Pls help us reach #STEM enthusiasts of all ages (well... older than 18!). No experience with science needed, only motivation for active learning, coding, hacking, science outreach, lab work, team work, and sea and sun in #Croatia! Who’s in? 🤓

Transient invaders can induce shifts between alternative stable states of microbial communities, even if the invader does not survive the transition. Check out our recent work biorxiv.org/content/10.110… with C. Ratzke and Jeff Gore

Oh whao, that was long time ago!

Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities. Check our preprint with Jeff Gore and Christoph Ratzke!

"The evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism allows adaptation to DNA replication stress". Our manuscript is out on bioRxiv. Read it, share it, and send us your feedback! @EvolvingMurray MCB_Harvard biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are you interested in joining my lab to study plant-associated microbial communities in pitcher plant or sagebrush ecosystems? At Boise State University in a fun city nestled in the beautiful foothills of the Rockies? More info here: bittlestonlab.com/phd-student

LabXchange is looking for beta testers of our free online platform for science education! Fill out our survey and we'll contact you with further information: forms.gle/oow4JKiYK8LnyH… #SciEd #edchat #edtech #STEM #labxchange

Our latest work on evolutionary repair is out! A great collaboration with Adele Marston, Vasso Makrantoni, and Daniel Robertson. Check out how budding yeast cells adapt to use meiotic cohesin in mitosis!! @EvolvingMurray biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🦠Out now in Nature Ecology&Evolution: Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities doi.org/10.1038/s41559…. Lab experiments and modelling reveal mechanistic origin of biodiversity and stability in microbial community.

Just out: Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities. With Ratzke Lab 🦠⇄🦠 ⁩we show that understanding simple microbial interactions allows to predict the behavior of complex natural communities! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities NatureEcoEvo nature.com/articles/s4155…

Transient invaders can induce lasting changes in microbial communities. Our paper with Ratzke Lab 🦠⇄🦠 and Jeff Gore out today in Science Advances !! advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/8/ea…

Our paper on lineage-specific genes (which lack detectable homologs outside a lineage) is now on bioRxiv. These genes are often interpreted as evolutionarily novel, which is an exciting possibility. But an alternative is that they have homologs that we've just failed to detect.

Your Neighbors Dictate What You Can Do [Murray Lab] mcb.harvard.edu/uncategorized/…

Attention science: I proudly present our work on bet-hedging in yeast metabolism, performed in the labs of @EvolvingMurray and Ethan Garner with Quincey Justman. We found a bizarre and fascinating example of non-genetic variation in yeast metabolic activity. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our take on how to use experimental evolution to learn about cell biological functions is out on Current Biology. With Thomas LaBar, Yu-Ying Phoebe Hsieh and @EvolvingMurray. Here to legally bypass paywalls for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1b4zf3QW8Ru6….

New preprint (biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…) with @EvolvingMurray and David Nelson on toxin-mediated microbial antagonism for your socially-distanced readings! We studied experimentally how antagonism affects establishment dynamics in well-mixed and spatially structured populations.

Simply curious about preprints? Or a fervid advocate, with ideas on the future of the academic publishing system? Join us ASAPbio fellows and a great group of panelists discussing preprints on October 19th. #preprintforward

My lab opens soon at the University of Toronto (UTM Biology) and I'm now recruiting! Please contact me if you're interested in joining and are curious about how we can use high-throughput technologies to answer questions about genetics and evolution. annb-lab.github.io

Ever wondered how multicellular beings might have evolved a life cycle? How did we go from simply dividing as single cells to transitioning between single and multi celled phases? Julien Barrere @EvolvingMurray have a story for you!