Sofie Vranken

@PSAAlgae @JPhycology @MINNEAntoine

Are you an artist? In excitement for this year’s meeting, we are opening up a logo competition! The theme is “Sustainability!” ¿Eres un artista? Con motivo de la reunión de este año, ¡abrimos un concurso de logotipos! El tema es «¡Sostenibilidad!» #Sustainability #algae #seaweed

Excited to share the Phaeoexplorer paper out today in Cell: Evolutionary genomics of the emergence of brown algae as key components of coastal ecosystems! 🌊 Including the genome of Dictyota dichotoma and many more! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… #Seaweed

*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.

@sarahgalerie @TheJourney2050 It's spreading at an insane rate! Such a sad and frightening situation😣. At @PhycologyUgent, one of our students is working on this. Stay tuned for the upcoming publication!

On a recent trip to Portugal I was surprised to see the vast build up of #Rugulopteryx not only in the seawater but also along beautiful coastlines. Has anyone else noticed this in Europe? Or have ideas on what to do about it? @TheJourney2050 #seaweed

What is your favorite latest genome assembler that uses Illumina reads? I want to see what people are doing these days, please retweet 🙏 #genomics #Illumina #bioinformatics

Why are the impacts of #climatechange so variable? Excited to share our new review paper in @GlobalChangeBio which explores the role of local environmental variation in mediating the impacts of extreme marine heatwaves @UWAresearch @ForrestResearch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

📣 PhD students wanted: Future-proofing seaweeds on the #greatsouthernreef 🥬 Lead meaningful research in a global biodiversity hotspot 🐠🏄‍♀️🌊 Email me CV and letter of motivation or get in touch for more info

Global #seaweed forests export 56 million tonnes of carbon (15% of their production) to the deep ocean annually. These biodiverse #blueforests are overlooked in the global ocean #carbon budget. We provide national estimates of this C #sink rdcu.be/dIKup @NatureGeosci

Looking for a PhD and interested in #GeneEditing #seaweeds? Take this opportunity and come and join our lab! 👇 🌊🧬

How effective are #MPAs for conserving #kelp #forests? Our perspective shows they can help with some drivers of loss like grazing, but often fail to protect against ocean warming and coastal darkening - 2 main reasons we are losing kelp forests globally! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13…

Just out: our Mini Review on Genome Editing in Macroalgae. We examine the current state and challenges of genome editing in #seaweeds. We tried to chart a way forward and discuss #applications. I hope we can inspire some phycologists! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #crispr

@Pieter_Vtieghem We use the pendants and leave them for multiple months on site🌊 until we replace them. You can get different storage capacities. I'll send you the details .

@Pieter_Vtieghem We use the Onset hobo loggers.

Can seaweed farming lead to climate change mitigation?🌿🌊Seaweed farming is increasingly considered as an important strategy for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). But how much carbon do seaweed farms currently remove? Let's unravel the findings! 🧵👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Interesting read @NatureClimate @Masashi_Soga & @KevinJGaston Extinction of experience due to climate change nature.com/articles/s4155…

Very happy to announce the release of my newest manuscript with Katie Lotterhos @Northeastern ! (1 / n)

Super happy about exciting experiments ongoing with our young #Palmaria @PhycologyUgent & @eleichix, @BLUEGent_

The IPCC should hire the BBC’s graphics team for AR7.

@SoriaDelva @_KVAB Congrats, Soria!

Excited to share that I've been honored with the Paul van Oye prize awarded by @_KVAB for my PhD work. So grateful for this recognition! tinyurl.com/5bws8uuy

Underwater rivers export up to 50% of #kelp #carbon from shallow reefs to deep ocean, with potential for #sequestration. Our new paper shows dense shelf water transport is a major mechanism for kelp export off Australia's #GreatSouthernReef and elsewhere! doi.org/10.1038/s41598…