Rebecca Key, Ph. D.

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 TinyLife Microbe Stickers are now available!! Store: etsy.com/shop/tinyLifeM… Dive into the beautiful world of microbes w these adorable stickers Many thanks to my lab group for supporting my art 🦠❤️ yay! #MicrobeStickers #Algae #Phytoplankton #Diatoms

Another 18-in diameter circle piece I painted. This one was completed, off-n-on, since graduating. Diverse microbes painted with countless dots. Fun and colorful. It is called 'Holobiont'

New R Consortium webinar: Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem for the modern composable data pipeline June 24, 1pm ET Sign up now! r-consortium.org/webinars/scali… #rstats @paleolimbot

More art! Here's a 4.5ft long cedar board with lovely marine diatoms, green algae, cyanobacteria, and other bacteria IG: @tinyLife_microbes 🦠 Thanks for watching! #sciart #Phytoplankton #diatoms #microbiology

@LeezaPickering Thank you Leeza 😊

@rkeyMicrobe Looks amazing!

It's complete! Patience was key, no rushing for a beautiful piece "A Painted Microcosm" is an 18-inch acrylic dot painting of phytoplankton 🦠💚 From the center outward: cyanobacteria (see the heterocyst? 😊), prasinophytes, haptophytes, stramenopiles, & dinoflagellates

In progress acrylic painting 🦠💚 Long day of work, this is relaxing time Center to margins: cyanobacteria, green algae, haptophyta, diatoms. And soon-to-be dinoflagellates #algae #phycology #sciArt #acrylic #phytoplankton

Our new review is out now – well done Ella, Sabina, Nicky and Charlotte – a great collaboration with the @mackinderlab! From algae to plants: understanding pyrenoid based CO2-concentrating mechanisms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 Registration is now open for M₂C₂ 2025: Marine Microbial Chemical Communication​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Conference! 🦠🌊🦠🌊 17-20 March 2025 NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Texel, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Register now: aanmelder.nl/m2c2-marine-mi…

Molecular dynamics simulations in mixed reality! With @labriataphd and @lucien_krapp we’re scaling our multi-user WebXR platform to enable immersive molecular simulations, fully based on web technologies. Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff coming soon! @threejs #WebXR #Quest3

Temperature structuring of microbial communities on a global scale sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I discovered where the clever lil' hunter that visits every night hides during day hours... in my Madagascar Palm! Makes perfect sense

A decade of dinoflagellate genomics illuminating an enigmatic eukaryote cell bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

1/ 12 years ago, I typed my first "Hello world!". It is not easy to learn bioinformatics from scratch. But it is possible if you put in effort and have a clear pathway.

We found a way to implant bacteria 🦠 in fungi 🍄and used it to induce artificial endosymbiosis. Read all about it in our newest research paper @Nature . nature.com/articles/s4158…

Another angle of this microbe painting 💚🦠🐊

Weekend painting, had fun painting freshwater algae diversity ☺️💚 Acrylic & resin, 18"x5" inches #algae #phytoplankton #crafting #microbiology

A large aquatic Idaho Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus) from last week in the gem state.

I feel so loved! My colleagues and students provided snacks for my tenure and promotion seminar yesterday. Special thanks to Ana Longo for sugar cookie versions of all the species featured in my talk and to @CRNolte for the edible isotopes!