Promoting a mechanistic understanding of the chemical currencies in marine microbial ecosystems in the context of a changing planet and through increased participation in ocean sciences
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The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) leverages recent advances in analytical and data sciences, incorporates new ocean sampling technologies and an open-science framework, and engages scientists, educators, and policy-makers who bring a diversity of expertise, experiences, and viewpoints to bear on promoting a deeper understanding and appreciation of the chemicals and microbial processes that underpin ocean ecosystems and other microbiomes that affect our daily life.
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The marine chemical-microbial network is busy processing organic matter from photosynthesis during the day ☀️, but what happens at night ✨?
A recent C-CoMP contribution from Dr. Rogier Braakman and colleagues explores a component of this question in their article: Global niche partitioning of purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding among ocean microbes.
Link to article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1949
Photo by @el_viaje_de_xavi
#fieldworkfriday #milkyway #milkyway_nightscapes #oceanasthetic #oceanography #metabolites #diel #network #marinemicrobes #phytoplankton #photosynthesis #primaryproduction #teamscience #nsf #nsffunded #scienceandtechnology
#MTTM
Natalie Graham, a Bridge-to-PhD fellow in Dr. Elizabeth Kujawinski’s Lab @whoi.ocean, has entered the world of metabolomics and analytical chemistry 🧪 through her participation in C-CoMP. She currently investigates production and uptake of exometabolites by marine phytoplankton on different timescales. In Natalie’s words, by understanding “what” is produced “when” and by “who”, we can better grasp how microbes regulate ecosystem functioning.
Natalie had always been fascinated by understanding how marine biogeochemical cycles, and the marine microbes 🦠 that drive them, are impacted by perturbations. After C-CoMP, Natalie plans to continue her study of marine microbes and their ecological and biogeochemical impacts, potentially by focusing on microbial dynamics in coral reef ecosystems 🌊🪸.
#metabolomics #metabolites #analyticalchemistry #marinemicrobes #phytoplankton #marinemicrobiology #oceanography #ocean #nutrientcycling #oceanliteracy #science #nsffunded #scienceandtechnology #bridge2phd #bridgetophd
Throwback to cruising across the Sargasso Sea on the @rvatlanticexplorer while surrounded by expansive, panoramic views of the ocean.
Photo taken by Mica Yang during the C-CoMP @biosstation Research Week.
#fieldworkfriday #ccompresearchweek #bios #rvatlanticexplorer #asthetic #oceanasthetic #bermuda #sargassosea #oceanography #metabolites #marinemicrobes #phytoplankton #primaryproduction #teamscience #bridge2phd #nsffunded #scienceandtechnology
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Claire Garfield is a graduate student @universityofga and co-advised by Drs. Mary Ann Moran and Arthur Edison. Claire uses metabolomic and physiological approaches to understand how bacteria 🦠 drive the fate of organic carbon cycling in the surface ocean.
Bacteria take up organic carbon and partition it for respiration and growth. The identity of these carbon sources and their post-uptake fate have major climatic consequences but are still mostly mysterious. Claire is working to unravel some of this mystery through her research.
In her free time, Claire enjoys wandering outside 🌊🏔️🌳.
#metabolomics #metabolites #marinemicrobes #bacteria #marinebacteria #marinemicrobiology #oceanography #carbon #organiccarbon #ocean #respiration #climate #nutrientcycling #oceanliteracy #science #nsffunded #scienceandtechnology
C-CoMP in the news
JANUARY 06, 2025
An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes
MIT News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
ASLO honors Elizabeth B. Kujawinski with the 2024 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
WHOI News Release
JANUARY 17, 2024
Digital Microbe: A genome-informed data integration framework for collaborative research on emerging model organisms
preLights
JUNE 20, 2023
Research Week Opens the World of Oceanography for C-CoMP Students
BIOS Currents Newsletter
JANUARY 10, 2023
Bridge-to-PhD program at WHOI opens doors for new scientists
Oceanus
C-CoMP Fellowships
Science and Education Themes
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C-CoMP is a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (Award # 2019589) that is based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of C-CoMP and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.