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Excited to share our latest work! 📝 We measured the fitness effect of 136 AMR genes and found that many are neutral or even beneficial without selection. 🤯🧬 Oxygen availability can flip their fitness and our stochastic model indicates that oxygen fluctuations help maintain them. Learn more 👇🏼

This is a very beautiful paper from the dissertation of @daniireyes.bsky.social in @ayari.bsky.social lab on how species interactions matter for antibiotic resistance.

New preprint from the lab! Stress-Induced Cooperation Promotes Tolerance in Resource-Limited Auxotrophic Microbial Consortia. Great and long journey with great collaborators.

We’re very happy to share the results from the last chapter of my PhD, now out as a preprint on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab! The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details: jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems

New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

We’re back! ✨ The next #MeeHubs26 is coming with 7 hubs across the globe and incredible lineups at each. Can’t wait to share more soon! meehubs.org

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... #microbiology #ecology

While you wait for the next MEEhubs conference: We've written up the participants' impressions, the organisers' thoughts, reflections on the expectations we scientists have on conferences, and much more in @femsjournals.bsky.social, led by Ariane Wenger. Check out doi.org/10.1093/fems....

✳️ En el Instituto de Ecología de la UNAM: 🧵3/3 📢🧪 Técnico/a en comunicación de la ciencia 🤝 Técnico/a en gestión de proyectos transdisciplinarios www.ecologia.unam.mx/convocatoria...

✳️ En el Instituto de Ecología de la UNAM: 🧵2/3 🌱 Investigador(a) en síntesis ecológica 🦠 Investigador(a) en ecología de enfermedades 🦠 🏬 Investigador(a) en ecología urbana 🏬

📢📢 Varias plazas disponibles para investigador@s y técnic@s académic@s en México 🧵 ✳️En el INECOL: investigador(a) en biología, ecología, conservación y comportamiento de insectos 🐝🐞🪲🦗🐜

New paper out! 🔈🔈📣📣 Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through Insertion Sequence-mediated gene inactivation. Combining experimental and computational approaches, we unveil how two of the most prevalent bacterial MGE accelerate the evolution of AMR. 🧵👇🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Postdoc position to work at the Institut Pasteur with Alex Kaminski and Didier Mazel on Z-DNA phages ! research.pasteur.fr/en/job/a-two...

A 2 yr postdoc position at the Bacterial Genome Plasticity Unit of the Institut Pasteur (Paris) led by @amazeld.bsky.social in collaboration with Pierre-Alexandre Kaminski, funded by the French National Research Agency 👇

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Do plasmids evolve faster 🐇, slower 🐢, or just like chromosomes 🧬? In our new paper, we tackled this question using theory, simulations, bioinformatics, and experiments! 👇 Check out all the details in Paula’s thread! Hint: 🐇 (most of the time)

🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

New preprint led by @brunoluviano.bsky.social & Fernando Santos. We show that filamentation enhances bacterial survival under toxic stress — not as collateral damage, but as a regulated morphological response. TL;DR: Filamentation isn’t a symptom, it’s a strategy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Two Postdocs (Lausanne, Switzerland) Bacterial genomics in the context of evolutionary epidemiology, with potential projects including antibiotic resistance, HGT and plasmid dynamics. with @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social at University of... More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2309

Congrats Marian!

We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems #MicroSky

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Apply now for this year's Gordon Research Conference in Microfluidics! See details and information about this week's featured speaker here: tinyurl.com/grcmicroflui...

⚠️ Job(s) alert! ⚠️ We are launching a new postdoctoral program in Systems Biology at IBFG. Join us! 👉 Several positions available with competitive work conditions for up to 4 years 📄 More info: jdiazc9.github.io/files/jobs/2...

Please RT: Associate Professor position in my department at the University of Oxford. Broad search in molecular and cellular biology: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📢 ¡Atención estudiantes de licenciatura! ¿Vives en un país en desarrollo ("low- and middle-income country) como México o muchos otros en Latinoamérica? ¡El premio Sanger está abierto! 👩🏽‍🔬🦠🧪🧫 Participa para ganar una #estancia de #investigación con #beca completa: www.sanger.ac.uk/about/the-sa...

Join us! 4 Assistant/ Associate Professor posts available at University of Warwick School of Life Sciences, 2 in Host-Pathogen interactions and 2 in Plant Sciences: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #microsky

Join us in Kiel, Northern Germany, for a PhD and a Postdoc project, both on the genomic basis of C. elegans-microbiome interactions. Application deadline: 21 Nov. 2024. For more details, see: evoecogen-kiel.de/phd-microbiome.

📣 PhD on mutation rate and #AMR evolution in E. coli starting Oct'25 with me, @whelanfj.bsky.social & Mato Lagator at University of Manchester (MERMan Group @mermanchester.bsky.social) Please email me if interested. Open to UK and international students #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New postdocs fellowship at MIT for folks interested in applications of AI. Fellows will have advisors in both AI and a discipline. Please reach out if interested in applying cutting edge AI to the microbiome or microbial evolution! computing.mit.edu/tayebati-pos...

Our paper on plasmid-driven heterogeneity is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sanmillan.bsky.social @ayari.bsky.social @jerorb.bsky.social @craigmaclean.bsky.social

New perspective paper with the amazing @asanchezlab.bsky.social @javierdelafuente.bsky.social and Juan Diaz-Colunga. Can we use global epistasis patterns to predict/understand plasmid-mediated AMR evolution? www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Delighted to announce a call for applications for the PSL-QLife Summer School on 'Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales', to be held in Paris, July 8-12, 2024.  Application deadline April 8, 2024: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...

If understanding the eco-evo dynamics of Icelandic hot-spring microbial communities sounds like fun, then this might be the perfect PhD for you! With @coytelab.bsky.social and Sophie Nixon and part of an exciting multidisciplinary consortium www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Opportunity 👀👀👀👀 Minority travel award to MICROBE. Deadline is soon! Please share! asm.org/travel-award...

Please Repost! Tenure track Assistant Professor position in Disease Ecology in my Department at UCR! This is a great time to join our growing department. Deadline is Jan. 22, so please check it out. aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01846

Here's how to organize a "watch party" to make the most out of attending MEEhubs virtually!

Are you joining our conference virtually? Why not host a local Watch Party to watch the talks together with colleagues! It's super easy - more information on our website: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com#/event/4373/...

🔥 Just under 1 month until the MEEhubs 2024 conference! 🔥 Detailed program now online on our website - Submission deadline for virtual posters TODAY!! - Registration deadline in-person hubs TODAY!! (Oxford closed) - Registration for virtual-only attendance til Jan 5 2024! #MicroSky www.meehubs.org