Posts by Laura Gray
How to mentor early career researchers in making and presenting posters
An important step for undergraduates in gaining independence as a researcher is being able to effectively communicate their findings. When undergraduates first start to present their research, they are usually…
Read MoreStudents set sail as part of the University of Florida short course on Microbial Life in the Oceans
The spring 2024 semester was quite eventful for the Durham lab at the University of Florida (UF). With leadership from Dr. Bryndan P. Durham and collaboration with C-CoMP postdoctoral fellow…
Read MoreC-CoMP at Ocean Sciences 2024!
This past February, more than twenty C-CoMP faculty, staff, technical staff, postdocs, graduate students, and Bridge-to-PhD Fellows attended the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM24) in New Orleans, LA. C-CoMP members…
Read More2023 C-CoMP Annual Meeting
C-CoMP recently hosted its second Annual Meeting at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, MA, with 63 members attending in-person and 11 members attending remotely. A majority…
Read MoreA CURE for Ocean Carbon Cycling
C-CoMP recently hosted a team of teaching-intensive university faculty to collaborate on the design of a new Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience, the Ocean Genes CURE. This introductory-level CURE[1] is grounded…
Read MoreDeveloping C-CoMP’s Open Science Framework
Open science is a foundational and uniting component of C-CoMP’s research and knowledge transfer goals. Over the past year, C-CoMP has collectively taken two major steps to support and sustain…
Read MoreC-CoMP Attends COP27!
This graphic contains photos from Dr. Sonya Dyhrman’s visit to COP27. Dr. Sonya Dyhrman, Professor at Columbia University and member of the C-CoMP Faculty, attended the COP27 United Nations Climate…
Read MoreC-CoMP’s First In-Person Meeting
C-CoMP’s First In-Person Meeting In October 2022, C-CoMP hosted its first in-person annual meeting at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA! This was a momentous occasion for C-CoMP,…
Read MoreCall for abstracts for ASLO 2023: Session SS116 – Metabolites in the Chemical-Microbe Network
Call for abstracts for ASLO 2023: Session SS116 – Metabolites in the Chemical-Microbe Network C-CoMP is convening a session at the 2023 ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting held in Palma de…
Read MoreThe Ruegeria pomeroyi digital microbe
In this blog post, we’ll share the details of our first digital microbe – Ruegeria pomeroyi, one of C-CoMP’s model organisms – and demonstrate how easy it is to work with data in these self-contained, self-describing, programmatically-queryable SQLite databases made using anvi’o (an open-source software platform). This strategy offers several benefits, such as the ability to share multiple datasets by providing a single link, and the ability to easily analyze and interactively visualize these data.
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