August 28, 2019

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The latest research from our group talks about microbial communities on microplastics related to weathering and biofilms, and is out in Microbial Ecology !

June 28, 2019

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The Christie-Oleza lab is moving to the University of the Balearic Islands, with a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship!

Thank you the University of Warwick!

June 10, 2019

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The latest research from our group about the genome of the hydrocarbon degrading bacterium Alcanivorax is out now in Marine Genomics!

June 3, 2019

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The latest work from the lab, on using artificial selection on whole microbial communities to improve degradation of the natural polymer chitin, is out in Microbiome!

May 09, 2019

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Audam Chhun was awarded a prize for the poster he presented at the Copenhagen Bioscience Conference on Natural Product, which took place in Copenhagen, in May 2019!

March 28, 2019

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Third time in a row for our group! 

Following Despoina Sousoni in 2017, and Gabriel Erni Cassola in 2018, Robyn Wright was awarded the Best Seminar Presentation prize, voted for by staff, with her amazing talk "Food or a free ride? The ability of a marine microbial community to degrade plastics", during the School of Life Sciences Postgraduate Symposium that was held at Warwick University, on March 27-28, 2019. 

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March 1, 2019

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Our most recent paper from the lab, a meta-analysis of the distribution of plastics in marine environments and how different polymer types segregate through the water column, is out in Journal of Hazardous Materials!

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January 30, 2019

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Robyn Wright and Audam Chhun will attend the Annual Microbiology Conference, which will take place in Belfast, in April 2019. 

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Robyn will actually give two talks! Go see her in the Meeting Room 2 for the session "Biobased circular economy and bioremediation" at 10:30, on Wednesday 10 April. She will talk about her current PhD project that focusses on the ability of a marine microbial community to degrade plastics! You can also see her in the Hall 2A for the sessions "Focus on 3Rs – the growing role of organoids and microbial models to understand human and animal diseases" at 17:12, on Wednesday 10 April. She will talk about her previous work on using an individual-based model to study bacterial coping mechanisms for aging!

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Audam will talk about his current PhD project that focusses on natural product discovery in marine microbes. Go see him in Hall 2B, at 14:45 on Wednesday 10 April!

January 24, 2019

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We have an opening for a Postdoc to join our group! Working as part of the large NERC funded project 'Plastic vectors' aiming to analyse the molecular biology that takes place in biofilms on microplastics.

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You have until the 24th of February to apply! 

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Click below if you want to have more information.

November 19-23, 2018

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Robyn Wright, Gabriel Erni-Cassola and Vinko Zadjelovic-Varas attended the International Conference MICRO2018 - Fate and Impacts of Microplastics: Knowledge, Actions and Solutions - which took place in Lanzarote in November 2018. 

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They all gave great talks about their research on microplastics! If you want to learn more about MICRO2018, click here.

October 01, 2018

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James Kerr, a new MIBTP-funded Ph.D. student, joins our group! He will be working on marine phototroph-heterotroph interactions! Welcome James!

September 22, 2018

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Robyn Wright has her own website!

"I decided to start a blog about 'mainly marine'/PhD things, trying to keep to a no-science-background level."

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If you like marine things, go take a look at her awesome blog!

August 17, 2018

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Joseph Christie-Oleza was presenting some of the group's work, explaining how marine phototroph-heterotroph interactions are being propelled by cross-feeding, at the 17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, ISME17! The symposium was held in Leipzig, Germany on August 12-17, 2018.

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Thanks @MicrobeDaniels for the picture!

April 30, 2018

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Gabriel Erni-Cassola was invited to present his amazing work on microplastic detection using Nile red at the Microplastic Methods Workshop - achieving new standards! The workshop will be held in London, UK, on May 23, 2018. 

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April 27, 2018

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Audam Chhun was awarded the first prize for Best Poster, with his great poster "Microbial conflicts in the oceans: a source a new natural products?", during the MIBTP Postgraduate Symposium that was held at Leicester University, on April 27, 2018. 

April 24, 2018

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Robyn Wright and Gabriel Erni-Cassola will both be presenting their exciting research at the 15th Marine Biological Association Postgraduate Conference! The conference will be held in Plymouth, UK, on May 21-23, 2018. Don't miss their talks! You can follow the event on Twitter @MBAconference18.

April 5, 2018

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The whole team is heading to Mallorca for a week of intensive work! The program is field work in the sea for a few of us and paper writing for the others! 

March 20, 2018

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Our very own Gabriel Erni-Cassola was awarded a prize as part of the top five Best Seminars, with his great talk "Not so fantastic microplastics and where to find them", during the School of Life Sciences Postgraduate Symposium that was held at Warwick University, on March 19-20, 2018. 

January 17, 2018

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Robyn Wright will be presenting her latest work on using artificial selection of marine microbial communities for the degradation of recalcitrant polymers, at the 6th International Marine Debris Conference! The conference will be held in San Diego, California, USA, on March 15-16, 2018.

January 11, 2018

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Following his publication in Environmental Science & Technology, Gabriel Erni-Cassola wrote a short article for the scientists' online newspaper 'Laboratory News'! He explains to the readers the group's latest research on microplastics detection!

December 15, 2017

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Our latest exoproteomics study on molecular interactions occurring between marine phototrophs and heterotrophs is out in Environmental Microbiology Journal!

November 7, 2017

Our latest publication on small microplastics quantification by fluorescence is out in Environmental Science & Technology!

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June 26, 2017

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Our first publication of 2017 - but not the last - on phototroph-heterotroph interactions study is out in Nature Microbiology!