Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)
@microbialplanet.bsky.social
We are a NSF Science and Technology Center that explores how metabolite exchange through microbial networks impacts carbon cycling in the surface ocean
📣 Special thanks to our moderator and panelists for representing microbes 🦠 in the #oceanpavilion @cop30brazil.bsky.social in the only microbial panel at #cop30.
Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!
Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
📣 Special thanks to our moderator and panelists for representing microbes 🦠 in the #oceanpavilion @cop30brazil.bsky.social in the only microbial panel at #cop30.
Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!
Microbes play key roles in climate. They need to be considered in navigating what happens next for our planet 🌎!
Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @whoi.edu @climate.columbia.edu
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November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ready to learn about how microbes 🦠 are stakeholders and players in what happens next for our planet 🌎? If you are @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30, please attend our panel from 1:30 - 2:30 today (Nov. 19) in the #OceanPavilion. Details in the flyer! @whoi.edu @climate.columbia.edu
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Are you @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30 and interested in learning more about microbes 🦠 and how they impact our planet 🌎? Don't miss the panel hosted by our Director Elizabeth Kujawinski and Sonya Dyhrman @climate.columbia.edu tomorrow (Nov. 19) starting at 1:30 pm in the #OceanPavilion!
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November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Are you @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30 and interested in learning more about microbes 🦠 and how they impact our planet 🌎? Don't miss the panel hosted by our Director Elizabeth Kujawinski and Sonya Dyhrman @climate.columbia.edu tomorrow (Nov. 19) starting at 1:30 pm in the #OceanPavilion!
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📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-...
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
Microbes at COP30 – C-CoMP
ccomp-stc.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-...
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday
Interested in learning more about the people, samples, and research activities that were conducted on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise (@biosstation.bsky.social ➡️ @whoi.edu)? Well if you are, you are in luck! Check out our AE2504 cruise report: zenodo.org/records/1675...
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Interested in learning more about the people, samples, and research activities that were conducted on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise (@biosstation.bsky.social ➡️ @whoi.edu)? Well if you are, you are in luck! Check out our AE2504 cruise report: zenodo.org/records/1675...
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Cruise Report for AE2504 on R/V Atlantic Explorer
This is the cruise report for C-CoMP cruise AE2504 on the RV Atlantic Explorer that took place in March 2025. The goal of the AE2504 was to compare the microbial dynamics and processes in an oligotrop...
zenodo.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday
Interested in learning more about the people, samples, and research activities that were conducted on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise (@biosstation.bsky.social ➡️ @whoi.edu)? Well if you are, you are in luck! Check out our AE2504 cruise report: zenodo.org/records/1675...
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Interested in learning more about the people, samples, and research activities that were conducted on the C-CoMP March 2025 cruise (@biosstation.bsky.social ➡️ @whoi.edu)? Well if you are, you are in luck! Check out our AE2504 cruise report: zenodo.org/records/1675...
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📣 C-CoMP Pub Alert!
Check out this new paper that investigates how bacteria control heterotrophic respiration and net community production in the Sargasso Sea 🌊. Congrats to the authors 🎉!
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Check out this new paper that investigates how bacteria control heterotrophic respiration and net community production in the Sargasso Sea 🌊. Congrats to the authors 🎉!
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New 🌊 paper on "Bacterial Control of Metabolic Balance in the Sargasso Sea Near Bermuda: Insights From Data-Assimilative Biogeochemical Modeling"
by Kim, Mao, Archibald, Terhaar, and Thomason
@whoi.edu @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
by Kim, Mao, Archibald, Terhaar, and Thomason
@whoi.edu @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
📣 C-CoMP Pub Alert!
Check out this new paper that investigates how bacteria control heterotrophic respiration and net community production in the Sargasso Sea 🌊. Congrats to the authors 🎉!
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Check out this new paper that investigates how bacteria control heterotrophic respiration and net community production in the Sargasso Sea 🌊. Congrats to the authors 🎉!
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📣New preprint alert!
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean
The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Earth primary production within days to weeks. After exc...
www.biorxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📣New preprint alert!
