Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈
@sea_bugs
Director of Science & Senior Research Fellow @thembauk l Professor of Marine Microbiology @PlymUni l @marinemicrobes.bsky.social
Meet the fungi that live in the sea theconversation.com/meet-the-fungi… @PlymUni @thembauk @PlymUniMI @ConversationUK @ConversationUS @ERC_Research @AnnaTurns 🌊🍄🔬🧬
Summertime marine heatwaves (MHWs) in 2023/2024 were unprecedented and had wide-ranging biological, physical and societal impacts. Need to develop better response plans and adaptation/intervention approaches as MHWs intensify under climate change: nature.com/articles/s4155…
Will we get a #chytrid emoji!?! @IUCNAquaFungi @IUCNfungi #fungi #chytrids theguardian.com/environment/20…
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New research could transform our understanding of global ocean health and unlock advances in plankton science 🦐🐟🪼 plymouth.ac.uk/news/pairing-o…
Chytrid sporangium is ready to release zoospores. @thembauk
🐟☔ A few days under the Spanish rain brought the @MARCOBOLO_EU team together! 🌊 We are connecting the dots to improve aquatic biodiversity monitoring! Exciting things are on the horizon—stay tuned! 🚢📊🔊 👉marcobolo-project.eu #Marine #Freshwater #Coastal #Biodiversity
Last chance to apply for this unique competition-funded NERC GW4+ PhD - joint with @NHM_London Natural History Museum exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (entry sept 2025)!! Interdisciplinary project hosted @LSI_Exeter #cilia #parasite #snails #biophysics #schistosome
Exciting news for aquatic microbial ecologists! The 18th SAME meeting will take place in Barcelona (Sept 28–Oct 3, 2025) 🧬🌊 Interested? Pls, share your details here: forms.gle/XUTfGqq3tpgL7z…—it only takes a minute! Spread the word & save the date! 🗓️ @EMM_Barcelona @ICMCSIC
A paper from my #PhD is now out in @AMI_LAMJournal, on depth-dependent #bacterial colonisation on #chitin particles in the #NorthAtlantic open #ocean shorturl.at/v6g5W @PAP_observatory @CLASS_UKRI @sea_bugs @CyanoEvo @Kimberley_EBird @NOCnews @thembauk 🦠🦐🌊 see more 👇👇
Looking for a #marine PhD using a mix of highly advanced tools and being out at sea in search of one of the ocean's most fascinating fish right on our doorstep? I'm offering the below PhD with @BD_Stew , @PeterIMiller and @sea_bugs @PlymUniMI @PlymUniMI plymouth.ac.uk/study/research…
Congratulations to @Marinebioyaz who today successfully defended her PhD investigating diatom phosphate sensing mechanisms! Many thanks to her examiners @quietscientist and Alison Baker alongside co-supervisors @marinebugs and @GLWheeler2
Many congratulations @ElejaneMBO for successfully defending her PhD thesis 🥂 "Understanding the evolution of the apical organ in the early branching metazoan, Nematostella vectensis." Thanks to examiner team @RobertoFeuda, Chiara Boschetti @jhallspencer My first PhD student!🥳
Join us for a new EMBO/EMBL Symposium on 'Wild frontiers of model organisms' in 2025 ❗ Bottom line: - great line up of speakers: McFall-Ngai,Raina, Prakash etc... - explore old models but in new context or ways of building new model systems s.embl.org/ees25-02 1/n
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Very happy EXPAND is funded!!
📢 Results of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out. €678 million for 328 researchers. Who won funding? What will they investigate? Where will they conduct their research? #ERCCoG news 👉 europa.eu/!gWqYfc 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU
Honoured and grateful to have been awarded an #ERCCoG on our work on antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions @UniofExeter @thembauk. Thanks to @ERC_Research and all those who supported me along the way. Stay tuned for PhD and postdoc opportunities - get in touch to hear more!
📢 Results of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out. €678 million for 328 researchers. Who won funding? What will they investigate? Where will they conduct their research? #ERCCoG news 👉 europa.eu/!gWqYfc 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU
If you want to join the group then multiple opportunities available at the moment. If you don't like what we do then we've got you covered there too! Funded PhD projects for UK and Overseas students in our Department: findaphd.com/phds/departmen… join a lovely bunch of talented PGRs
For those working on viruses in aquatic environments, mark your calendars and consider submitting an abstract for Aquatic Virus Workshop 12 (AVW12) to be held in Banyuls-sur-Mer, May 5-9, 2025. Limited to 125 in total (register early). avw12.sciencesconf.org