Life spot on the river today @magdalenoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Alkemade, @timbarra.bsky.social et al. did temporal association analysis on three major fungal crop pathogens collected between 1956 and 2023, identifying genes linked to fungicide resistance and stress responses as frequent sites of adaptation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf241 #genome #evolution

Congratulations @tymekpieszko.bsky.social successful PhD defence yesterday, and many thanks to Matthew Hartfield and Dmitry Filatov for examining.

Congratulations Juliet! Very well deserved for a brilliant body of research. Thank you to Shigeto Dobata and @timbarra.bsky.social for their time and being a great examiner team. 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social

Two Senior Research Fellow jobs @biology.ox.ac.uk on fungal biology in plant and animal/human disease. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

PhD available @biology.ox.ac.uk applying historical genomics to fish populations under pressure www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

New paper from our workshop funded by the Calleva Centre ‪@magdalenoxford.bsky.social‬. We discuss how to minimise the risk of resistance evolution for new fungal control methods using RNA sprays - based on lessons from fungicide resistance studies and evolutionary genomics. doi.org/10.1016/j.fb...

Fungicide resistance is a big reason why we need alternative crop protection measures, but we must consider the risk of those other crop protection measures also selecting for resistance, especially for target-specific methods like RNAi.

🚨Fresh out of press! How do wild bacterial communities respond to environmental perturbations like liming? We experimentally evolved them to find out! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Our new paper on experimental evolution in wild tree-holes -Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation #ISMEJournal @duhitasant.bsky.social Tom Smith Edgar Wong Juli Cohen @kayla-king.bsky.social Tom Bell academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Congratulations to Shian-Li Kelly-Williams, who has won Best Initiative in the @mplsoxford.bsky.social Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) Awards! Shian-Li has created a novel database for undergraduate students in Biology to share resources based on EDI-related content 👇 bit.ly/3IO46dx

Very proud of new DPhil, Simon Kershenbaum; here, messing with planarian (in cake-form). Co-supervised with Aziz Aboobakar. Big thanks to @timbarra.bsky.social and @jordisolana.bsky.social for all their hard work as examiners 🫶 Sorry to miss celebrations in person! 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk

Bit of a crime scene @magdalenoxford.bsky.social tower today, but whodunnit? @biology.ox.ac.uk

New paper out "Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes?" ... well, do they?? @evolletters.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Gene transfer from a different fungus has led to outbreaks of coffee wilt disease 🍄 For the past century, outbreaks have severely impacted coffee production across sub-Saharan Africa New research with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & CABI 👇 bit.ly/4fVLuUV

PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and amazing stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes that are unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...