by Sigurður Björnsson | Dec 30, 2025 | News
For decades, models and culture experiments hinted that the ocean’s most abundant photosynthetic microbe—Prochlorococcus—would hold its own in a warming ocean. New work in Nature Microbiology paints a sharper picture: by fusing shipboard observations with...
by Sigurður Björnsson | Dec 30, 2025
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products will bring together a broad range of researchers at all career stages from academia, government and industry to discuss new frontiers and emerging strategies for investigation and application of complex...
by Sigurður Björnsson | Nov 27, 2025 | News
In our latest Marine Microbiome Newsletter (November 2025 edition), we have highlighted critical updates and, following COP30, make the case for bringing marine microbiome decisions into climate decisions: warming impacts on Prochlorococcus, acidification thresholds,...
by Sigurður Björnsson | Nov 18, 2025
Deep-sea microbiome seminar on processes shaping subseafloor communities – carbon cycling, genomic novelty, and methods. Hadal ecosystems belong to the least understood environments on Earth. It is commonly thought that microbial communities in hadal trenches...
by Sigurður Björnsson | Nov 10, 2025 | News
COP30 is officially underway in Belém, Brazil (Nov 10–21, 2025), with world leaders framing climate action around forests, finance, and a just transition. Yet one pillar is often overlooked: the marine microbiome – the hidden treasure of microscopic organisms...
