Eric’s work on VOCs produced by a diatom. Many of these VOCs are consumed by SAR11, causing the diatom to work 20% harder to keep up with the bacterial demand! Eric compared VOC production by T. pseudonana in monoculture and in co-culture with HTCC1062. He used PTR-ToF/MS and a clever experiment using a hydrocarbon trap to show the impact of VOC consumption on carbon fixation rates. Published in Environmental Microbiology.