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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)

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We are a NSF Science and Technology Center that explores how metabolite exchange through microbial networks impacts carbon cycling in the surface ocean

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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 Are you planning to attend #ASLO27 @aslo.org? Consider submitting your abstract to one of our four C-CoMP affiliated sessions by 9/15! Full session descriptions are available here: ccomp-stc.org/c-comp-sessi... and on the meeting website. 🧪
Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session EP07: What Works in Research Training. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract. Full session descriptions are linked here: https://aslo.org/san-juan-2027/session-list/.Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session EP09: Breaking Down Barriers to Ocean Science in K-12 Science Education. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract.Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session SS27: Metabolites at the Intersections of Microbial Networks in Aquatic Systems. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract.Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session SS35: Modeling Across Scales in Aquatic Ecosystems. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract.
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Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Job alert! Please RT! Looking for bioinformatics technician to help in projects using metagenomes to study microbial degradation of organic carbon in the ocean and in the human gut. Opportunity to gain research experience before graduate school. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Research Support Associate 1, Bioinformatics
MIT - Research Support Associate 1, Bioinformatics - Cambridge MA 02139
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The importance of interbacterial relationships in shaping cyanobacterial ecology www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs 🌊
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The importance of interbacterial relationships in shaping cyanobacterial ecology
Cyanobacteria are a globally abundant bacterial phylum that make key contributions to primary production and nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems. However, some cyanobacteria also cause substantial ...
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
C-CoMP had a whale 🐋 of a time teaching about tiny microbes 🦠 at the 2026 Woods Hole Science Stroll @whoi.edu! For the 2nd year, visitors imagined & visualized incredible adaptations of marine phytoplankton at our “Artistic Oceanographer” booth. Thanks to our volunteers & the Dyhrman Lab for inspo!🧪
C-CoMP Volunteers at the Artistic Oceanographer booth at the 2026 Woods Hole Science Stroll. Four C-CoMP volunteers (Mahima Nambiar, Victoria Centurino, Ella Claire Walsh, and Natalie Graham, left to right) stand beneath a tent and behind a table draped with a large banner depicting a graphical representation of the booth activity, complete with phytoplankton hero cartoons. Materials for the activity are set out on the picnic table. Photo by Brianna Garcia, WHOI.A child (face not pictured) presents their phytoplankton artwork. Photo by Brianna Garcia, WHOI.C-CoMP volunteer Brianna Garcia (WHOI) sits at a table and converses with a child who is creating phytoplankton and another adult underneath the tent at the booth. Other people are pictured in the background of the photo. Photo by Victoria Centurino, WHOI.A drawing of a phytoplanker by one of the booth visitors. Photo by Ella Claire Walsh, Boston College.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📣 Does your research focus on overcoming barriers to including aquatic science content in K-12 classrooms? If so, apply to C-CoMP Session EP09 at #ASLO27 @aslo.org by 9/15 to share your work! Full session descriptions are here: aslo.org/san-juan-202.... 🧪 #OceanLiteracy #K12Education
Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session EP09: Breaking Down Barriers to Ocean Science in K-12 Science Education. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📣 We are excited to advertise another C-CoMP #ASLO27 @aslo.org session! If you are researching "what works in research training" (e.g. mentoring, CUREs, post-bac research ed), submit your abstract to C-CoMP session EP07 with @erindolan1.bsky.social & Victoria Centurino. Abstracts due by 9/15!
Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session EP07: What Works in Research Training. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract. Full session descriptions are linked here: https://aslo.org/san-juan-2027/session-list/.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📣 Attending @aslo.org #ASLO27? If your aquatic research involves multiscale modeling, submit your abstract to session SS35, led by C-CoMP members @akrinos.bsky.social and @maratimes.bsky.social! Abstracts are due by 9/15. Full session descriptions are here: aslo.org/san-juan-202.... 🧪
Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session SS35: Modeling Across Scales in Aquatic Ecosystems. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📣 Interested in attending @aslo.org #ASLO27? If your research explores metabolite distributions, production or loss rates, and/or microbial-metabolite interactions 🦠, submit your abstract to our session SS27 by 9/15! Full session descriptions here: www.aslo.org/san-juan-202.... 🧪
Flyer for the ASLO 2027 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Session SS27: Metabolites at the Intersections of Microbial Networks in Aquatic Systems. The flyer includes the session title, organizers, and abstract.
