Lo de Balogun es un escándalo tan grande como me parece, ¿no?

We teamed with Jim Crott's lab at BU to show that administration of freeze-dried Parabacteroides distasonis extends Drosophila mean lifespan by preventing leaky guts. How? Maybe hormesis. A fun collaboration that features the work of 8 Tufts undergraduates! www.aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/...

Now published on @narjournal.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Join us! Postdoc position (2-3 years) in our lab @molbiolau.bsky.social Looking for candidates with experience in cell culture, genome editing, biochemistry, and/or structural biology. Application opens in August via AU's system but informal enquiries by email are welcome from now. (1/2)

Related: if you know a great undergrad interested in grad school (or if YOU are interested), & they'd like to work in fungal biology using population genomics to study pathogenicity and genome plasticity, please encourage them to reach out! See annehatmaker.com/contact/ for more info on how

Paper accepted!

I will be recruiting research technicians and post-bac fellows and accepting rotation students beginning in fall 2027. Please email me or ask to chat at the FASEB Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements meeting in July if you are interested!

First conference as (almost) PI!

Today is the last day of 11 magnificent years living in the United States. Today, I move back to Spain. I came as a 22 year old aspiring scientist and I’m coming back with a wonderful wife, and the best scientist I could become. And of course, with little Mango.

Extended abstract deadline (June 7th) for FASEB Dynamic DNA Structures in Scottsdale, AZ July 19-24. Speaking slots still open, and scholarships available for trainees (grad students and postdocs). Let your colleagues know! events.faseb.org/event/Dynami...

Last night out in Nashville

Carolyn started this as a whole-genome revisit of the classic 1996 papers on spontaneous nondisjunction from Hawley (Dros X) and Sherman (human 21) labs. She looked at a metacentric (Dros 2) and found that the rules are different - no obvious relationship between ndj and crossovers. Shape matters!

Last (?) preprint as a postdoc in the Merrikh lab! Awesome collaborative effort with graduate student Oyku! I hope people give it a read!

Polynucleotide Phosphorylase Stops Replication Restart by Degrading the RNA within R-loops during Replication-Transcription Conflicts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729377v1

The Ly Lab is recruiting two #postdocs to study intercellular DNA transfer. Join us to tackle fundamental questions at the intersection of genome instability, cell-cell communication, and cancer evolution. Please share! 🙏 Full posting: cri.utsw.edu/careers/

This is beautiful and soccer is wonderful.

Excited to share our latest paper! We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. @cp-cell.bsky.social (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

is this dataset a candidate for SubtiWiki incorporation, @joergstuelke.bsky.social?

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Excited to drop our visual systems pre-print 10 years in the making. We hacked nature's cheat code to protect the eye from light damage. This unexpectedly also boosts rod sensitivity. Huge thanks to collabs Tonia Rex, @amandalea.bsky.social , Alex Bick, and their labs! @evolutionvu.bsky.social

Abstract deadline approaching (May 24) for FASEB Dynamic DNA Structures in Scottsdale, AZ July 19-24. This is a not-to-miss conference if you're interested in the intersection of nucleic acid structures and human health. Speaking slots still open! Please repost. events.faseb.org/event/Dynami...

My lab is currently hiring at the Research Technician level. This would be a great opportunity for a recent graduate looking to gain additional research experience prior to applying to graduate school! Job ad below: careers.uvahealth.org/us/en/job/R0...

MS Word's spell check is reaching unprecedented levels of stupid.

GLASS CEILING SHATTERED 👏 Marie-Louise Eta becomes the first woman appointed to take charge of a men's first team in Europe's top 5 leagues. She will coach Union Berlin for the rest of the Bundesliga campaign 🇩🇪

Abstract deadline approaching (April 15) for the Midwest DNA Repair meeting. Join us for an exciting meeting with outstanding science and valuable networking. Register and share. $100 includes meals, networking, and social events. sites.google.com/view/kumc-mi...

A sneak peak of one of the pages from the upcoming issue of Evolutionary Studies - the Magazine! Join us for #evolution out in the wild!

Research into filamentous actinomycetes, the antibiotic producers, is in steep decline. Loads of natural products chemistry research worldwide but not much aimed at understanding their biology and ecology. The latter is key to unlocking their specialised metabolism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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1/11 In our story out today in @nature.com , we showcase the molecular mechanisms that enable Cas9 to bind and cleave negatively supercoiled ((-)SC) off-targets! 🧬🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #Cas9 #DNATopology #AFM #CryoEM #SingleMolecule #Biophysics

📣 Lanzamos webinario “Choose Europe, Choose Spain”, con Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades y #FECYT. El objetivo es posicionar a España como destino estratégico para el talento científico internacional. ✏️ horizonteeuropa.es/choose-europ... ℹ️ www.horizonteeuropa.es/espana-impul...

Third first-author and first (co-)corresponding author pre-print from my postdoc! In which we do a whole-genome transposon screen to determine how replication-transcription conflicts are resolved in Bacillus subtilis. Check out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@chiquiesteban.me mi mujer y yo nos hemos venido a pasar el finde a tu tierra!

Ahem. Also faculty positions.

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

We are looking for outstanding scientists to develop ambitious research programs in molecular and cellular biology, with special interest in multidisciplinary projects and computational biology.More info: www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr #MolecularBiology #CellBiology #ComputationalBiology #TeamLeaders#I2BC

Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Cool new preprint from the Merrikh lab, from the awesome brand new Dr, Öykü Şensoy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today, and everyday, Go Heels

Excited to announce our latest publication in reporting evidence for three (3!) new whole genome duplications (WGDs) in yeasts. Scientists have often wondered why WGD is so rare in fungi, it turns out we may just not have been looking hard enough! 🧪 🍄 🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Keep Pounding

Last week, faculty, trainees, alumni and friends gathered for our annual retreat. It was a day of talks, trivia and conversation spanning #evolution, medicine, ecology, and genomics. A great reminder of the interdisciplinary community that makes ESI work. More retreat highlights soon…

Adam Luthman says: it depends. Some answers here: rdcu.be/eUVBj

Hoy se sale, y se bebe. Robe Iniesta, el más grande. youtu.be/3tYVVuv18s0?...

This is where I live! Obviously I can't vote, but I will be looking very expectantly for the results on Tuesday!

Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!

The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social 🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬 annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)

If you're new to Nashville, some info in a 🧵. Our tornado season here runs from tonight (when we start getting Fall cold fronts) until about June. While tonight's severe/tornado risk is pretty low, this is good practice for later. (1/6)

1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced