Congrats to our great friend and collaborator OnishiLab_Duke on their U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award!! 🤩🥳

Happy to announce that I received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award for our project on actomyosin-ring-independent cytokinesis and its coordination with chloroplast division. I'm grateful for the members of my lab, collaborators, and friends and for the support from Duke University Duke Biology.

The 2024 #GRC on Unifying Ecology across Scales is happening soon! Come join us! This GRC will seek to understand how common currencies and scaling principles can help us predict how natural systems will respond to human impacts. Check out the amazing speakers! 1/2

In an unprecedented new move, Congress has slashed this year’s National Science Foundation budget by 8%. scim.ag/6ht

Confocal microscopy was used to capture the detail of the cilia – tiny hairs used by the animals for feeding and locomotion – on these single-cell freshwater protozoans. #WednesdayWisdom

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Credit: Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

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Temperature and CO2 interactively drive shifts in the compositional and functional structure of peatland protist communities

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Christopher Kilner, PhD Gibert Lab Duke University Duke Biology Dan Wieczynski

Climate change alters the hidden microbial food web in peatlands. Here's why that matters: today.duke.edu/2024/03/climat… Led by
Christopher Kilner, PhD Gibert Lab Duke Biology and Oak Ridge Lab
DOE Office of Science Simons Foundation Duke Research & Innovation

Finally out in peer-reviewed format

'Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to #climatechange ' 🐟 just published in NatureClimate

check the #OpenAccess 🔓 paper here

👉nature.com/articles/s4155…

Very excited that our work on Parameter Identifiability in PDE Models of Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) is out at the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology!
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I am recruiting a PhD student to work on microbial communities in Arctic ecosystems. This is a great opportunity for someone interested in combining field, lab, and computational approaches. If you are interested, message me for more information.

🌡️ and CO2 interaction drives functional divergence despite compositional convergence in boreal peatland protist communities.

Led by Christopher Kilner, PhD
w/ dream team from Duke Biology and Oak Ridge Lab

DOE Office of Science Simons Foundation Duke Research & Innovation Duke Biology

📢Join us tomorrow for our online seminar! Holly Moeller (UCSB) Holly Moeller, @mixotrophe at other places too will present:

⭐️Trade, Borrow, or Steal: Combining math and experiments to understand acquired metabolism
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Free to all to join!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix…

Positioning of negative feedback loops within immune signaling pathways influences host fitness through noise in AMP expression biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to my great friend and colleague Silva Lab at Duke for his tenure Duke University! So richly deserved, to more and greater ubiquitin adventures! 🤩⭐️💫

I am DELIGHTED to share this paper. It began with a rejection - my NSF postdoc fellowship wasn't funded in its first round. But Kim Rosvall invested in me anyhow and we began this massive comparative project on aggression, testosterone, and neurogenomics. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mass Mortality Events 😵restructure food webs through trophic decoupling. 🦈

Amazing work led by no-tt Simon Tye and partners in crime Adam Siepielski and Samuel Fey

Cover nature

What happens when predators die? Gibert Lab, University of Arkansas’s Adam Siepielski, Reed College's Samuel Fey and lead author Simon Tye have this week's nature cover story. Duke Research & Innovation

Fish are smaller in warmer climes - all guilds except piscivores!!

As climate change accelerates, reductions in #fish body sizes are predicted to be a widespread response to warming

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Our new #OpenAccess paper is out in Population Ecology: 'Frequency-dependent community dynamics driven by sexual interactions' with Kaoru Tsuji, Shoko Sakai, and Erik Svensson doi.org/10.1002/1438-3…