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Thomas Mock

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Thomas Mock

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This morning at the campus of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

January 5, 2026 at 9:21 AM

Thomas Mock

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Good morning #Norwich and a happy 2026!

January 3, 2026 at 11:06 AM

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Most dystopian landscape in Germany during blue-hour cycling

December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Thomas Mock

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Just out - an update on our paper from 2015:

Evolution of Microalgae and Their Adaptations in Different Marine Ecosystems #ocean #algae #microbiomes

Led by @antoniaotte1.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/9780...

December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Our new paper just out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Venturing into the deep sea: #microbiomes and their feedbacks play a significant role in shaping habitat-scale spatial heterogeneity of #cold-seep carbonates. @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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On my way home

December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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Our consensus statement led by @jgi.doe.gov on standards for technical reporting in #environmental and host-associated #microbiome studies #STREAMS @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

December 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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Scenic drive along the Laoshan mountains

November 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM

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At OUC campus in November

November 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM

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A double helix in front of @viblifesciences.bsky.social

November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Seen today on our campus @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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New issue of Journal of Phycology is out with our paper highlighted on the cover. 😀 Congrats to all authors and especially Longji Deng 👏 @ueaenv.bsky.social

First genetic transformation system in a heterotrophic #diatom

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15298817...

October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Thomas Mock

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Fully funded #PhD Studentship in my lab! Get in touch 😀

The role of light-driven proton pumps in sustaining oceanic primary production #microbial #rhodopsins #diatom #ocean
@ueaenv.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov

The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

October 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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Worth reading: A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how #diatoms thrive in dynamic light. From Ellen Yeh's group

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

September 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Cool preprint: Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like #rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant #virus

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

September 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our latest methods article led by Longji Deng. It enables to reverse engineer #photosynthesis in a eukaryotic heterotroph containing a "chloroplast": The #diatom Nitzschia putrida @ueaenv.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

August 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Thomas Mock

@thomasmock.bsky.social

Our new paper just out in BMC Biology led by Johanna Winder: Environmental adaptations in #metagenomes revealed by deep learning. Artificial neural networks were used to classify ice-binding / substrate-binding proteins (DUF3494).

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....