In the last #SMEE talks we heard about bacterial kill curves from Malte Mütter and phage diversity from Dorentina Humolli

Thrilled to finally share! The plant microbiota triggers dose-dependent immune responses that feed back to influence bacterial colonization. This affects non-pathogenic and pathogenic strains, impacting microbiota homeostasis. Out today in Nature Plants: doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

🚨New preprint!! How do antibiotic-resistant bacteria grow in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🤔 We reveal strain-specific ecological interactions that shape their growth within microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What is the right balance of stability and adventure that makes one happy?

imo this is one of the most exciting lines of immunology research in recent years

soooo why are proofs cultural objects? here's a quick thread 🧵

The Crowther Lab is a talented team of kind humans. Thank you, Tom, for creating such an inspiring and supportive environment where we could collaborate on meaningful science and dream big! It has been an honor to be a part of this incredible team!

My prior post below re China x US biotech has caught the attention of a few of you Why am I well positioned to comment on the situation? A short backstory: In 2021 I co-founded precision oncology biotech, @melioratx, based in Boston and SF. We work on covalent allosteric

(1/N) LLMs represent numbers on a helix? And use trigonometry to do addition? Answers below 🧵

New article by me! I explore the baby boom in 7 charts, including some trends you (probably) didn't know: 1. Birth rates began to rise in the 1930s, before World War II

We kicked off this semester's #SMEE with two great talks by Anish Kirtane and Enea Maffei. D-USYS@ETH

These are the coolest datasets I’ve come across recently. It’s long been known that large animals (like elephants) have lower-than-expected cancer rates (just based on the fact they have many more cells than other animals), while some snake species have unexpectedly high cancer

🚨 Seminar at ETH this Thursday! 🚨 Join Dr. Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán (Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán) for a talk on how plasmids shape antibiotic resistance. Plasmid evolution: a (copy) numbers game 🗓 April 3rd | 🕙 10:00–11:00 📍 CHN F42, ETH Zurich evodynamicslab.com

New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

There are so many weird Biology quirks that I somehow missed before and am only just finding now... Apparently translation can and *does* initiate from EVERY codon With the caveat that any codon other than the canonical AUG / GUG / UUG options induce transcription at such

A big congratulations to srijan seal and Dipendra. Their manuscript, "Pathogen growth and virulence dynamics drive host evolution against coinfections," is now accepted in @PNAS. Thanks to DBT/WT India Alliance Trivedi School of BioSciences, Ashoka University Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS) SSE SERB pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"One concept that creates misunderstanding is 'scientific consensus.' It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what it really means," argues H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4jH2M9C