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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

MICOlab past & current students celebrated @lydiaruggles.bsky.social (my first student 😭) and her marriage this weekend! It was a beautiful ceremony and very fun party. We wish Lydia all the happiness in the universe, including lots of travel and well-calibrated pipettes!! 🎉🎊🍾🌊🦠🤓

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For those who reached out asking how to help: This gofundme is specifically for graduate students who lost personal items, computers, tablets, etc. in the fire. We were told that these items are not retrievable or reimbursable -an added burden for students during a devastating time. Plz share 🌊💙

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊

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B-vitamin requirements and phycosphere interactions for the HAB-forming dinoflagellate, Pyrodinium bahamense var. bahamense

Pyrodinium bahamense is a saxitoxin-producing dinoflagellate found in tropical and subtropical estuarine waters globally, with the var. bahamense variety forming recurrent harmful algal blooms (HABs) ...

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Oh time flies - my very first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social graduated yesterday! I am so proud of her & her work (stay tuned for a preprint very soon!!). Also proud to wear @oistedu.bsky.social regalia for the first time (graduated spring 2020…), esp. the custom Yuntanza Minsa hood ❤️ 🌊 #microsky

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Lydia Ruggles @lydiaruggles.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Love a super productive day in the lab!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes

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Lydia Ruggles @lydiaruggles.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

If anyone wants to send me science stickers, I’d happily take them. (I don’t have an obsession or anything😅)

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Lydia Ruggles @lydiaruggles.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Thanks @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social for a great Memorial Day cookout for the MICOlab! Gnasher is obviously our lab manager giving orders😅 @ldamore.bsky.social

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Grad student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social made the best treats for lab meeting today. Thank you Lydia! They were as delicious as they were beautiful 😍😍😍😍 it’s the teeth for me 🤓🤓

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Lydia Ruggles @lydiaruggles.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Fun with the planktoscope this lab meeting! It’s awesome to see all the creatures in our backyard!

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Fantastic lab holiday party today - and so happy to have 2 new micro/molecular/phytoplankton lab groups to celebrate with this year! @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social @bellathebiologist.bsky.social @lydiaruggles.bsky.social @microbusta.bsky.social

Large group of people posing outside in a screened patio with presents for the White Elephant gift exchange in front of them. Many wearing holiday antlers/outfits. Two cute dogs too!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

MICOlab lab meeting today was an end of semester wrap-up, look-back, and ginger-bread reef building competition!

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Lydia Ruggles @lydiaruggles.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Shoutout to @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social for being the coolest advisor who finds you pyrodinium socks for Christmas!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

CMS PhD student Olivia Blondheim hosted an amazing outreach event at Weedon Island Preserve this weekend!! We had so much fun learning about vertical oyster gardens (VOGs) and making our own to contribute to Olivia's project and to hang at the community dock our family has access to.

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Lydia Ruggles @lydiaruggles.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

So excited to be a part of USF college of marine science studying microbial interactions with Pyrodinium bahamense! #MICOLAB

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