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		<title>Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[reporting by Helen Hill In a new paper,  MIT-CBIOMES investigator Stephanie Dutkiewicz and collaborators use the Darwin ecosystem model to develop theories seeking to explain and predict phytoplankton biogeography. Ocean microbial communities (phytoplankton) play an important role in the global cycling of elements including climatically significant carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen. Photosynthetic microbes in the surface &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/exploring-phytoplankton-diversity/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Relating Marine Picoplankton Cell Size and Metabolism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting by Helen Hill for CBIOMES CBIOMES postdoctoral fellow John Casey is a Microbial Oceanographer who combines observations, experimental approaches, and computational methods to better understand the diversity of metabolic and physiological designs that influence biogeochemical cycles.   Read this story at CBIOMES In his work for CBIOMES he is developing and applying optimization tools to &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/relating-marine-picoplankton-cell-size-and-metabolism/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Relating Marine Picoplankton Cell Size and Metabolism</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth Annual Traits Workshop</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/fourth-annual-traits-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting by Helen Hill for the MIT Darwin Project The fourth Workshop on Trait-Based Approaches to Ocean Life, held August 18-21, 2019 at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire in the UK was a wonderful opportunity for Darwin Group members to catch up with former colleagues while sharing current directions in marine ecology viewed through a traits &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/fourth-annual-traits-workshop/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fourth Annual Traits Workshop</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Phytoplankton &amp; Chips</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/phytoplankton-chips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Hill &#124; Darwin Project Microbes mediate the global marine cycles of elements, modulating atmospheric CO2 and helping to maintain the oxygen we all breath yet there is much about them scientists still don’t understand. Now, an award from the Simons Foundation will give researchers from the Darwin Project access to bigger, better computing resources to model &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/phytoplankton-chips/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Phytoplankton &#038; Chips</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin goes to Ocean Sciences 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving the cold of a New England February behind, the Darwin team will be in full attendance at this year&#8217;s Ocean Sciences conference taking place February 23-28 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Here are all the Darwin Project abstracts: Clayton, S.; Lin, Y. C.; Follows, M. J.; Worden, A. Z.; FINE SCALE ECOLOGY OF PICOEUKARYOTES ACROSS THE &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/darwin-goes-to-ocean-sciences-2014/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin goes to Ocean Sciences 2014</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Size Structure: exploring nutrient versus grazing control</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/size-structure-exploring-nutrient-versus-grazing-control-2/</link>
		<comments>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/size-structure-exploring-nutrient-versus-grazing-control-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Idealized equilibrium models have attributed the observed size structure of marine communities to the interactions between nutrient and grazing control. In a new paper in the Journal of Plankton Research Ben Ward and co-authors Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Mick Follows examine this theory in a more realistic context using a size-structured global ocean food-web model, together &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/size-structure-exploring-nutrient-versus-grazing-control-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Size Structure: exploring nutrient versus grazing control</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top-down and bottom-up controls in a global size-structured plankton food-web model</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/top-down-and-bottom-up-controls-in-a-global-size-structured-plankton-food-web-model/</link>
		<comments>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/top-down-and-bottom-up-controls-in-a-global-size-structured-plankton-food-web-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publication Ward, B.A., S. Dutkiewicz, and M.J. Follows (2013), Top-down and bottom-up controls in a global size-structured plankton food-web model, Journal of Plankton Research , 0, 1-17, doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbt097]]></description>
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		<title>Trait-based models of nutrient uptake in microbes extend the Michaelis-Menten framework</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/trait-based-models-of-nutrient-uptake-in-microbes-extend-the-michaelis-menten-framework/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publication Fiksen, O., M.J. Follows and D.L. Aksnes (2013), Trait-based models of nutrient uptake in microbes extend the Michaelis-Menten framework, Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 58, pp. 193, doi: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0193]]></description>
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		<title>The roles of cell size and trophic strategy in North Atlantic diatom and dinoflagellate communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publication Barton, A.D., Z.V. Finkel, B.A. Ward, D.G. Johns and M.J. Follows (2013), The roles of cell size and trophic strategy in North Atlantic diatom and dinoflagellate communities. Limnology and Oceanography, 58(1), 2013, 254-266, doi: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0254]]></description>
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		<title>Growth, metabolic partitioning, and the size of microorganisms</title>
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		<comments>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/growth-metabolic-partitioning-and-the-size-of-microorganisms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publication Kempes, C.P., S. Dutkiewicz, and M.J. Follows (2012), Growth, metabolic partitioning, and the size of microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 109, 495-500, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1115585109]]></description>
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