Rebecca Key
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Rebecca Key
@rkeymicrobe.bsky.social
Bioinformatician @UF. Recent PhD graduate. Painter, Digital illustrator. I love microbe community assembly in aquatic systems
New phytoplankton🦠 pub!

Picophytoplankton implicated in productivity and biogeochemistry in the North Pacific Transition Zone journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

All made possible by a persistent PhD student, an insightful advisor, & a supportive, dedicated team of scientists.
Give it a read! ☺️
Picophytoplankton implicated in productivity and biogeochemistry in the North Pacific Transition Zone | mSystems
Phytoplankton mediate key biogeochemical processes in dynamic oceanic transition zones. However, their vast cell size range and taxonomic diversity make it challenging to link specific taxa to bulk co...
journals.asm.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Great read, Co-led by my amazing PhD advisor Bryn, w/ contributions from our lab's metab queen, Laurel. Nice work to them and co-authors!
📣 New C-CoMP Pub. Alert!
Interested in marine microbial metabolites 🌊🦠? If so, check out this new pub., led by Bryndan Durham & Winn Johnson, that emerged from C-CoMP's Labile DOM workshop: An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem.
tinyurl.com/54bu2xm7
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem
The ocean microbe-metabolite network involves thousands of individual metabolites that encompass a breadth of chemical diversity and biological functions. These microbial metabolites mediate biogeoch....
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is how I paint microbes, with colorful countless dots 💚🦠

It is an 18-inch diameter circle using acrylic medium. It took about a month to finish and is called 'Holobiont'
July 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM