What do you expect evolution to look like in a microbial population? Check out our new study offering a view of that over 1000 generations in yeast in the lab. co-led by Alex N Nguyen Ba, josé, in Michael Desai 's lab nature.com/articles/s4158…

#OA New book chapter with @alanmcn1 Prof Mary J. O'Connell Fiona J. Whelan Maria Rosa Domingo Sananes McInerney JO, Whelan FJ, Domingo-Sananes MR, McNally A, O’Connell MJ (2020) Pangenomes and Selection: The Public Goods Hypothesis. In: Tettelin H., Medini D. (eds) The Pangenome doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

I truly wish I had written this mcsweeneys.net/articles/sure-…

Ever gotten a bunch of viral contigs, and wondered: "Mmnnh which ones are interesting, and which ones are just useless" ? Well, wonder no more: @SNayfach has you covered with CheckV, which automatically detect host contamination and predict completeness of viral contigs \o/

While many microbiologists are not expert bioinformaticians, they are experts in the organisms they study ... Here, we introduce Bactopia, an integrated suite ... for flexible analysis of Illumina genome sequencing projects of bacteria from the same taxon.

This is great. 😎😷

Postdoctoral Associate in single-cell analysis for environmental microbiology - collaboration between Manalis and Polz labs. manalis-lab.mit.edu/postdoc.html Ideal for engineering minded biologists or biologically minded engineers. Please retweet.

So cool ! I think this phasmid approve (shame the name is already taken 😄)

Invasion of the giants! Exciting work by M Moniruzzaman and @FOAylward showing endogenized giant viruses in algal genomes. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Love this!

I'm happy to announce #anvio v7, with the code name 'hope' after 'Hope E. Hopps' 🎉 Anvi'o 'hope' comes with a myriad of improvements nad new toys to help you resolve your New Year's Resolutions that require integrated multi-omics 😇 github.com/merenlab/anvio…

Proud to share our latest work showing that interactions between strains govern the eco-evo dynamics of microbial communities, led by Akshit Goyal Akshit Goyal, Leonora Bittleston Leonora Bittleston and Gabriel Leventhal Gabriel Leventhal ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new review paper!! 🥳🥳 Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution With @alvsanmillan, @Jav_DelaFuente , Ricardo León-Sampedro, and Craig MacLean in Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

I'm beyond excited to announce that our article with MetaorganismResearch and @BEDutilh is now online The ISME Journal! Be prepared for amazing #phage #eukaryote #microbiome interplay in #sponges and a new #CLEM imaging approach to spot #viruses in animals. Trailer⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4139…

Exciting collaboration with the Eldar Lab (Tasneem, Avigdor Eldar), where we show how mobile genetic elements sense susceptible neighbors through short-range communication and trigger horizontal gene transfer in response. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Here it is! I'm not sure chromosomes can be considered MGEs. What is clear is that the transfer of chromosomal genes via lateral transduction is more efficient than the transfer of classical MGEs. Our results raise questions about our definition of MGEs. disq.us/t/42ojt2w

Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria by B. Arnold, I-Ting Huang & Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social in Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

Our review on HGT and adaptive evolution in bacteria is out! nature.com/articles/s4157… Really enjoyed working on this with Brian John Arnold and Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social How does the shuttling and shuffling of genes interact with selection? Bottom line: we should be prepared to be surpised

Review on HGT in bacteria, with a focus on progress/challenges of identifying adaptive transfers. Inspiring to work with I-Ting Huang and Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social on this! nature.com/articles/s4157…

The Secret Lives of Microbial Mobile Genetic Elements is out in Philosophical Transactions of the The Royal Society Royal Society B! Edited by me, Dr. Ellie Harrison, and @surt_lab. 📗 Read our introduction here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…