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New 🌊 paper connecting ocean aerosol deposition, iron & nitrogen fixation @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @microbialplanet.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social @geotraces.bsky.social @usocb.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Atmospheric soluble iron sustains nitrogen fixation in oligotrophic oceans - Communications Earth & Environment
Iron input into the ocean from atmospheric aerosols can sustain productivity and influence carbon cycling in low-nutrient waters, as estimated through modelled atmospheric deposition and nutrient stoi...
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📣🎉🌊Our 2024-2026 Bridge-to-PhD Fellows have completed their program! Thank you Mariana (@martorres.bsky.social), Emily (@yunqianhu.bsky.social), Amanda, Jill, & Daniella (@daniellaasturias.bsky.social) for your contributions to C-CoMP! We are excited to see where you go next. Stay in touch!
(Left to right) Mariana, Daniella, Jill, Amanda, and Emily stand together in front of Vineyard Sound at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Photo by Victoria Centurino.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📣🌊🦠Today is the day! Applications for C-CoMP's 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships are due today by 11:59 pm EDT! Learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This past June, C-CoMP members and alumni attended the 2026 Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference to share research about marine microbes 🦠 and their metabolites, metabolisms, and impacts on ocean processes 🌊. It was great to catch-up!
14 current and former C-CoMP members stand together in front of a backdrop of trees and the ocean to take a group picture at the 2026 Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference. This photo was taken by Bryce Inman (WHOI) and edited by Laura Gray.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
📣 🌊There are just a few more days left to apply for a C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellowship! Applications are due on 06/26/2026. Learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ Please share with your networks! 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📣 The next two virtual Q+A sessions for the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship are tomorrow (6/17/2026) at 11 am and 3 pm ET. Register for a session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h Learn more about the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪
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C-CoMP Fellowship Q+A
Please choose one of the available Q+A sessions below and click on the button to sign up. After you have registered, we will send you a link to the virtual GatherTown session that you have chosen. Tha...
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📣 The first virtual Q+A session for the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship is tomorrow (6/12/2026) at 2 pm ET. Register for the session (or others) here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h Learn more about the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📣🌊Save the Date! C-CoMP is hosting 4 virtual Q+A sessions on GatherTown about our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships this June. Register to attend an info session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h. First session is this Friday! 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy World Oceans Day from C-CoMP 🌊! Take a moment today to reflect on the tiny yet mighty microbes 🦠 that provide and recycle life-supporting nutrients & support marine food webs, ensuring a vital and healthy ocean that we all depend on. #WorldOceansDay 🧪
The CTD rosette on the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during sunset in the Sargasso Sea. Photo by Emily Hu.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A few weeks ago, our Bridge-to-PhD fellows attended the 2026 @aslo.org - @sil-limnology.bsky.social conference to present their research. 📣Are you looking for more research experience in ocean science before pursuing a PhD? Apply now to our Bridge-to-PhD fellowship program: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪
