Category: Data analysis
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Visualising 16 years of phytoplankton community dynamics
My esteemed colleague Jean-Yves Dias recently published an article on phytoplankton communities in French coastal waters. We worked on it together with 2 other co-authors, and it’s the result of more than 2 years of hard work (especially on Jean-Yves’ part) so I’m quite proud to advertise it on the blog! The paper is (objectively…
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Heat and run: temperature at the Western States 100
Tomorrow (Saturday 27th of June) is the start of the 53rd edition of the Western States Endurance Run (WSER, or Western States for short), a legendary long-distance race taking place in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I like marine microbes, but I also really like running, and I’m quite excited for this year’s edition…
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How big are dinoflagellate genomes?
When you begin working on dinoflagellates, you quickly learn that they have (very) big genomes. But how big really? Recently, I was preparing a presentation on dinoflagellates and I was faced with this question, so I investigated a bit. I found this great data visualisation by Tom White that plotted genome size in different groups…
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