Evolutionary biologist mostly interested in the evolution of replicative genetic elements, bacteria and phages
Joined August 2009
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Check out our preprint about insertion sequences repairing double strand breaks (and duplicating without target site duplications):
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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🦠🧬New paper🧬🦠
A family of ICEs infiltrated the P. syringae species complex! PsICEs are highly recombinogenic but conserve backbone genes punctuated by diverse cargo genes. The most common one? A transposon able to manipulate bacterial metabolism.
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pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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This is a very cool piece of work from @gallie_jenna et al Large-scale duplication events underpin population-level flexibility in tRNA gene copy number in Pseudomonas fluorescens academic.oup.com/nar/advance… – at Scotland, United Kingdom
Check out our opinion on developing model phages into therapeutic agents: academic.oup.com/ve/article/…
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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/ – at Würzburg, Germany
Our manuscript is finally out in Molecular Biology and Evolution: academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
We just submitted our first phage paper to biorxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…). This was a mammoth effort by Jordan Romeyer Dherbey with help from Lavisha (@lavisha_parab) and Jenna (@gallie_jenna).
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We have a 2-year postdoc fellowship available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and guiding experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. RTs appreciated. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/1…
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Open group leader position in #prokaryote #phylogenetics! Join our vibrant community of evolutionary biologists in @_K_E_C. Inquiries during #SMBE2023 are welcome (to T. Dagan). @CRC1182 @trans_evo @kieluni details here: tinyurl.com/4266uyve
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Peer-reviewed version in @NatureComms of our (@yashraj_chavhan @SutirthDey)
paper on experimental evolution of bacterial multicellularity by genetic assimilation of phenotypically plastic cell clustering nature.com/articles/s41467-0… Don't miss the new supplementary movies!
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Lovely to see our study out in mBio! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128… The short read : don't assume higher antibiotic resistance causes higher fitness in bacteria selected with sub-inhibitory antibiotics. With wonderful colleagues @diepesce @SumanGDas @Mark_P_Zwart and Arjan de Visser!
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See our final lineup for Phage Bites symposium!
Six talks from PhDs/ECRS followed by an expert discussion on synthetic biology to create therapeutic phage! Still time to register
Our ECR speakers on Twitter - @GB13Faithless @BhavyaPapudeshi @lavisha_parab @CathyDavenport_
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Frederic Bertels @fredeBio and collaborators from @MPI_EvolBio have a recommended #preprint in @PeerCommunityIn: RAREFAN: A webservice to identify REPINs and RAYTs in bacterial genomes doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.22.4…
Awesome paper! academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
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We have a new preprint with @andydfarr and @RaineyLab. If you are interested in barcoding a microbial species, have a look at our adventure to barcode P.fluorescens SBW25. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We just submitted our first phage paper to biorxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…). This was a mammoth effort by Jordan Romeyer Dherbey with help from Lavisha (@lavisha_parab) and Jenna (@gallie_jenna).
However, by simply evolving phages to overcome E. coli C resistance, we have already managed to increase the host range of PhiX174 and we believe that these kinds of evolution experiments can be used to evolve PhiX174 to target any given E. coli strain.