Steve Biller
@steve_biller
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@[email protected] - Loves all things microbial, especially in the oceans. Assistant Prof. @ Wellesley College.
Joined May 2019
RT @steve_biller: Two research technician positions are now available in my lab at Wellesley College - come help us learn more about microb….
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Two research technician positions are now available in my lab at Wellesley College - come help us learn more about microbial communities, extracellular vesicles, and viruses in the oceans! Happy to discuss opportunities in more detail. Please share!
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Wellesley College has a new tenure track assistant professor opening for a terrestrial ecologist. Please help spread the word!.
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RT @MCE_lab: There are relatively few testable hypotheses that attempt to mechanistically explain resource allocation in microorganisms. In….
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Two different hypotheses have been raised as to how temperature affects resource allocation in microorganisms. The translation-compensation hypothesis (TCH) predicts that the increase in enzymatic...
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Thanks to all my co-authors for the huge amount of work that went into this over the years, including @aldoaarellano, @EmilyYeager9, and many others from @ChisholmLab_MIT and my own group not on twitter.
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Bacteria make #EVs, but how many? Our latest paper attempts to put some numbers on this. Short answer: it varies quite a bit among microbes, and also changes with growth conditions. Very happy to see the final version of this out! .
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Bacteria release extracellular vesicles that contain a wide variety of cellular compounds, including lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules, into their surrounding environment. These...
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RT @bluewaterlab: Check out our new paper that reveals new sources of predation on microbes in the ocean @SutherlandLab @PSU_Biology @psu_r….
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Microbial mortality impacts the structure of food webs, carbon flow, and the interactions that create dynamic patterns of abundance across gradients in space and time in diverse ecosystems. In the...
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New mobile genetic elements! Prochlorococcus! Vesicles! Viruses! Marine ecological adaptations! Glad to have been part of this amazing group effort led by @th4ckl, @Raphael_micro + @IIMOG. Something for everyone in here, please check it out:.
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Tycheposons, a group of mobile genetic elements, facilitate horizontal gene transfer in marine picocyanobacteria. Dispersed through viral capsids and extracellular vesicles, tycheposons promote...
Great team effort by @Raphael_micro @IIMOG @brochlorococcus @pmberube @gaberoo @jmeppley @zydahmed @bowerlauwer @rstepanauskas @Lab_Sullivan @steve_biller and everyone else from the @ChisholmLab_MIT.
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RT @MCE_lab: Microbial interactions are fascinating – but if we study one pair of organisms, how relevant is what we learn to other, closel….
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New paper! Please check out this exciting story about "viruses of viruses" in the oceans. Mobile genetic elements are amazing. A fun collaboration with @jmeppley and coauthors - see the thread below! .
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Phage satellites are mobile genetic elements that propagate by parasitizing bacteriophage replication. We report here the discovery of abundant and...
Phage satellites are short DNA elements that hijack viruses to hop from cell to cell, and we* found thousands of them in a few liters of Pacific Ocean water. * w/@steve_biller, @oceanmicrobes, Andy Burger, and Ed DeLong. 1/.
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RT @EmilyYeager9: …when you’re watching @livwilliamson talk about coral reproduction and happen to see yourself on tv for the first time…😬🙃….
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We’re hiring! #postdoc position available to study marine microbial interactions, esp. interested in the roles of extracellular vesicles. Lots of exciting multidisciplinary project possibilities. Come join us! Contact me for more details.
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RT @MCE_lab: Postdoc opportunity! We are looking for a postdoc (and potentially also an MSc student) to study how marine microbial communit….
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RT @prochlorococcus: Happy birthday (actually yesterday) Prochlorococcus - another year and another ~5 Gt of organic carbon produced in the….
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RT @jkagan1: Great article from Scientific American on our work (and many others) to explore the deep sea for interesting Immunology. The….
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Compounds that marine creatures make to defend themselves could yield lifesaving medicines
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RT @Ciencia_Divulga: Check out our new preprint on UCYN-A. Work carried out with @segfault_0x47 during my postdoc with @Jonathan_Zehr http….
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RT @MCE_lab: Excited to present an international 5-day workshop titled “from Genomes to Metabolism”, taking place in Haifa this winter. It….
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Still accepting applications for a #postdoc position in my group! Interested in exploring the strange and exciting world of extracellular vesicles in the oceans? Love microbial interactions? Come join us!.
We are excited to anounce a #postdoc position to study vesicle-mediated marine microbial interactions! Mix of lab, field, and computational work, lots of opportunities to explore new ideas. 3 yrs. Contact me for more information. Please RT! .
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