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me during the "Free Time" slots at the Gordon Research Conferences

Excited to share some new work led by Jimmy Ferrare. How do rapidly adapting pop'ns balance short-term selection for fitness & long-term selection for evolvability? We develop a theory to predict how these indirect selection pressures emerge from competition btw linked mutations

How do bacteria navigate environmental variation in human hosts? In our newest preprint, we find bacteria can use “permanent” solutions for temporary problems — mutation-mediated phenotypic switching! See: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today in Nature Communications ! Here follows a thread (1/ ) link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Great work from a great team!!

Thrilled to see the first review article from my lab out in advance Annual Reviews, helmed by Célia Souque: From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Super excited to share my postdoc work investigating how mating and parental behaviors evolve using wild species of mice combined with single nucleus RNA-sequencing of the hypothalamus 🐭🧠🧬! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

1/8. 𝐧𝐜𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐬 often fly under the radar... but they're vital in bacteria-phage conflicts & beyond. Curious 𝙬𝙝𝙮!? 🤔 Here, we dive into their immune roles, plasticity, and discuss their hidden potential! 🧬🚀 🔗:cell.com/trends/microbi…

Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. kxuelab.com 1/2

Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with Siân Owen, Michael Baym, Natalia Quinones-Olvera, Kesther and Carmen! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

Prevalence of Group II Introns in Phage Genomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Excited to be a part of this team! Check out our work investigating scientific problem solving in LLMs!