We're hiring two technicians to work on the evolution of multicellularity at Georgia Tech! Both positions will use yeast genetics / confocal microscopy / quant. image analysis / cell culture, etc careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/CA… careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/CA… Please RT! Interviews start ASAP

New paper out today, “Oxygen suppression of macroscopic multicellularity”. nature.com/articles/s4146… This work was led by @Ozan_g_b, in collaboration with Chris Reinhard, Eric Libby, and Rozenn Pineau. Support by U.S. National Science Foundation, ARCHIVED – NASA Astrobiology, and Packard Foundation. A thread.

New mini-review led by Pedro Márquez-Zacarías and Peter Conlin, in collaboration with Jennifer P and Kai Tong, on why aggregative multicellular organisms have never evolved to be complex. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s… 1/12

Well, this has been a long-awaited day- the first paper on our multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) is on the BioRxiv. Ever wonder how simple multicellular organisms evolve to become larger and more complex over thousands of gens? 1/35 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pentz & Lind extend a bacterial experimental #evolution system for Pseudomonas fluorescens #biofilm formation to P protegens They show which evolutionary factors can and can't yet be predicted for the system Jennifer P Peter Lind Learn more🔎: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Today my paper with @ribosaur on new genetic codes comes out in eLife - the journal! It's been a labor of love over the past five years. Highlights in thread 🧵 (1/6) elifesciences.org/articles/71402

One of the sustained rays of light over the last two years has been editing a book on the evolution of multicellularity with Peter Conlin and @xprinceps. Our goal with here is to provide a broad overview of the topic- a one stop shop for those entering the field. 1/32

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Frank Rosenzweig and I are co-organizing sessions on experimental evolution and the evolution of multicellularity for the 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference #AbSciCon If you work on either of these topics, please submit an abstract by Jan. 19, 2022! 🦠🔬🌍🔭

Looking for #postdocjobs? Here's a holiday gift for you! Come to IceLab in cosy Umeå, put your #quantitative modeling & simulation skills to use disentangling how microbial communities evolve with Eric Libby, Peter Lind & Bjo:rn Schro:der on a truly #multidisciplinary project.

New paper out in eLife - the journal today, led by grad student Thomas Day and Yunker Lab, in collaboration with Ray Goldstein, Stephanie Hohn, and a number of others from our three groups. elifesciences.org/articles/72707

Postdoc fellowships in life science at Umeå University, Sweden. 20 different projects! Eric Libby and I are looking for a postdoc to model the dynamics of horizontal gene transfer in microbes to understand its impact on cell decision making: umu.se/en/ucmr/ec-pos…

What prevents multicellular organisms from evolving back to their ancestral state of unicellularity? In a new preprint, Peter Conlin, Heather Goldsby and colleagues show how division of labor can lead to the entrenchment of multicellularity. 🧵(1/14) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25 Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9

This is a really cool project and Peter is great to work with! Definitely apply!

New preprint up, showing how snowflake yeast overcome one of the greatest limitations on the evolution of multicellularity: diffusion. They do so by leveraging emergent biophysics to rapidly flow media through their bodies, like a sea sponge. 1/28

Competition and cooperation: The plasticity of bacteria interactions across environments biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio