Timothy Stephens

🚨 Excited to share my first ever review article, now out in BioEssays! 🚨 We explore how human point-of-care diagnostic tests can be adapted to monitor coral health! 🧬🌊 Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/bies.7… #CoralReefs #Biotech #Conservation #MarineGenomics

Congratulations to our international team for publishing this wonderful paper about how microalgae and microbes interact at Yellowstone National Park to maintain stable ecosystems (academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…). @DebashB @CouchMicroscopy @Th_Mock @chc_evobio @jgi @apmweber @ISMEComms

Congratulations to @ChilleErin for her paper on why genotype matters when studying coral stress responses (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…). You can hear the live version at @Evol_mtg. Congrats also to co-authors @timstep1383 Deeksha Misri @EmmaStrand4 and @HolliePutnam

What a pleasure to have Hwan Su Yoon from Sungkyunkwan University in S. Korea visiting us in New Jersey. His group is doing path-breaking, creative algal research. Our long-term collaboration has always been joyful and spirited.

We have an opening in my lab for a postdoc with expertise in algal/seaweed biotechnology, in particular, metabolic engineering and carbohydrate biochemistry, with some bioinformatics training. Email me at debash.bhattacharya@gmail.com, if this fits your background and aspirations

This paper was a lot of hard work, but worth it. We start to learn how Paulinella meets its CO2 needs in the chromatophore (…icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…). Congratulations Arwa G, @timstep1383 @JohnReinfelder @VickieCalatrava and Arthur G. @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNJAES @carnegiescience

A nice description in Science magazine by Liz Pennisi of the major results from our paper (@LFelipeB @timstep1383 @CouchMicroscopy @jgi) on Yellowstone National Park viruses can be found here, science.org/content/articl… (@RutgersSEBS @RutgersU_News @PSAAlgae @RutgersNJAES)

The virus community associated with red algal mats in Yellowstone National Park dominated by Megaviricetes with resident virus lineages being of ancient origin:nature.com/articles/s4200… @DebashB @NASA @LFelipeB @timstep1383, @CouchMicroscopy @RutgersSEBS @RutgersU_News @RutgersNB

The launch of OceanOmics Inc. has happened. Dedicated to developing and deploying cutting-edge, tools for monitoring the health of marine resources such as corals and shellfish, worldwide. Thanks to all of our supporters, in particular, Revive & Restore.

See our new film about bringing modern tools of coral conservation to reef managers around the world. Full video, "Diverse Tools for Diverse Coral Reefs and Cultures," available at youtu.be/v85olxNBSgE @RutgersSEBS @RutgersResearch @NSF @Revive_Restore @RutgersU_News

Congratulations Julia Van Etten (@CouchMicroscopy) for winning the 2023 OUP Publisher's Award for her paper on using k-mers in phylogenetic classification (academic.oup.com/sysbio/article…). Tim Stephens (@timstep1383) made major contributions to the work. Great job Julia and Tim!

We put forward a working hypothesis of how facultative lifestyle drives the diversity of coral algal symbionts - now out @Trends_Ecol_Evo #OpenAccess - fun collaboration with @DebashB @timstep1383 @ChilleErin @LFelipeB @RutgersSEBS! @ace_uq @UQ_SCMB authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

How can symbiosis researchers help ameliorate the harmful impacts of climate change? Join us for a public discussion in the Field Museum, Chicago as part of ISE 2023 (@cellinsidecell). The panel will lead discussion on the topic. @RutgersU_News @Revive_Restore @NSF

We are excited to present a multi-omics analysis of the coral thermal stress response (cell.com/iscience/fullt…). It is understandably complex. Great work @timstep1383 and team at @RutgersNB @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNJAES @Revive_Restore @NSF.

Terrific talk by @timstep1383 and @DebashB (@RutgersU) about their multi-omics research on coral resilience 🪸 @carnegiescience @CarnegiePlants Congrats for your really great and inspiring work!! 👏🏻👏🏻

Doing science can be fun, but doing so with amazing collaborators like @DebashB and @timstep1383 just brings it to another level. Thank you both so much for visiting, it was so much fun!!

Happy to present another wonderful paper written with our Korean friends in Hwan Su Yoon's lab. Learn about chromosome level processes that drive microhabitat adaptation in extremophilic red algae: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #rutgersuniversity

Food for thought with colleagues @CouchMicroscopy @LFelipeB @timstep1383 at @RutgersSEBS @RutgersNJAES. Why are the three Archaeplastida lineages so different from each other? Paulinella provides some answers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

Our final story is out! Here we (@DebashB and @timstep1383) show evidence of integration of RNA and giant DNA viral genes into the marvelous #Symbiodiniaceae. We propose that endogenized viral genes could hauntingly modulate the life story of these algae: academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art…

Celebrating a great week with my lab. mate extraordinary @timstep1383 at our favorite bar! Cheers!