Researcher @ace_uq passionate about coral reefs, microbes, and marine science. Find me on Bluesky
Joined September 2014
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Laura Rix retweeted
25 Jul 2024
Our work on how genome duplication shaped evolution of a coral symbiont is out in @ScienceAdvances! A product of 6yrs of my PhD & postdoc w/ @dorkyM, I've never been prouder of a piece of work. Great collab w/ @uts_c3 @FIU @RutgersSEBS @aims_gov_au @ace_uq shorturl.at/6kjTN
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Laura Rix retweeted
14 Jul 2023
🦠🌍microplanet.at Interested in working with us in Austria on how 'Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health'? >30 PostDoc & >16 PhD positions available in our Cluster of Excellence. Wide range of topics at the interface of environmental & medical microbiome sciences @FWF_at
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Laura Rix retweeted
27 Apr 2023
PhD student opportunity in symbiotic nutrient cycling in Cnidaria 🪸🔬in Anders Meibom’s Lab for Biological Geochemistry at @EPFL_en @epflENAC co-supervised by me, available ASAP, applications due by the end of May. Please RT widely! #coral reefs #symbiosis #NanoSIMS
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Laura Rix retweeted
4 Apr 2023
Exciting postdoc opportunity in Switzerland in Anders Meibom's Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry: coral microbiology, bac genetics, imaging @EPFL_en @epflENAC available ASAP, applications due by the end of April. Please RT widely! #coralreefs #marinemicrobiology #symbiosis
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Laura Rix retweeted
21 Oct 2022
Great opportunity for an exciting, fun, and challenging #PhD project in #genomics #bioinformatics of heat-evolved #dinoflagellate #microalgae #coral #symbiont based at @Macquarie_Uni Sydney with @BuergerPatrick, @spectacularia @BioSci_UniMelb and me @ace_uq @UQ_SCMB Please RT
21 Oct 2022
PhD opportunity for Australian domestic students in bioinformatics and genomics with @dorkyM, @spectacularia and myself. >Comparative genomics of heat-evolved microalgae. Interested? Please send me an email. Start early 2023. Competitive scholarship application through MQ Uni.
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Laura Rix retweeted
27 Sep 2022
Interested in #symbiont transmission in #sponges? Here a new mode of vertical #transmission is described in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta.
@Pam_Engelberts @NWebster_Micro @StevenJRobbins @lnrix
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Laura Rix retweeted
23 Jul 2021
Check out our newest paper on partitioning DOM uptake in #sponges! In sponges with few microbial symbionts, host cells drive DOM uptake, while microbes mop up waste products
@SpongeLoop @JoelleSprong @lnrix
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23 Jul 2021
Host versus microbial symbiont uptake of dissolved organic matter (DOM) was quantified in two Caribbean sponges. Authors found that sponge cells are predominantly responsible for DOM uptake, while symbiotic microbes recycle the waste-products of the host.➡️bit.ly/meps_670_1
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Laura Rix retweeted
24 Jun 2021
#ASLO2021 Session SS40 host-microbiome interactions coming up! Interested in marine microbiology and symbiosis? Join my talk on the marine #sponge #microbiome and #symbiont transmission. Saturday 26th of June, 12pm UTC.
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Laura Rix retweeted
New job! 👉Consider yourself highly skilled in #molecularbiology, #microbiology, #biochemistry or #microscopy?
We’re looking for an experimental & laboratory technician to research invertebrate species within tropical #ecosystems.
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Laura Rix retweeted
21 May 2021
Great overview by @AIMSatJCU PhD student Emma Marrangon on microbiome‑mediated mechanisms contributing to environmental tolerance of reef invertebrates rdcu.be/ckW6B
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Laura Rix retweeted
18 May 2021
Calling #environmemtal #science or #management students interested in #rehabilitation research. Come and do a placement with me at Qld Department of Environment and Science looking at rehab of #mining voids des.qld.gov.au/__data/assets…
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Laura Rix retweeted
15 Apr 2021
Exciting opportunity for a postdoc to join our team @ace_uq, identifying microbial inducers of coral settlement within the #greatbarrierreef Reef Restoration & Adaptation Program! Collaboration with @aims_gov_au #marinemicrobialecology #metagenomics search.careers.uq.edu.au/caw…
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Laura Rix retweeted
14 Apr 2021
If you are enthusiastic about developing and implementing ideas and activities that target and grow the early career microbial ecologists community, join the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee. Send your application before May 16th. isme-microbes.org/call-new-m…
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Laura Rix retweeted
18 Feb 2021
I'm beyond excited to announce that our article with @CRC1182 and @BEDutilh is now online @ISMEJournal!
Be prepared for amazing #phage #eukaryote #microbiome interplay in #sponges and a new #CLEM imaging approach to spot #viruses in animals. Trailer⬇️
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Congrats to @Meggie_Hudspith on the publication of her first PhD chapter in @MicrobiomeJ! Sponge symbionts recycle host waste products and retain limiting nutrients. Check out the video abstract. #sponge #symbiosis @spongeloop @SimsNano
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Laura Rix retweeted
26 Jan 2021
exciting new work in @PNASNews pnas.org/content/118/5/e2022… in a nutshell 'corals bleach before they pale': corals starve before zoox r gone cos sugars come no more, putting long-held beliefs upside down. Shouts to Nils R who saw it through from the start of his PhD @unikonstanz
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Laura Rix retweeted
5 Oct 2020
Our @Microbiome paper on sponge viruses and their auxiliary metabolic genes is finally out: rdcu.be/b71mv Check out the video abstract produced by @researchsquare for quick summary of our main findings.
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Laura Rix retweeted
2 Jul 2020
Please RT this needs visibility. Support your taxonomist! 👇
30 Jun 2020
"Zootaxa with no 2019 based Impact Factor (excluded due to an excessive concentration of self-citations)" by Marcin Kaminski
Well, how to start commenting this? Go taxonomy! They say "Publish taxonomic papers in your own low impact journals." And then... boom! No impact at all.
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Check out our latest work using #nanosims to disentangle host and symbiont contributions to sponge heterotrophy now online @ISMEJournal with @martintjahn @ute_hentschel @SpongeLoop
#SpongeThursday #symbiosis
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