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gerdasaxer.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologists. I work on microbes for industrial applications.
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Happy to see this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social! We combined experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to ask: can bacteria evolve to swim away from their viral parasites? 1/n #evosky 🦠 #phage 🧪 (gift link:) www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TETM9...

submitted 179 days ago • 5 comments

The hidden cost of aggregation lies in the incompatibilities between cells with different genetic dialects doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @jahanisrat.bsky.social, @treyjscott.bsky.social, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social, and David C Queller

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Are you interested in research in evolutionary genetics & genomics 🧬 (but maybe not ready to apply to graduate school)? Come work with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Rice University, University of Houston, or Texas A&M! Apply to our #NSF funded post-bacc research program! (Please share!)

submitted 208 days ago • 1 comment

Hello new phage phollowers! I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition" www.cell.com/trends/micro...

submitted 211 days ago • 8 comments

We have new yeasty pre-print out led by star postdoc Jennifer Molinet. This paper has it all: wild yeast from Patagonia, experimental evolution, whole genomes, de novo mutations, gene expression, CRISPR, and of course, beer!🍻🧪

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