Microbial Ecologist Goes Viral

Desert Leaf magazine highlights the research being conducted by Dr. Sullivan and the Tucson Marine Phage Lab. · Desert Leaf, October 2013

Newly Discovered Marine Viruses Offer Glimpse Into Untapped Biodiversity

Studying bacteria from the Baltic Sea, researchers have discovered an entire array of previously unknown viruses that use these bacteria as hosts. By impacting the life cycles of these bacteria, the viruses play indirect but crucial ecological roles in environments…

American Society for Microbiology 113th General Meeting

Metagenomic Approaches: Frontiers of Annotation and Assembly, Networking and Discovery; Saturday, May 18, 2013. · ASM Workshop Promotional Video

UA Scientists Help Discover Most Abundant Ocean Virus

Researchers have discovered four previously unknown viruses that infect the Earth’s most abundant organism, the marine bacterium SAR11. Because of their huge numbers, these tiny players have critical roles in the global cycle of carbon and other nutrients. UA News…

Professor, Students Study Ocean Viruses at Sea

The Daily Wildcat covers the Tucson Marine Phage Lab’s work with marine viruses. · The Daily Wildcat, Apr 25, 2012

Ocean Viruses: Tiny Entities with Global Impacts

Matt Sullivan at the 2012 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 22, 2012 in Walnut Creek, CA. · JointGenomeInstitute on YouTube (41 mins)

Sailing in a Sea of Microbes

Researchers led by Matt Sullivan at the UA are among the first to dive into the world of viruses drifting through the world’s oceans.· UA News, Feb 29, 2012

Malaspina Expedition Returns to Port

TMPL is collaborator in the six-month circumnavigational Malaspina Expedition, that returns to Spain in July. The sampling in this project focuses on deep water.· Nature News, Jul 5, 2011

World under glass a UA gem

The Arizona Daily Star featured the Tucson Marine Phage Lab guided undergraduate project to survey the overall ecology and fish populations of the B2 ocean. · Arizona Daily Star, Aug 26, 2010

Ocean Viruses: Hidden Movers and Shakers of the Earth System

All but overlooked until the past decade, marine viruses far outnumber any other biological entity on the planet. Scientists are only beginning to discover the invisible particles that are the cogs of Earth’s system, changing dynamics in food webs, fisheries,…