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Mammals in search of beetles in a sunny water meadow Magdalen College Oxford Biology

Congratulations Hans and @little_peck on this paper from a Masters @Silwood_Park conducted during lockdown, out today. On temperature and host specialists of coffee wilt disease on arabica and robusta coffee. nature.com/articles/s4159…

🐦🎵 Bird song news! 🎵 We're thrilled to share our extensively documented dataset of songs from a wild bird population with you: over 1.1M acoustic units from 109K songs, sung by ~400 individual Great Tits in Wytham Woods. nilomr.github.io/great-tit-hits A 🧵:

Congratulations Jiqiu Wu 吴季秋 on publishing @Silwood_Park masters project on CRISPR dynamics and bacteria-phage interactions in infants. microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Our paper - CRISPR dynamics during the interaction between bacteria and phage in the first year of life is finally out! 🎉🎉 Thanks Tim Barraclough @yuerua1 Daoming Wang Jingyuan Fu make it happen! doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

Interested in evolution, mathematical modelling, genomics and food security? PhD available with us in Oxford, deadline 5th January. Allocated funding for stipend plus fees including international. findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Congratulations Dr Theo Llewellyn Theo Llewellyn for passing your PhD viva with such an excellent Dissertation! So proud 😊 of you! @Timbarraclough9 & @ Tom Prescott Thanks to Mat Fisher and Paul Dyer for being such an enthusiastic panel. #lichens #genomics #BGCs

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…

There is lots of evidence for porous species boundaries, and transfer of beneficial genes between #species But does selection favour porous rather than closed species boundaries? This article by Tim Barraclough Oxford Biology investigates 👉ow.ly/OKJ050RcYlH

And for today's final presentation we had Tim Barraclough talking about the phylogenomics of bdelloid rotifers.

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

Tiny freshwater animals use stolen genes to create antibiotics 🦠 New research in Nature Communications with University of Stirling & Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) shows that when bdelloid rotifers catch an infection, they turn on these genes to help protect themselves 👇 bit.ly/467dYqm

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…

Also posting here Sally Calvert.bsky.social

Gene transfer from a different fungus has led to outbreaks of coffee wilt disease 🍄 Outbreaks have severely impacted coffee production across sub-Saharan Africa New research in PLOS Biology with Tim Barraclough Imperial College London CABI 👇 bit.ly/4fVLuUV