@JordanASims_

George Mason U PhD candidate in Environmental Science & Policy 🌏 Rice ‘20 🦉 Microbial ecologist 🧬 Coral lover 🪸 Texan at heart 🤠 she/her 🏳️‍🌈

 Alexandria, VA
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Joined August 2018
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vAMPirus: a comprehensive pipeline for virus amplicon data analysis. We demonstrate its use on DNA and RNA virus datasets and reveal corallivore fish feces as a reservoir of Symbiodiniaceae-infecting viruses. Check it out! shorturl.at/0I31n #coralreefs #virusbioinformatics

vAMPirus: A versatile amplicon processing and analysis program for studying viruses

Amplicon sequencing is an effective and increasingly applied method for studying viral communities in the environment. Here, we present vAMPirus, a user-friendly, comprehensive, and versatile DNA...

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Excited to share preliminary results from one of my dissertation chapters today at #OSM24! Find me at poster 575 in Marine Ecosystems Across Scales, Time, and Biology (4-6pm) to chat about biofilm assembly, succession, and benthic invert settlement on coral reefs 🪸 #SLIME
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Out today in @ISMEJournal thru extensive #TEM imaging, we show that a diversity of coral symbionts contain filamentous virus-like particles (fVLPs) see ⬇️for highlights
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Microbial Ecology vs. Microbiology
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Join us in honoring the legacy of Beth Buchanan, a quietly strong member of the Rice community whose impact will never be forgotten. Her story shows the power of perseverance and dedication. zurl.co/QkK5
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We tracked a coral-associated virus lineage at the reef scale - in >50 coral colonies over 3+ years! 🪸  Excited to share our new paper on viruses that infect coral dinoflagellate symbionts (aka 'dinoRNAVs') out today @ISMEComms @RiceUniversity @CorreaLab news.rice.edu/news/2023/ocea…

Ocean warming intensifies viral outbreaks within corals

A groundbreaking three-year study has found evidence that ocean warming can trigger outbreaks of viruses that attack the symbiotic algae inside corals.

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Hi coral microbe people, Can anyone recommend a reference paper for “good” vs “bad” bacteria in the coral microbiome? I’m disseminating the results of my 16S data and what bacteria may be beneficial versus opportunistic or harmful. #AcademicTwitter #coralmicrobiome
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Check out the latest from @vegathurberlab (Denise Silva, @hannah_eps & @VegaThurber) describing how to look at 16S in corals! 🦠🪸 frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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The AWESOME undergrad I mentored this semester, Teagan Corpening, presented her ongoing research at GMU's Celebration of Student Scholarship last week! See her talk on succession in small-scale reef communities: tinyurl.com/URSP-Teagan or check out the highlights in this thread!
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Teagan found differences in the communities on the tops and bottoms of the tiles, with more fleshy macroalgae on the tops and more biofilm and invertebrate settlers on the bottoms. She thinks this may have been driven by increased light on the top sides promoting algal growth.
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Surprisingly, Teagan did NOT find any changes in community composition through time, possibly due to the small sample size. She is excited to see if this changes as she continues this project and adds additional timepoints and replicates next semester!
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Don’t wait to learn programming to start analyzing your genomics datasets. There are plenty of graphical user interface tools that require 0 programming knowledge. Every student deserves to experience that aha moment and the joy of discovery 😀! Here are some of my fav tools- 🧵
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The Archer was here 🏹 RT IF YOU WANT IT
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#coral and #invertebrate folks! Please help us with ID of this lavender creature?! Thank you! 🌊🪸 Location: Honduras #taxonomy
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Roatan Day 10: full research day for the interns. The weather was calm, so we were able to make it to the windward south side of the island to dive. We visited a site close to the largest city on the island because many interns’ project relate to anthropogenic impacts on the reef
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Intern spotlight: Gina is studying the microplastics found in three species of sponges from areas of high vs low human impact due to sponges’ role as water filters.
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