Alessandro Garritano
🇧🇷 Marine biologist 🌊 & bioinformatician🧬 @UNSW exploring the secrets of bacterial metabolism & life in the deep-sea .
✈️ geek in my free time
- Reposted by Alessandro Garritano🧫 JAMS Sydney is back! 🧫 We’re kicking off 2026 with an Archaea Special 🔬 📅 24 February ⏰ 6–8 pm 📍 Shakespeare Hotel, 200 Devonshire St, Surry Hills New year, new venue, and a deep dive into one of the most fascinating domains of life. 🎤 Speaker details coming soon — stay tuned! #JAMSSydney
- Our review “Symbiotic Ammonia Oxidation in the Marine Environment” is now published in Annual Review of Marine Science and is fully open access. We synthesise ammonia-oxidising microbes in marine symbioses, their implications, and key gaps in host-associated nitrogen cycling doi.org/10.1146/annu...
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoEvery opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important. Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
- @ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers ‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’ lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG 1/
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoNew preprint! We explore how gutless marine worms and their bacterial symbionts use organosulfur compounds like DMSP and DMS - key molecules in marine sulfur cycling. Our results show that these compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in the Olavius algarvensis symbiosis.
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoI’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 9 Dec from 4PM (Australian Eastern summer time) Andrew Merchant: plant source-sink dynamics using low field NMR & Davide Siclari: thermal metrics in a warming climate sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoNEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Here, we show that deep below, corals and feather stars don’t just share space – they share microbes. Endozoicomonadaceae + Nitrosopumilaceae inhabit both hosts in a “promiscuous” symbiosis that may fuel nitrogen cycling in the deep sea. doi.org/10.1186/s401... 🌊🪸🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoDrift, dispersal limitation and homogeneous selection as a key processes shaping prokaryotic community assembly in marine sediments academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoHappy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up: doi.org/10.1093/bioi... (1/3)
- Reposted by Alessandro Garritano🌐 Global PhD & Faculty Opportunities Open Now! 🧬🐛 Discover a wide range of PhD and faculty-level openings across microbiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, and more, spread across top institutions worldwide. tinyurl.com/3jknvu4y
- New review out in Annual Review of Marine Science! 🌊🧫 We explore how ammonia-oxidising microbes form symbioses with marine hosts - fueling the nitrogen cycle, fixing carbon, and possibly feeding their hosts. #Metagenomics 🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky 🔗 doi.org/10.1146/annu...
- Great work on Asgardarchaea by @snobsi.bsky.social, @juliameltzer.bsky.social, @xabivc.bsky.social and collaborators
- So excited to finally show the world a project years in the making. A huge group effort with lots of expertise leading to a unique #Asgard syntrophy story. Very fortunate to have been involved in cultivating and analysing this wonderful organism ❤️
- This looks like a great resource for drawing metabolic schemes and the proteins involved. Lost countless hours looking for the subcellular location of specific enzymes and very keen to give this a try
- Predicting the subcellular location of prokaryotic proteins with DeepLocPro academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs
- Reposted by Alessandro GarritanoKeeping your symbiosis genes on a plasmid is a smart move if you have multiple potential hosts. Here a gut bacterial symbiont, but same is true for N-fixing Rhizobia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Hoje, nosso último artigo ganhou destaque no Brasil! 🇧🇷 Nomeamos uma nova ordem e família viral em homenagem a dois deuses da mitologia brasileira. Um pequeno passo para valorizar a ciência e cultura nacionais. www.bbc.com/portuguese/a... História completa: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
- Today, our latest paper made headlines in Brazil! We named a new viral order and family after two gods from Brazilian mythology. A small step towards valuing Brazilian science culture. www.bbc.com/portuguese/a... Complete story: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
- Reposted by Alessandro Garritano‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky For me, it certainly feels good to be here! @natureportfolio.bsky.social @bsky.app www.nature.com/articles/d41...
