Jordan Sims

vAMPirus: a comprehensive pipeline for virus amplicon data analysis. We demonstrate its use on DNA and RNA virus datasets and reveal corallivore fish feces as a reservoir of Symbiodiniaceae-infecting viruses. Check it out! shorturl.at/0I31n #coralreefs #virusbioinformatics

Excited to share preliminary results from one of my dissertation chapters today at #OSM24! Find me at poster 575 in Marine Ecosystems Across Scales, Time, and Biology (4-6pm) to chat about biofilm assembly, succession, and benthic invert settlement on coral reefs 🪸 #SLIME

Out today in @ISMEJournal thru extensive #TEM imaging, we show that a diversity of coral symbionts contain filamentous virus-like particles (fVLPs) see ⬇️for highlights

Microbial Ecology vs. Microbiology

Join us in honoring the legacy of Beth Buchanan, a quietly strong member of the Rice community whose impact will never be forgotten. Her story shows the power of perseverance and dedication. zurl.co/QkK5

We tracked a coral-associated virus lineage at the reef scale - in >50 coral colonies over 3+ years! 🪸  Excited to share our new paper on viruses that infect coral dinoflagellate symbionts (aka 'dinoRNAVs') out today @ISMEComms @RiceUniversity @CorreaLab news.rice.edu/news/2023/ocea…

@MicrobiaLoop @ParkerKLund The only logical solution. Toad is arriving on Wednesday. No more failed PCRs!

@ParkerKLund Oh maybe this is what we need?!

Your lab has lucky tokens for PCR Our lab has a haunted doll and an ofrenda for sacrificed host species

Hi coral microbe people, Can anyone recommend a reference paper for “good” vs “bad” bacteria in the coral microbiome? I’m disseminating the results of my 16S data and what bacteria may be beneficial versus opportunistic or harmful. #AcademicTwitter #coralmicrobiome

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Check out the latest from @vegathurberlab (Denise Silva, @hannah_eps & @VegaThurber) describing how to look at 16S in corals! 🦠🪸 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Surprisingly, Teagan did NOT find any changes in community composition through time, possibly due to the small sample size. She is excited to see if this changes as she continues this project and adds additional timepoints and replicates next semester!

Teagan found differences in the communities on the tops and bottoms of the tiles, with more fleshy macroalgae on the tops and more biofilm and invertebrate settlers on the bottoms. She thinks this may have been driven by increased light on the top sides promoting algal growth.

The AWESOME undergrad I mentored this semester, Teagan Corpening, presented her ongoing research at GMU's Celebration of Student Scholarship last week! See her talk on succession in small-scale reef communities: tinyurl.com/URSP-Teagan or check out the highlights in this thread!

Don’t wait to learn programming to start analyzing your genomics datasets. There are plenty of graphical user interface tools that require 0 programming knowledge. Every student deserves to experience that aha moment and the joy of discovery 😀! Here are some of my fav tools- 🧵

@neubadah Here’s mine (mobile still under construction): JordanASims.weebly.com I love having a website because it lets me showcase a lot of the day-to-day work that I do that doesn’t make it onto my Google Scholar or CV!

Once again asking published students and postdocs to please make a google scholar, and consider a website (even if it’s simple). If you have a website, post it below as an example for others to see how you showcase your work!

The Archer was here 🏹 RT IF YOU WANT IT

#coral and #invertebrate folks! Please help us with ID of this lavender creature?! Thank you! 🌊🪸 Location: Honduras #taxonomy