A first-principles look at phytoplankton chemistry reveals an overlooked driver of the ocean’s oxygen budget.
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Shlomit Sharoni, Keisuke Inomura, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Oliver Jahn, Gregory L. Britten, Michael J. Follows (2026), C:H:N:O:P stoichiometry and oxygen demand of marine organic matter are driven by phytoplankton ecophysiology, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aeg6228 Continue reading C:H:N:O:P stoichiometry and oxygen demand of marine organic matter are driven by phytoplankton ecophysiology
Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton
With warmer ocean temperatures, the composition of marine plankton could shift from protein-rich to carb-heavy, a new study suggests. Continue reading Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton
A Marine Symbiosis Allows a Better Understanding of Our Cells Evolution
Human cells, as well as cells of animals, plants, fungi, and other eukaryotic organisms, originally emerged hundreds of millions of years ago through the symbiotic association of some primitive bacteria that, until then, had lived independently. This represented an unprecedented leap in the complexity of life, where some bacteria, after having resided within cells for a long time, eventually transitioned into becoming organelles of these cells. This transition allowed for the compartmentalization and control of bacterial-derived functions within the eukaryotic cell. CBIOMES Mick Follows contributes to a new paper in the journal Cell.
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Keisuke Inomura, Juan José Pierella Karlusich, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Curtis Deutsch, Paul J. Harrison, Chris Bowler (2023), High Growth Rate of Diatoms Explained by Reduced Carbon Requirement and Low Energy Cost of Silica Deposition, Microbiology Spectrum, doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03311-22
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URI researcher-led study opens oceans of possibilities
Darwin alum, now assistant professor of oceanography in URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, Keisuke Inomura talks to URI News about the recent Nature Geoscience study he led. Continue reading URI researcher-led study opens oceans of possibilities
Keisuke Inomura, Curtis Deutsch, Oliver Jahn, Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Michael J. Follows (2022), Global patterns in marine organic matter stoichiometry driven by phytoplankton ecophysiology, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01066-2 Continue reading Global patterns in marine organic matter stoichiometry driven by phytoplankton ecophysiology
Subhendu Chakraborty, Ken H. Andersen, André W. Visser, Keisuke Inomura, Michael J. Follows & Lasse Riemann (2021), Quantifying nitrogen fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in sinking marine particles, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23875-6
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Keisuke Inomura, Curtis Deutsch, Takako Masuda, Ondřej Prášil, Michael J. Follows (2020), Quantitative models of nitrogen-fixing organisms, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.11.022 Continue reading Quantitative models of nitrogen-fixing organisms
A.W. Omta, D. Talmy, K. Inomura, A.J. Irwin, Z.V. Finkel, D. Sher, and M.J. Follows (2020), Quantifying nutrient throughput and DOM production by algae in continuous culture, Journal of Theoretical Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.