This project always needed the right person: Congrats to Dr. @ofsheff.bsky.social for taking it on and seeing it through. Thanks also to our excellent collaborator and co-corresponding author Prof. Sima Setayeshgar.

Congrats to Dr. Olivia Schakel @ofsheff.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense last Friday! Read about Olivia's work at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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First First-Author Paper Alert! Thrilled to share our work on R. palustris & V. natriegens! Loss-of-function nitrogenase mutants thrive when separated from their competitive ancestor-showing how microbial interactions can shape biodiversity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...