ICoMM is one of the sponsors of this year's "Plankton as an Artistic Inspiration" at the ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting in Santa Fe February 4-9, 2007. This exhibit is a landmark event in ASLO's opening its meeting to tthe local community. Be sure not to miss this special event! Visit the ASLO meeting site for more details.

In the August issue of PNAS, ICoMM Principal Investigator Mitchell Sogin and colleagues published a manuscript entitled, "Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored 'rare biosphere'" Read more about this fascinating ICoMM pilot project here

“Biogeographic analysis of ribosomal RNA clusters from marine bacterioplankton”

Drs Thomas Pommier, Jarone Pinhassi, and Åke Hagström have kindly shared their MBD data that was used for this paper, Also, Dr. Pommier et al have a new paper: T. POMMIER, B. CANBÄCK, L. RIEMANN, K. H. BOSTRÖM, K. SIMU, P. LUNDBERG, A. TUNLID, Å. HAGSTRÖM (2007) Global patterns of diversity and community structure in marine bacterioplankton Molecular Ecology 16 (4), 867-880.

The first annual meeting of ICoMM was held in the Netherlands this June (2006). Read the reports and papers from that here.

The Marine Biological Laboratory has just been awarded a Keck grant to acquire a parallel DNA sequencing system to enable an initial census of marine microbes. Read More About It