{"id":3457,"date":"2026-09-28T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:06:58","slug":"alyssa-tsukada-joins-industry-professionals-at-harmful-algal-bloom-hab-course-hosted-by-bigelow-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/alyssa-tsukada-joins-industry-professionals-at-harmful-algal-bloom-hab-course-hosted-by-bigelow-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Tsukada joins industry professionals at Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Course hosted by Bigelow Labs!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alyssa Tsukada, an SMD second-year PhD student and Graduate Plankton Assistant for the Narragansett Bay Plankton Time Series, recently attended the Karen A. Steidinger Marine Harmful Algae Taxonomy Training Course at Bigelow Laboratories in Maine. The two-week course consisted of practicing single-cell isolations for culture and DNA analysis, identifying key characteristics of HAb species under light and electron microscopy, and learning about different cell enumeration instrumentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-1024x975.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-1024x975.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-1536x1463.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-2048x1951.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-364x347.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-500x476.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-1000x952.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-1280x1219.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-2000x1905.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1919\/Armored_Dinoflagellate_resized-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Tsukada, an SMD second-year PhD student and Graduate Plankton Assistant for the Narragansett Bay Plankton Time Series, recently attended the Karen A. 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The two-week course consisted of practicing single-cell isolations for culture and DNA analysis, identifying key characteristics of HAb species under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5481,"featured_media":3455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mendendeuerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}