Aquatic microbial ecologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, @umeauniversity, french, proud dad, sci-fi enthusiast

Joined February 2012
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In the December issues of @aslo_org Limnology and Oceanography Letters is published our (Pieńskowski et al) open access paper on 'Sedimentary ancient DNA and HBI biomarkers as sea‐ice indicators: A complementary approach in Antarctic fjord environments' aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msystems.014…
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🔔Have you ever been wonder if there is life on #Mars? I am hiring a fully-funded 4 year #PhDposition in my group @yesilbaslab. Application deadline is Nov 15, 2024. Please feel free to share with your network and potential candidates! #spectroscopy nature.com/naturecareers/job…
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📢New job alert!!! We are looking for a postdoc to work on the enrichment and isolation of new archaeal species. Contact us if you are interested!
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15 Oct 2024
🔶I #FridayTalk I🔶 🌊 This Friday we invite you to a special session: ‘Four decades of aquatic microbial ecology: A journey with Carlos Pedrós-Alió’, coordinated by our colleagues @pepgppepgp and @RMassanaM 📍 18 October, 10:00 - 14:00h (ICM-CSIC) 🔗icm.csic.es/en/esdeveniment/…
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In spring 2025, Antje Boetius, Director @AWI_de & Group Leader @Habitat_MPI @maxplanckpress, will be appointed president @MBARI_News. We all wish her lots of success and sunshine in California! mpi-bremen.de/en/Antje-Boeti…
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🎉 Exciting news! We've just published MVP: a Modular Viromics Pipeline 🦠✨ journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10…
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TREC expedition formed a special community to study coastal ecosystems and their response to environment. The TREC symposium reunited this community, sharing the first insights and discussing the next directions of this project. What a memory to add to our photo album! 💚
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Now published in The ISME Journal! academic.oup.com/ismej/advan…
Our new preprint is out! We reported>280 novel giant virus genomes and their spatiotemporal distribution in Lake Biwa using seasonal long-read metagenomics, including hypolimnion-specific GV lineages and the first freshwater Mirusvirus genomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Our latest research, titled "Taxonomic and abundance biases affect the record of #marine #eukaryotic plankton communities in #sedimentDNA archives" has just been published in Molecular Ecology Resources! 🎉📷 #eDNA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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Announcing the mSystems special collection on microbial dormancy | mSystems journals.asm.org/eprint/Q6N7…
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Thanks (again) everyone 😊, and many thanks to @ASMicrobiology ! To me, it is also a recognition of the entire viral ecogenomics field, and I feel very (very) lucky to work alongside brillant, supportive, kind, and overall just awesome scientists 🥰.
Please join us in congratulating #NMDC team member Simon Roux, who was awarded the 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize! 🎉 We’re so excited to see his hard work honored by @ASMicrobiology ! @simroux_virus
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🔊Resilience and Sustainability 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship DDL: October 15, 2024 $62K $10K for res./year DM me if you're interested in developing proposals on #coralreefs #symbiosis #foodwebs and the people and services they support. @stri_panama
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Two Umeå University researchers are awarded ERC Starting Grants, for young researchers at the beginning of their careers. They are Iker Valle Aramburu, a new MIMS group leader, and Gerard Rocher-Ros at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science. umu.se/en/news/two-young-res…
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"A @SedimentaryDNA perspective about the influence of environmental and food-web changes on the microbial eukaryotic community of Lake Biwa" shorturl.at/WUYYu
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Incredibly proud to share this work, almost 6 years in the making, out in @ScienceMagazine!!! 🎇 We've known for over a century that eukaryotes of all kinds anticipate the seasons (think: hibernation, flowering, reproduction), but what about bacteria?🦠 science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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I'm excited to share that today was my first day as an Assistant Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences (@waterscienceUWM) at UW - Milwaukee! I am very excited to join the great faculty at this one-of-a-kind program, especially in my home state and a city I love.
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