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Today Dr. Kayla King (@kaylacking) was appointed Canada Excellence Research Chair in Evolutionary Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions. Her research aims to better understand the evolution of infection and immunity in a changing world. UBC Zoology UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology TIPS_SPIIE

🚨New preprint from our lab: How does coevolving with other species differ from what happens when individual species evolve on their own? A couple of years ago Nittay Meroz set out to answer this question using experimental evolution of bacteria. >> biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔬 Excited to share our latest work led by An Nguyen: testing whether Horizontal Gene Transfer can make reverse evolution happen. rdcu.be/du8SD NatureEcoEvo School of Biological Sciences, Monash Monash Science Centre to Impact AMR

How stable are bacterial genomes as they adapt to an environment? My collaboration with @anuraglimdi, Alex Couce, @RELenski, and Olivier Tenaillon exploring this over 50,000 generations of evolution is out today! 1/ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

One year postdoc available to work on on the tempo and mode of genome evolution in wild communities Oxford Biology Closing date 22nd March. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

The 'never ending' search for nutrient/drug transporters in M. tuberculosis!! With a combination of proteomics, genomics/bioinformatics and biochemical assays; we scrutinized outer membrane of Mtb to identify putative transporter proteins. Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Our new lab at Rutgers CABM is growing! We are currently recruiting for the following positions: Postdoc: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/224890 Lab Assistant: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/225009 Summer Intern: cabm.rutgers.edu/research/cabm-… #hiring #CRISPR #biochemistry #postdoc #rutgers #labtech #research

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…

Our session on Microbial Experimental Evolution at #ASM2024 is under way! Vaughn Cooper (see: vscooper@bsky) kicked us off with a killer first talk, using experimental evolution to reverse engineer the population composition and dynamics of P. aeruginosa in CF patients. Beautiful detective work!

Alita Burmeister Mahfuza Akter Sophie Bridwell Duhita Sant is taking us back to the OG: original germ (E. coli), and how cross feeding affects the distribution of fitness effects (such as cool question!).

Truely honoured to present my work and share a session with some incredible people doing amazing science #ASM2024

Proud to have been part of this work with Chris Blake and Michael J. McDonald (and Tim Connallon) on how community evolution can alter ecosystem tipping points. Please check it out below! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Why are there so many fitness metrics in microbial ecology? I was confused - with @Michael_Manhart , I developed a framework that unifies existing statistics of relative fitness and shows how they all derive from a few basic principles. Preprint is up! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

It looks like I never posted anything (*but see below) on what are probably the most surprising results my lab obtained so far. Anyway, this work—led by an outstanding former PhD student Sarah Ardell in collaboration with Milo Johnson—is now published: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and high stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at School of Biological Sciences to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates.