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Eco-evo with microbes. I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. The University of Tromsø. She/her
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Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on: "Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning" Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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It is finally out! Muntathar Al-Shimary, @doudna-lab.bsky.social , @cresslab.bsky.social and I present a gene knockdown tool that works in diverse bacteriophages: CRISPRi through antisense RNA Targeting (CRISPRi-ART)! Check it out @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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nice to see phage therapy addressed in parliament!

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Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

A very progressive statement from NERC 👇 Moving simply for the sake of moving has been a career dealbreaker for the loss of connections. I have had an anxiety disorder since the age of 6 and I heavily rely on having a strong support network to succeed academically and manage my mental health.

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📣Just 1 week left to apply for 2x 5-year researcher posts in experimental evolution #mevosky #microsky in @mermanchester.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social + 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton

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Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

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Rarely do I ever print out papers but this one legit deserves analog attention. Enthralled to say the least. So much bioengineering wisdom gleaned from this. My toolbox doth expandeth. Phenomenal work by @fernpizza.bsky.social and another @baym.lol lab banger. SO. GOOD. #MEvoSky

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Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual? #CurrOpinMicrobiol by @salazarafra.bsky.social and @saramitri.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Proud to work in this organization that puts unwavering support of its communities, open, independent science and scientific integrity front and center

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Should I stay or should I go: transmission trade-offs in phages and plasmids @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion by @jhuisman.bsky.social, Andrina Bernhard and @claudiaigler.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

New version of DefenseFinder available defensefinder.mdmlab.fr (& cli) Now encompassing 263 systems (+111 this year..!). Thanks @ftesson.bsky.social, DefenseFinder grandmaster. Full list of systems here: defense-finder-models/List_system_article.md at master · mdmparis/defense-finder-models

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I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF. Goddamn it.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Happy to share our latest piece of work on the PARIS bacterial immune system. We performed a detailed characterization of the AriB Toprim nuclease, the effector of PARIS immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

New paper out in ISME Journal. Social interactions between strains shape bacterial communities. However, their impact on community functioning is lower compared to basic strain identity features. @joskramer.bsky.social @alexfig.bsky.social @simonmarech.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 🧬 Updated preprint on the completed BASEL collection - what's new? Some fun with bacterial immunity and a new P22 relative infecting E. coli K-12. A thread 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

New paper in @microbiologysociety.org Microbial Genomics Journal with collaborators in Malaysia examing 10 years of #Acinetobacter baumannii in a tertiary healthcare center www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I'll be going to the 2025 Gordon Conference on 'microbial population biology'! Super excited to learn about lots of cool science from both new and familiar faces, and would be open to visiting folks while I'm back in the US this summer 🎉

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🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below:

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Hi folks, I'm excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. 🧪 #MEvoSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

I think the Microbial Evolution feed is working! Simply add the #MEvoSky hashtag to your post and it will aggregate to the feed linked below. Feel free to introduce yourself in context of microbial evo and adjacent topics. Experimental and directed evo welcome too! bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Hi phage pholks, If anyone has Endotrap kits and wants to share for patient cases let me know. #phage #phagetherapy

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth @naturephysics.bsky.social from Peter Yunker with Brian Hammer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Gram-neg bacteria can resist #phages by modifying their LPS, also affecting #antibiotic susceptibility. @lavishaparab.bsky.social &co show that antibiotic concentrations influence evolution of E. coli phage resistance, leading to enhanced phage-antibiotic synergy 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4hPmO0X

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New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

I'm thrilled to announce our latest work is now published in Cell! Viruses encode numerous proteins that inhibit host defenses, but identifying immune-modulatory proteins among millions of viral sequences has been nearly impossible - until now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Hello world! I'm starting out on bluesky with a job posting - we're looking for lab research tech who shares our love of bugs. More info here brownlab.biology.gatech.edu/opportunities/

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Phage defence system abundances vary across environments and increase with viral density www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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We sampled a "fjord-lake" last year near Tromsø (Norway) to study microbial processes in oxygen-deficient conditions with a focus of methylmercury production and anoxygenic anaerobic photosynthesis. Hope you will like our documentary! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eds...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

My new office! Now to decide on how to decorate...

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

The Norwegian One Health Strategy Against AMR 2024–2033 is now available in English. It emphasizes a cross-sectoral approach and global cooperation to reduce infections and preserve effective antimicrobial agents. www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumente...

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Ooooh, look at @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social's pretty cover Bioelectric coordination (!) of colonial behavior in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Joy! Published today in PNAS: multi-toxin T6SS attacks limit resistance evolution in competitors! Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments