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Natascha Varona

@nataschavarona.bsky.social
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(she/her), PhD, Viral ecology, coral reefs, and microbes 🪸🐠🦠 Sometimes I do art.

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What are the biggest open questions in #microbiome and #symbiosis research? At #CSEE, we’re running a symposium on disturbance, adaptation, and the parasitism–mutualism continuum—and we want to foster discussion around these questions. Share your questions (& this post) ↓ forms.gle/huhvTgZCWVrS...
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Big questions in symbiosis and microbiome research
As organizers of the upcoming CSEE symposium “Microbial symbiosis: disturbance, adaptation, and the parasitism–mutualism continuum”, we want this to be more than just a series of talks—we want it to s...
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Cynthia Silveira @cynthiasilveira.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
First, @jronwalker.bsky.social, @nataschavarona.bsky.social, and colleagues show that a decoupling between abundance and metabolism in sulfur-cycling bacteria in meromictic lakes is associated with viral replication strategies. Work funded by NASA Exobiology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Natascha Varona @nataschavarona.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Congrats @mmarbout.bsky.social and team! What a cool paper 🤩
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22/05/2025
International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation. Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down. Classic bully behavior. We Stand Up for International Students. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...
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Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students
International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
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Cynthia Silveira @cynthiasilveira.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Hi #phagesky! If you are curious about phages in geobiology and astrobiology, you will like this paper led by recent PhD grad from my lab, @nataschavarona.bsky.social, showing viral activity in analogs of early Earth environments 🧪 microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Cynthia Silveira @cynthiasilveira.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Yesterday, the first PhD student in my lab, @nataschavarona.bsky.social, defended her dissertation. A big day for us. Congratulations, Natascha, really well done!
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
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