Director of Science & Senior Research Fellow @thembauk l Professor of Marine Microbiology @PlymUni l @marinemicrobes.bsky.social
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Meet the fungi that live in the sea theconversation.com/meet-the… @PlymUni @thembauk @PlymUniMI @ConversationUK @ConversationUS @ERC_Research @AnnaTurns 🌊🍄🔬🧬
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Will we get a #chytrid emoji!?!
@IUCNAquaFungi @IUCNfungi #fungi #chytrids theguardian.com/environment/…
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
New research could transform our understanding of global ocean health and unlock advances in plankton science 🦐🐟🪼
plymouth.ac.uk/news/pairing-…
ALT The Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey has been monitoring the oceans since 1931. Picture credit: Marine Biological Association
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Chytrid sporangium is ready to release zoospores. @thembauk
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🐟☔ 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
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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/XUTfGqq3tpgL7zqT8—it only takes a minute!
Spread the word & save the date! 🗓️ @EMM_Barcelona @ICMCSIC
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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 👇👇
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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/researc…
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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!🥳
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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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ALT On the left is the structural output from the AlphaFold 3 server colored by pLDDT, which requires structural knowledge for interpretation. On the right is the AlphaBridge ring output, where the results are pre-analyzed and visually presented, making them easier to understand.
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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/department… join a lovely bunch of talented PGRs
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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/
ALT AVW12 title page
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
📢 Exciting #PhD alert! Study Atlantic bluefin #tuna in Southwest UK waters using #drones, remote sensing, #ocean profiling & eDNA. Help ensure sustainable management and recovery of these apex #predators! #Anglers🐟 #TeamFish
👉plymouth.ac.uk/study/researc…
#MarineResearchPlymouth
Michael Cunliffe 🏳️🌈 retweeted
If you have expertise in #ML and an interest in the marine environment, please look at this opportunity with the awesome Nicolas Pugeault: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS129/resear…
You will be working on the @NERCscience funded DEAL project (pml.ac.uk/projects/deal-dece…).