The 2024-2026 cohort of C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellows take a group picture at the ASLO-SIL Joint Meeting in May 2026. Photo credit: Victoria Centurino, WHOI.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📣 Check out this new C-CoMP publication led by one of our Bridge-to-PhD fellow alums! Congrats to all authors! 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📣Interested, but unsure about what grad school involves? Our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowship supports the transition of individuals with undergraduate degrees who are interested in research careers in ocean science 🌊 into research-based MS and PhD programs. Learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 We are accepting applications for our 2026-2028 Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships! If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate of a 4 year, accredited university/college and interested in ocean science 🌊, learn more here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/! Apply by 6/26/2026 and spread the word 🧪
The second cohort of C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellows stand in front of the R/V Atlantic Explorer on their trip to Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) for their Research Week Experience. Photo credit: Victoria Centurino, WHOI. Members of the cruise team work together to prepare the CTD rosette for deployment. Photo by Claire Garfield, UGA.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📣 C-CoMP Publication Alert! Looking for a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that encourages development of microbiological lab skills and is based in ocean science? Check out the Ocean Genes CURE ⬇️, now published at CourseSource! tinyurl.com/3ns26j4u 🧪
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Ocean Genes CURE: The Influence of Ocean Microbes on Global Carbon Cycling
<p>The global ocean is a profoundly important ecosystem that regulates Earth&rsquo;s climate and is responsible for nearly half of the oxygen we breathe. Oceanographic concepts and marine microbial ec...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 18/03/2026
📣New today: A WHOI-led study uncovers a hidden mix of molecules released by marine phytoplankton, tiny compounds that feed ocean microbes and help power the planet’s carbon cycle. 📲Learn more about this @microbialplanet.bsky.social research: go.whoi.edu/phytoplankton-metabolites
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Eye in the Sky: Tiny But Mighty Plankton My interview on phytoplankton, satellite ocean color & carbon cycle 🌊 With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities podcast @uvaenvironment.bsky.social @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @microbialplanet.bsky.social withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/eye-...
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Eye in the Sky - With Good Reason
The science made possible by satellites.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So excited to share our newest paper on #marine #exometabolites. A great effort led by Yuting Zhu, Hanna Anderson, and others in the C-CoMP team www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean | PNAS
The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Ear...
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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If you're at #AGU25 stop by presentations from my lab! @microbialplanet.bsky.social bridge to PhD fellow @yunqianhu.bsky.social (also w/ @akrinos.bsky.social) will be presenting a poster Wednesday "OS33B-1119: Microbial Assemblages in the Context of Basin-Scale Variability Across the North Atlantic"
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Team work makes the dream work! We asked our cruise team and they agree - team work is essential for troubleshooting and creating a positive environment for all on board 🚢, laying the groundwork for forging lasting connections that last beyond the cruise! 🧪
Participants of the March 2025 C-CoMP cruise AE2504 sit together on the top of the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Photo shared by Ben Acosta.Co-chief scientists Elizabeth Kujawinski and Sonya Dyhrman hug and reflect as they watch the sunrise from the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer at the end of the second C-CoMP cruise, AE2520. Photo by Erin Maybach.Participants (left to right: Claire Garfield, Eleanor Lawrence, Amanda Ellis, and Emily Hu) of the September 2025 C-CoMP cruise AE2520 sit together on the R/V Atlantic Explorer as they wait to disembark from Bermuda for the cruise! Photo by Fadime Stemmer.Members of the cruise team work together to prepare the CTD rosette for deployment. Photo by Claire Garfield.
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Scientists from @microbialplanet.bsky.social 🌊 hosted a important panel at COP30 Ocean Pavilion Advocating for the Invisible Microbial Majority That Underpins a Healthy Planet Panel ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-...
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📣 Special thanks to our moderator and panelists for representing microbes 🦠 in the #oceanpavilion @cop30brazil.bsky.social in the only microbial panel at #cop30. Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!
