Curious about multicellular life cycle evolution? Check out the summary of our latest study in cyanobacteria tinyurl.com/37r68faw with Yuriy Pichugin & a yeast study tinyurl.com/5n6c2kf5 by Julien Barrere & Andrew Murray! Big thanks Will Ratcliff & Peter Conlin for the great dispatch!

Auch das Projekt #MicroMeetsEvo, welches ich zusammen mit Katrin Hammerschmidt durchführe und von der @jherzstiftung unterstützt wird stellt sich hier erstmalig vor 👇🏻

The Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality workshop is well underway at @MPI_EvolBio. Today’s speakers include Richard Watson, Jyotsna Kalathera, and @elkobadelko. Looking forward to another day of interesting discussion! workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/80/

1/5 📢 Deadline in a month - 30/06 Postdoc position in Theoretical Biology in our group (tecoevo.github.io) at the Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology University of Würzburg, Germany #AcademicTwitter #PostdocJob

We are excited to share first evidence that casposons indeed actively translocate in Methanosarcina mazei! Congrats Finn, second PhD paper!👏👏👏 Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 1 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Hi folks, we have a new preprint out on the #MuLTEE, examining the molecular basis of multicellular evolution. We found that an ancient protein folding system, Hsp90, can be tuned to drive rapid convergent multicellular evolution. 1/24 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Peer-reviewed version in Nature Communications of our (Yashraj Chavhan Sutirth Dey) paper on experimental evolution of bacterial multicellularity by genetic assimilation of phenotypically plastic cell clustering nature.com/articles/s4146… Don't miss the new supplementary movies!

Awesome opportunitity to join the fantastic group of Daniel Rozen Universiteit Leiden to experimentally study the evolution of microbial multicellularity. Highly recommended 👇

PhD Position in Experimental Evolution of Microbial Multicellularity. #PhD#Streptomyces#LeidenUniversity

Very excited to announce that a new PhD position is available in my group. The project aims at analysing the evolution of multicellularity in bacteria. In particluar, the role of altruistic cell suicide will be studied. Details can be found here: uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

A new fully funded PhD position is available in my group on bacteria, death, and the evolution of multicellularity. Tools: Microfluidics, Microscopy, Transcriptomics Come join our vibrant group Uni Osnabrück. Please RT. More Details here 👇 uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Incredibly proud of the work done by Dana Lauenroth, bridging fundamental and translational sciences, specifically from theoretical biology to agriculture. Learnt lots from her working on #herbicide resistance evolution in perennial #weeds with an explicit #Johnsongrass lifecycle

An exciting PhD position is available in my group to work on the evolution of multicellularity in bacteria. Tools: microfluidics, transcriptomics, mutational analyses The project is part of the SPP2389 Bacteria! Beyond the single cell! Deadline: 18.08.2023 Please RT More info👇 uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Building a solid research profile takes time. We want to support exactly that in #theoreticalbiology and offer *two* long-term postdoc positions. Details and application procedure is here tecoevo.github.io/positions/

An exciting new PhD project is available in my group to work on synergistic coevolution. The project will analyse an experiment in which a cooperative interaction evolved between two bacterial strains. Deadline: October 13, 2023 Please RT More details: uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Cuboidal cell packing is a common yet understudied route to multicellularity. In work led by Rozenn Pineau and @ozan_g_b, we explore its origin as a multicellular geometry capable of supporting a transition in individuality using fission yeast. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are you an internalist or an externalist when it comes to explanations? In our new work, we explore this distinction in the context of evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs). Check it out here: [osf.io/9h26t/].

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. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It was quite a journey, but a lot of fun. Thanks to PurposeProject for making this interdisciplinary project possible. For more context see: osf.io/preprints/osf/…