I’m delighted to share our new preprint: ‘Metabolic similarity and the predictability of microbial community assembly’. It wraps up >5 years of work with @asanchezlab exploring the predictability of complex microbiomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/23).

Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under the South Pacific region. reut.rs/3tPGrC4

Story time: when I started my postdoc with Chris Waters in August last year, we aimed to use V. cholerae to understand how genetic interactions, including epistasis and pleiotropy, influences its pathogenesis and evolution. 1/18

NEW Perspective: Kost, Patil, Friedman, Garcia & Ralser argue that metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities @kostchristian Kiran Raosaheb Patil Jonathan Friedman Sarahi L. Garcia @ralserlab nature.com/articles/s4156…

Happy to see our paper on intraspecific thermal trait variation in an important marine cyanobacterium out in PNAS! Dual thermal ecotypes coexist within a nearly genetically identical population of the unicellular marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Do the mutations that drive evolution improve many traits or few? How might this change over the course of evolution? Excited to share our new work exploring these questions in the first 2 steps of adaptation w/ Yuping Li Gavin Sherlock Dmitri Petrov 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do we predict the statistical associations between mutations that spontaneously emerge in an evolving population? Excited to share some new work w/ Zhiru Liu and Benjamin Good that approaches this question!