by Rachel Diner — At the Feb­ru­ary 2016 Ocean Sci­ences Meet­ing (OSM) in New Or­leans, hun­dreds of pre­sen­ters shared their ex­pe­ri­ences in­ves­ti­gat­ing the ex­cit­ing lives of mi­crobes in the world's oceans. Com­ing from near and far, nearly 5,000 sci­en­tists and pol­icy-mak­ers swarmed the con­fer­ence cen­ter; some zip­ping from room to room to catch sev­eral talks of in­ter­est, while oth­ers were con­tent to stay...