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
Check out this new preprint by Zhu et al. that quantifies and compares labile exometabolites from six axenic strains of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to identify key chemical currencies within the marine chemical-microbial network! 🧪🦠
📣#MTTM
Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📣#MTTM
Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
Dr. Henry Holm is a postdoc researcher working with C-CoMP and the Dyhrman and Hurley lab groups @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu. He is a chemical 🧪oceanographer by training and thinks a lot about how phytoplankton move carbon through the ocean 🌊.
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
C-CoMP focuses on microbes & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is 🌊. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving rare visits from animals🐦!
C-CoMP focuses on microbes & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is 🌊. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving rare visits from animals🐦!
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
C-CoMP focuses on microbes & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is 🌊. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving rare visits from animals🐦!
C-CoMP focuses on microbes & chemicals, so it is easy for us to forget how vast our ocean is 🌊. Being at sea 🚢 is the loveliest reminder - there’s nothing as wondrous or humbling as floating in endless cerulean blue while receiving rare visits from animals🐦!
Congrats @maratimes.bsky.social!
Meet the 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees! IBES will fund 6 core & affiliate faculty members to pursue scholarly projects around the world, with topics ranging from parasite identification to Indigenous-led environmental justice organizing.
Mara Freilich Brown History Department Brown Biostatistics
Mara Freilich Brown History Department Brown Biostatistics
IBES announces 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees
IBES awarded grants to six core and affiliate faculty members, allowing them to conduct research that crosses boundaries and benefits communities, both at Brown and around the world.
ibes.brown.edu
October 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Congrats @maratimes.bsky.social!
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Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📣#MTTM
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
Annika Gomez is a @simonsfoundation.org Postdoc Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology in the Dyhrman Group @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She studies marine viruses that exert a major influence on the fate of organic carbon in phytoplankton 🌊using ‘omics and culturing methods.
Had a fabulous time meeting with C-CoMP members last week at our Annual Meeting in Woods Hole. Thanks for all the great discussions 🧪🌊🦠💻🚢🌎! We are looking forward to an exciting year of investigating bioreactive molecules within the marine chemical-microbial network!
October 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Had a fabulous time meeting with C-CoMP members last week at our Annual Meeting in Woods Hole. Thanks for all the great discussions 🧪🌊🦠💻🚢🌎! We are looking forward to an exciting year of investigating bioreactive molecules within the marine chemical-microbial network!
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Wrapping up a great week of science with some light LEGO dehydration synthesis! @microbialplanet.bsky.social
@fuuchan20.bsky.social
@maksaito.bsky.social
@fuuchan20.bsky.social
@maksaito.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Wrapping up a great week of science with some light LEGO dehydration synthesis! @microbialplanet.bsky.social
@fuuchan20.bsky.social
@maksaito.bsky.social
@fuuchan20.bsky.social
@maksaito.bsky.social
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
Once seawater lands on deck, it’s go time 🏁! Researchers frequently spend hours in the lab each day and night (!) filtering and processing samples and running incubations. Here are a few snapshots from lab work during the C-CoMP 2025 March Cruise, AE2504!
Once seawater lands on deck, it’s go time 🏁! Researchers frequently spend hours in the lab each day and night (!) filtering and processing samples and running incubations. Here are a few snapshots from lab work during the C-CoMP 2025 March Cruise, AE2504!
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
Once seawater lands on deck, it’s go time 🏁! Researchers frequently spend hours in the lab each day and night (!) filtering and processing samples and running incubations. Here are a few snapshots from lab work during the C-CoMP 2025 March Cruise, AE2504!
Once seawater lands on deck, it’s go time 🏁! Researchers frequently spend hours in the lab each day and night (!) filtering and processing samples and running incubations. Here are a few snapshots from lab work during the C-CoMP 2025 March Cruise, AE2504!
📣#MTTM
Mariana Torres (martorres.bsky.social) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @rogierbraakman.bsky.social @mit.edu. Using computational methods, they are investigating environmental drivers of carbon cycle metabolism dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.
