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Jacob R. Winnikoff, PhD
Life finds a way across a vast range of physical conditions, from the subseafloor to the stratosphere and from subzero ice to superheated hydrothermal vents.
We humans inhabit a tiny patch of the livable pressure-temperature space. How does the rest of life work?
Hello and welcome! I study the fundamental effects of pressure and temperature on marine organisms, cells, and molecules. I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Girguis Lab at Harvard University and was a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow from 2022-24.
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January 14 2025: Grease Under Pressure – The Movie
Thanks to MBARI’s excellent SciComm Team, a charismatic collection of comb jellies and some preciously personified phospholipids, you can get the gist of the below paper in a little over four minutes!
June 27 2024: New paper out on deep-sea pressure adaptation!
Stymied by the Science paywall? Just request my personal copy of the article and SI.
No registration of any kind is required. The team and I appreciate your interest and look forward to hearing any of your thoughts or questions!
The study also enjoys some great freely available press coverage, thanks to Elizabeth Anne Brown with SciAm, Sean Cummings at the AAAS, and Yasemin Saplakoglu with Quanta Magazine:
Scientific American: How Delicate Comb Jellies Withstand Crushing Depths
News from Science: How jellyfish* survive pressures that would crush you
Quanta: The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea
*Let’s not forget that there’s no such thing as a jellyfish. Journalists frequently don’t compose their own headlines.
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