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📣 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/

📣🌊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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📣🌊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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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
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A few weeks ago, our Bridge-to-PhD fellows attended the 2026 @aslo_org-SIL 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/
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Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) retweeted
New paper led by Hannah Goldberg on the diversity of hydrogen peroxide detoxification in marine microbes! Wonderful @microbialplanet collaboration with Sonya Dyhrman, @Michelleofseas and Gwen Hennon! enviromicro-journals.onlinel…
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📣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. ccomp-stc.org/b2p/

📣 We are now 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!
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📣 We are now 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!
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📣 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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📣 C-CoMP Publication Alert! Looking for more information about metabolites that marine phytoplankton 🌊🦠 excrete into their surrounding environment? Look no further - check out our recently published paper that's linked below ⬇️!
The final version of our paper is out! Congrats to @YutingZhu5, Hanna Anderson and the rest of the team at @MicrobialPlanet Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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🌊🦠#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!
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📣 Special thanks to our moderator @LizKuj and panelists for representing microbes 🦠 in the #oceanpavilion @Cop30noBrasil 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 🌎!
📣Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @Cop30noBrasil #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @WHOI @columbiaclimate
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📣Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @Cop30noBrasil #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @WHOI @columbiaclimate
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Are you @Cop30noBrasil #COP30 and interested in learning more about microbes and how they impact our planet 🌎? Don't miss the panel hosted by our Director @LizKuj (@WHOI) and Sonya Dyhrman @columbiaclimate tomorrow (Nov. 19) starting at 1:30 pm in the #OceanPavilion!
📣 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 ideas for including the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future: ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-co… @WHOI
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Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) retweeted
At @Cop30noBrasil? Be sure to come by the #OceanPavilion this Wednesday (19 Nov) at 1:30 pm for a panel exploring the role of microbes in our climate! A great chance to hear from @MicrobialPlanet director & WHOI sr. scientist @LizKuj
📣 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 ideas for including the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future: ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-co… @WHOI
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📣 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 ideas for including the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future: ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-co… @WHOI

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📣New preprint alert! Check out this new preprint by @YutingZhu5 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!
Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @YutingZhu5 and Hanna Anderson! A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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📣#MTTM Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @Columbia @lamontdoherty. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
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Henry's PhD research investigated how marine phytoplankton adapt their lipid membranes to a range of environmental conditions. Now he studies how phytoplankton may cycle carbon differently in future oceans that are hotter & more acidic using culturing and 'omics methods.
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