New preprint (and brief🧵)! “Co-occurrence drives horizontal gene transfer (HGT) among marine prokaryotes”. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Finishing the year with a paper submission always feels good! 🛡 🦠 (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Happy holidays everyone! ⭐️🎄

Prophages are inserted in microbial genomes but dynamics and impact of their insertion/excision on community ecology are still quite unclear. Here, authors use induction assays to show that phage induction shapes the microbiome during colitis in mice. Very cool! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now published: "Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Check out the podcast to hear co-senior author Eric Nelson talk about the twists and turns of our study (around 18:25): www.science.org/content/podc...