A photo of the panel in session during COP30. The four panelists (from left to right: Marcia Macedo, Pearl Mitchell, Mariana Rocha de Souza, and Sonya Dyhrman) sit in front of a monitor that displays a photo of a kelp forest with the caption, microbes in kelp ecosystems. Pearl speaks and holds a microphone. Elizabeth Kujawinski, panel moderator, stands to Sonya's right behind a lectern. Photo by Danielle Fino, WHOI. The panel participants (left to right: Marcia Macedo, Pearl Mitchell, Mariana Rocha de Souza, Sonya Dyhrman, and Elizabeth Kujawinski) stand in front of a monitor displaying the name of the panel, Advocating for the Invisible Microbial Majority that underpins a healthy planet, in the Ocean Pavilion at COP30. Photo by Danielle Fino, WHOI.A photo taken outside of the COP30 conference building at night. Photo by Kilaparti Ramakrishna (Rama), WHOI.Elizabeth Kujawinski and Sonya Dyhrman stand in front of a backdrop of the Amazon River, underneath a sign that states Brasil COP30 Amazonia, Belem 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Kujawinski, WHOI.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @whoi.edu @climate.columbia.edu 🧪
Flyer advertising the COP30 panel session in the Ocean Pavilion titled: Advocating for the Invisible Microbial Majority that Underpins a Healthy Planet. The panel is scheduled to take place on Nov. 19 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm in the Ocean Pavilion, PV-D120.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Are you @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30 and interested in learning more about microbes 🦠 and how they impact our planet 🌎? Don't miss the panel hosted by our Director Elizabeth Kujawinski and Sonya Dyhrman @climate.columbia.edu tomorrow (Nov. 19) starting at 1:30 pm in the #OceanPavilion! 🧪
Drs. Sonya Dyhrman and Elizabeth Kujawinski stand together in front of the Ocean Pavilion sign during COP30 in Brazil. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-... @whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Interested in learning more about the people, samples, and research activities that were conducted on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise (@biosstation.bsky.social ➡️ @whoi.edu)? Well if you are, you are in luck! Check out our AE2504 cruise report: zenodo.org/records/1675... 🧪
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Cruise Report for AE2504 on R/V Atlantic Explorer
This is the cruise report for C-CoMP cruise AE2504 on the RV Atlantic Explorer that took place in March 2025. The goal of the AE2504 was to compare the microbial dynamics and processes in an oligotrop...
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
📣 C-CoMP Pub Alert! Check out this new paper that investigates how bacteria control heterotrophic respiration and net community production in the Sargasso Sea 🌊. Congrats to the authors 🎉! 🧪
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
📣New preprint alert! Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📣#MTTM Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
Headshot of Dr. Henry Holm. Henry holds an Erlenmeyer flask containing a phytoplankton culture while working in a lab at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Photo by Henry Holm. Henry and his colleague check for leaks in glass towers used to filter carbon samples aboard the RV Sarmiento de Gamboa (North Atlantic 2021). Photo by Marley Parker.Henry processes sediment trap samples on the deck of the RV Endeavor in the Gulf of Maine in 2021. Photo by Henry Holm.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! C-CoMP focuses on microbes & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is 🌊. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving rare visits from animals🐦!
A sunset at sea captured from the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Photo by Natalie Graham.A bird visits the R/V Atlantic Explorer (AE) during the 2025 C-CoMP September Cruise between Bermuda and Woods Hole, MA. The bird is perched on the arm of a chair that is on the deck of the AE. Photo by Irina Koester.The CTD rosette on the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during sunset in the Sargasso Sea. Photo by Emily Hu.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Congrats @maratimes.bsky.social!
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📣#MTTM Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
Annika Gomez stands next to the CTD rosette on the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer and monitors the transfer of seawater from Niskin bottles into carboys. Photo by Claire Garfield.Annika inspects the peristaltic pump in a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Photo by Claire Garfield.Annika works with Erin Maybach to process samples in a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Photo by Fadime Stemmer.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Had a fabulous time meeting with C-CoMP members last week at our Annual Meeting in Woods Hole. Thanks for all the great discussions 🧪🌊🦠💻🚢🌎! We are looking forward to an exciting year of investigating bioreactive molecules within the marine chemical-microbial network!
Group photo of C-CoMP members who attended the 2025 C-CoMP Annual meeting in-person and remotely. 50 people gather together at the front of a meeting room at WHOI. The people in the first row sit in chairs while the other two rows stand behind them. An image of the remote attendees is superimposed on the wall behind the in-person attendees. Photo taken and edited by Jayne Doucette, WHOI.A sub-group of ~14 people sit in a circle to discuss center progress and plans within a smaller focus-area. Photo by Laura Gray.C-CoMP members sit together at a table to build molecules out of Lego for one of Mak Saito's classes. A few members hold up their creations to feature them! Photo by Laura Gray.A group of 11 early career researchers take a break from the meeting to walk to the beach. They stand next to each other on a rocky/pebbly beach and are framed by a blue sky and a sliver of Vineyard Sound in the background. Photo by Claire Garfield.
