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🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12).
biorxiv.org
A central challenge in community ecology is predicting the effects of abiotic factors on community assembly. In particular, microbial communities play a central role in the ecosystem, but we do not...
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#evolution2023 Are you interested in spatial structure, microbes, multi-level selection, or community-level directed evolution? I am hiring a postdoc to use community-level selection to study spatial dynamics in microbes. Within that theme, there is tons of freedom
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Happy #PhycologyFriday! We’re hoping someone might be able to help us with an ID..we’re geochemists and not phycologists, so we’re way out of our comfort zone- we were told this red algae genus might be Polysiphonia? Or maybe Gracilaria? Thanks for any and all help!! @jlagould
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“Bacteria-phage coevolution with a seed bank” Led by @coevolving with @ShoeStrapped, @AndreeaMagalie, @joshuasweitz available @ISMEJournal 🧵 https://t.co/ukkloLDfvK
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This would be with ~30 4th graders. They’re fired up about volcanoes and geysers and it would be so great if they could ask their questions. It would be an even bigger bonus if you have cool photos 🌋 🌋 🌋 please retweet @USGSVolcanoes @hawaiivolcNP @spearmicrobe 2/2
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Hello #geoscience Twitter. My sister teaches 4th grade at a charter school in Camden, New Jersey. This week they are learning about volcanoes and geysers. The students are asking if they can talk to a scientist. We are looking for someone to do a 30 minute - 1 hour Zoom Q&A 1/2
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I am thrilled to announce that my first, first-author research article is now published. I am extremely grateful to my undergraduate mentor Aurora Gaxiola and all the ones who gave valuable feedback, including my advisor @StevenDAllison (1/9) https://t.co/zyQ99mi2TG
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Photograph of the study site, Siete Tazas National Park, in Chile (photo: J. Murua). The diagram identifies the species...
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Southern California marine biogeochemists (& like-minded paleoceanographers)! Consider this your invitation to attend the 2nd annual So Cal BOOM symposium @UCIrvine. Grad student and post-doc research, but all are invited. Food! Friends! Fun! Stickers! https://t.co/6JpcoQBMn9
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Check out our new paper on achieving net-zero emissions for aviation, which will require widespread use of sustainable aviation fuels and large-scale carbon dioxide removal ✈️🧵1/5 With @Davis_StevenJ, @MBazilian, @Greergo, @DolfGielen, Seungwoo Kang https://t.co/U9YlbLNWg2
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Our opinion piece (in its final form 😋) with @microbomics and @StevenDAllison on the burning questions in soil microbiology is out! Thank you @ashish_a_malik, @malladapted, @fungi_lover for your awesome friendly reviews 💚 https://t.co/PO4q36H4Gw
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Postdoc @SaraiFinks has a new pub out: textbook-like knowledge on plasmid patterns and processes. "plasmid trait content varied with both bacterial host taxonomy and environment and that, on average, half of the plasmids were potentially mobilizable" https://t.co/fjS1ZNDxIF
journals.asm.org
Plasmids are well known for their role in the transmission of antibiotic resistance-conferring genes. Beyond human and clinical settings, however, they disseminate many other types of genes, includ...
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Our introduction with @moirahough for the special feature about underground ecology that we co guest edited is ouuuuuut!
New from @ElsaHAbs & @moirahough: their introduction to The World of Underground Ecology in a Changing Environment, their special feature in Elementa's Ecology and Earth Systems domain👇 https://t.co/OY5qSkcqBl
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