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Current Biology just published two cool papers on the role of life cycles in the evolution of multicellularity. One by Andrew Murray and Julien Barrere, and the other by Katrin Hammerschmidt et al. Peter Conlin and I discuss them in this Insight article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Rapid recombination is an important driver of HIV intra-host evolution. Because recombination requires that multiple viruses co-infect a cell, Elena Romero and I wondered if high viral loads increase HIV's recombination rate. tl;dr: we think they do! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In case you're looking for an article to inspire you, check out this superb new offering from @ozan_g_b, Ali Dahaj, Yunker Lab, Will Ratcliff, and their colleagues. Big congratulations (even bigger than the evolved yeast snowflakes!) to the team on this exciting work!!

A wonderful new resource for HGT research! After separately contributing creative new techniques to measure plasmid conjugation, Olivia Kosterlitz & Jana S. Huisman teamed up to write a comprehensive and insightful set of guidelines on the topic. Check out the thread and paper! 👇

I have some preliminary good news, the short of it is that I will be hiring a postdoc soon to work on a collaborative project with Dr. Seunghyun Sim (an amazing chemist) to evaluate the role of spatial structure in community function using bio-printing and directed evolution.

Congratulations to Dr. Sally Otto, recipient of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award! Don't miss her award talk on Friday, June 2 at virtual #Evol2023! evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2… @sarperotto Evolution Meetings

I am so excited to read this! I love how each of these authors thinks!

Exciting new resource for math bio folks!

🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

After a truly amazing presentation on “Evolution of Plasmid Transfer Genes in Bacterial Communities”, a huge congratulations to Olivia Kosterlitz for earning the prestigious Plasmid Biology Prize at the 2024 International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs meeting in Hamamatsu Japan!