Ashley Coenen presented at the annual NSF BioOceans conference (virtually, this year). BioOceans is a multi-institute collaboration which aims to characterize bacteria-phage infection networks in surface ocean communities. The presentation prompted discussion among microbiologists, virologists, and oceanographers about model design and the unknown biology regarding phage infection.
Look for our paper in ISME J
Dr. Stephen Beckett and Prof. Joshua Weitz contributed to a new study published in ISME J that measured the infected fraction of Prochlorococcus cells in the North Pacific ocean. The iPolony method suggests that less than 2% of Prochlorococcus cells in the surface ocean are infected at any time by T4- or T7-like viruses, which […]
Demory and Coenen publish a paper on marine viral ecology
David Demory and Ashley Coenen recently published an article in mSystems “Linking Light-Dependent Life History Traits with Population Dynamics for Prochlorococcus and Cyanophage”.