Lisa Sudek

TL;DR: The development of genetic tools in a range of protists primarily from marine environments are reported on, providing a roadmap for developing genetically tractable organisms.

TL;DR: The research illuminates the dynamic relationships between an unusual class of repetitive introns, genome evolution, speciation, and global distribution of this sentinel marine alga.

TL;DR: How the newly discovered phytoplankton lineages contribute to food chains and vertical carbon export to the deep sea remains unknown, but their prevalence in expanding, low nutrient surface waters suggests they will have a role in future oceans.

TL;DR: It is found that physiological and protein expression responses previously attributed to stress are critical to supporting stable exponential growth when phosphate is limiting and that an ancient light-harvesting protein is induced together with other uncharacterized proteins to limit light stress and sustain growth.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed 81 samples from the upper 100 m of the water column from the Fram Strait collected over multiple years (2009-2015) and also analyzed sediment trap samples to examine picophytoplankton contributions to export, using both 18S rRNA gene qPCR and V1-V2 16 s rRNA Illumina amplicon sequencing.