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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Wrapping up a great week of science with some light LEGO dehydration synthesis! @microbialplanet.bsky.social @fuuchan20.bsky.social @maksaito.bsky.social
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! Once seawater lands on deck, it’s go time 🏁! Researchers frequently spend hours in the lab each day and night (!) filtering and processing samples and running incubations. Here are a few snapshots from lab work during the C-CoMP 2025 March Cruise, AE2504!
Ben Acosta (left) and Erin Maybach (right) work together to finish filtering seawater using peristaltic pumps. Erin holds a serological pipette in the air to help move the last few milliliters of seawater through the filter while Ben keeps other tubing in place over a carboy of seawater. Photo by Annika Gomez.Claire Garfield and McKenzie Powers monitor their filtering progress in the lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. They are both sitting and holding their carboys and tubing in place as they filter liters of seawater on a rocking ship. Photo by Erin Maybach.Natalie Graham processes samples for dissolved metabolite analysis in a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Seawater is first filtered and then the seawater filtrate is pushed through a cartridge using the method solid phase extraction (SPE) with a gentle vacuum. In the picture, Natalie stands in front of the lab bench and holds pieces of clear tubing that divert seawater from 2 bottles. The tubing moves seawater from the bottles into the SPE cartridges that are attached to the glass vacuum manifold. Photo provided by Natalie Graham.Ben Acosta (left) and Loay Jabre (right) process samples in a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the C-CoMP March cruise. Photo by Fadime Stemmer.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📣#MTTM Mariana Torres (martorres.bsky.social) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @rogierbraakman.bsky.social @mit.edu. Using computational methods, they are investigating environmental drivers of carbon cycle metabolism dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.
Headshot of Mariana Torres with the ocean in the background. Photo by Amanda Ellis.Mariana and Natalie Graham stand next to each other on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the C-CoMP September Cruise. Photo by Fadime Stemmer.Mariana processes samples on a bench in the lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the C-CoMP September Cruise. Photo by Fadime Stemmer.Mariana, Fadime Stemmer, Mario Uchimiya, and Justin Fujii take a picture together in a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the C-CoMP September Cruise. Photo by Mariana Torres.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!
The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer while making various fun poses. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📣#MTTM Jill Paquette is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working in the Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She uses computational approaches and lab culturing methods to investigate how nutrient stress affects the gene expression of eukaryotic phytoplankton 🌊🦠.
Headshot of Jill Paquette standing in a lab. Photo provided by Jill Paquette.Jill gives a "thumbs up" lab selfie while wearing safety glasses, a lab coat, and purple gloves. Photo provided by Jill Paquette.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!
Emily Hu (left) and Natalie Graham (right) prepare the drifter for deployment within a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Photo by Arianna Krinos. Emily Hu (unpictured), Natalie Graham, and Emily Tate deploy a drifter over the side of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 March C-CoMP cruise. Photo by Arianna Krinos. Daniella Asturias unpacks the drifters from their shipping box before the beginning of the March 2025 cruise. Photo by Emily Hu.A SVP drifter lays in the grass at BIOS during activation and testing before the beginning of the March 2025 cruise. Photo by Emily Hu.
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clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Successful dive and recovery to the eddy center, 18 sample depths down to 800 meters deep and engineering tests completed too.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Hey - check it out! @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social is exploring an eddy during the second C-CoMP cruise! We are excited to see how the eddy impacts microbial and metabolite dynamics. Stay tuned!
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Mak Saito @maksaito.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We're out at sea with C-COMP @microbialplanet.bsky.social and the AUV Clio. Clio's social media account has migrated from the other place to the blue place @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social , follow for mild sarcastic pseudo-first robot humor updates...
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clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Currently I'm at sea supporting C-COMP's chemical currencies research in the North Atlantic Ocean. (@microbialplanet.bsky.social).
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