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#Genes for #cooperation are not more likely to be carried by plasmids #ProcB #OpenAccess ow.ly/JNbb50QIFbA Anna Dewar #Microbiology Dr Laurie Belcher Stuart West #Genomics

Really enjoyed the Microbes NG Pop Up conference in Oxford today! 🦠 🧫 Was great to meet everyone and to speak about bacterial pangenomes. 🧬 #MNGPopUp

Why do pangenomes vary so much across bacteria? 🦠🧬 We show that bacterial lifestyle is the key factor shaping pangenome fluidity. Read more in our paper out now in PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… With Chunhui Hao Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul Stuart West

Bacteria with more variable lifestyles have more fluid pangenomes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Anna Dewar Chunhui Hao Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul

🦠 Lifestyle plays a key role in shaping bacterial pangenomes 🦠 New research in PNASNews shows that species which live in more variable environments have more fluid pangenomes 👇 bit.ly/3wC8M0w

Please RT: Funded PhD project (UK students) on the ecology and evolution of antibiotic resistance 🦠🧬🫁 at Queen’s University Belfast. Application deadline: 21 June Please 📧 me with any questions, happy to chat! findaphd.com/phds/project/h…

DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See decodinggenomes.org for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2

I’m really proud to share that our paper on the diversity of social complexity in termites has been published!!!

Larger ant colonies have favoured the evolution of more worker castes 🐜 New research in NatureEcoEvo on these 'superorganisms' could help us learn more about the evolution of complexity in multicellular organisms 👇 bit.ly/3AGVUrL

New preprint out! 📢 Thread coming soon 👀 ...

Great-looking event in Oxford with Microbiology Society for those interested in microbial genomics...

Very excited that next month, I’ll be starting a Career Development Research Fellowship at St John's College! I’ll be using comparative genomics and phylogenetics to tackle broad, across-species evolutionary questions in bacteria and eukaryotes. Can’t wait to get started! 🧬🦠

So exciting to see our (Liam Shaw, @Sheppard_Lab, Ed Feil) piece on the current state of plasmid epidemiology is now out: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… Nuffield Department of Medicine Oxford Biology Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research Milner Centre for Evolution

At #ISBE2024 next week? Come see my first ever conference poster. (I'm cheating - it is a slight update of an awesome poster by Anna Dewar )

Want to know why silk wasps lay male eggs first? Turns out it's to provide mates for their daughters! Shocking family secrets revealed in my latest paper on Microstigmus rosae Oxford Biology University of Exeter CEC link.springer.com/article/10.100…

If you explore the college gardens, you might be rewarded with not one, not two, but all three college cats...! Thanks to CDRF Anna Dewar for the impressive feat of spotting them all together 🐱🐱🐱

Comparative genomics needs to use phylogenetic methods: why, how and common questions nature.com/articles/s4157… Anna Dewar Dr Laurie Belcher

Huge congratulations to Anna Dewar on winning an Early Career Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists! Anna is a Career Development Research Fellow at St John's, working on bacterial genome evolution. 🦠🧬