Mariana Torres (martorres.bsky.social) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @rogierbraakman.bsky.social @mit.edu. Using computational methods, they are investigating environmental drivers of carbon cycle metabolism dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.
September 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📣#MTTM
Mariana Torres (martorres.bsky.social) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @rogierbraakman.bsky.social @mit.edu. Using computational methods, they are investigating environmental drivers of carbon cycle metabolism dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.
Mariana Torres (martorres.bsky.social) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @rogierbraakman.bsky.social @mit.edu. Using computational methods, they are investigating environmental drivers of carbon cycle metabolism dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!
And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!
And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!
📣#MTTM
Jill Paquette is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working in the
Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She uses computational approaches and lab culturing methods to investigate how nutrient stress affects the gene expression of eukaryotic phytoplankton 🌊🦠.
Jill Paquette is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working in the
Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She uses computational approaches and lab culturing methods to investigate how nutrient stress affects the gene expression of eukaryotic phytoplankton 🌊🦠.
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📣#MTTM
Jill Paquette is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working in the
Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She uses computational approaches and lab culturing methods to investigate how nutrient stress affects the gene expression of eukaryotic phytoplankton 🌊🦠.
Jill Paquette is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working in the
Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She uses computational approaches and lab culturing methods to investigate how nutrient stress affects the gene expression of eukaryotic phytoplankton 🌊🦠.
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!
During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!
During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!
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Successful dive and recovery to the eddy center, 18 sample depths down to 800 meters deep and engineering tests completed too.
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Successful dive and recovery to the eddy center, 18 sample depths down to 800 meters deep and engineering tests completed too.
Hey - check it out! @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social is exploring an eddy during the second C-CoMP cruise! We are excited to see how the eddy impacts microbial and metabolite dynamics. Stay tuned!
Woo, riding around the edge of an eddy and sampling for omics and sensors- new use case. I was recovered at the blue dot - started at a red dot to the right, drifter track in the center. Eddies can bring nutrients towards the surface and stimulate productivity. Also useful for robot joyrides.
September 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hey - check it out! @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social is exploring an eddy during the second C-CoMP cruise! We are excited to see how the eddy impacts microbial and metabolite dynamics. Stay tuned!
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We're out at sea with C-COMP @microbialplanet.bsky.social and the AUV Clio. Clio's social media account has migrated from the other place to the blue place @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social , follow for mild sarcastic pseudo-first robot humor
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Since I've new to 'blueocean', here's some background about me. I'm Clio the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that, unusual for a AUV, operates only in vertical mode, collecting samples in profiles down to 6000m. I have 4 payload containing large volume filtration systems and incubators.🌊🔬
September 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We're out at sea with C-COMP @microbialplanet.bsky.social and the AUV Clio. Clio's social media account has migrated from the other place to the blue place @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social , follow for mild sarcastic pseudo-first robot humor
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Currently I'm at sea supporting C-COMP's chemical currencies research in the North Atlantic Ocean. (@microbialplanet.bsky.social).
September 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Currently I'm at sea supporting C-COMP's chemical currencies research in the North Atlantic Ocean. (@microbialplanet.bsky.social).
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:
During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday!
During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:
During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:
Check-out this new paper on vitamin auxotrophies by @rachelgregor.bsky.social, a former C-CoMP Postdoc, and colleagues. Great job team! 🧪
🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/
Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly on model marine particles
Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism
doi.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Check-out this new paper on vitamin auxotrophies by @rachelgregor.bsky.social, a former C-CoMP Postdoc, and colleagues. Great job team! 🧪
C-CoMP participated in the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll! Our booth, called the “Artistic Oceanographer”, invited visitors to explore & imagine incredible adaptations of marine phytoplankton. Thanks to our volunteers & the Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu for creating this activity!
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
C-CoMP participated in the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll! Our booth, called the “Artistic Oceanographer”, invited visitors to explore & imagine incredible adaptations of marine phytoplankton. Thanks to our volunteers & the Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu for creating this activity!