Media

Writing for general readers

• Deep-sea sponges survive in complete darkness in ways we didn’t know beforeThe Conversation, 27 May 2026 With Torsten Thomas, written as the Microbiome paper on the Calyx sp. symbiont community came out. Also published in Portuguese.

News coverage

• BBC News Brasil3 December 2024 The virus found in the deep off the coast of Rio de Janeiro that was named after Indigenous mythology. On the ISME Journal paper describing the simplest sponge holobiont, and on naming its virus, archaeon and bacterium after Tupinambá mythology. In Portuguese.
• O Globo31 May 2026 Deep sea sponges survive in the total darkness of the ocean in surprising ways. On the Microbiome paper about the Calyx sp. symbiont community. In Portuguese.