4) We are also welcoming a new graduate student to the group, Owen Hale (Owen Hale)! Owen’s interests are metagenomics, evolution, and the microbiome. So stay tuned for great things from him!

So happy to finally make a thorough post about our new study with Wei-Chin Ho, Complex Ecotype Dynamics Evolve in Response to Fluctuating Resources in mBio! (1/n) doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…

So proud of Carl Stone! Did an amazing job at his quals today and is now a PhD candidate!!! Big day for the Behringer lab, our first grad student is now our first candidate! More good things to come! VU Graduate School Vanderbilt University ASM @VandyBioGrad

I am so proud to have the first major report of our #rUTI #metagenomics studies of the postmenopausal #urobiome published today in Cell Reports Medicine #OpenAccess. Here's a quick summary of what we found in this NIDDK and The Welch Foundation funded study. 1/7 cell.com/cell-reports-m…

New paper alert! @AReddiLab and colleagues describe differential use of exogenous and endogenous heme by M. tuberculosis in this offering. journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.112…

New #preprint from our lab! Here, PhD student Carl Stone has developed an R package (CoMMA) to annotate and identify differential 6mA methylation in microbes from Nanopore data. With CoMMA he observes relaxed selection on 6mA in Exp. evolved E.coli clones without mismatch repair.

Happy to share that a preprint is up for my 1st 1st-author publication! I wrote an R package for analyzing 6mA methylation in bacteria with Nanopore data. 6mA is dynamic! Less methylation around promoters, breakdown in 6mA over time w/o MMR. All the hits inside the paper!

👇Check out our most recent paper!

Great day at the @VI4Research Symposium. Oven Hale (Owen Hale), a Ph. D. Student in our lab, got to share his research conducting mutation studies in Lactic Acid Bacteria.

August is already off to a strong start for the lab! Great presentations by postdoc Sarah B Worthan and Ph.D student Owen Hale at their respective GRCs! 🙌 Awesome poster by summer undergrad Briana Harness! 👏🧫🩺 Now, a ESI-MIRA NOA to start the fall semester!! 💪🥳🥳

Good Morning! I’m excited to share our study in #mbio led by PhD candidate Carl Stone investigating 6mA evolution in E. coli! 🥳🧫🧬 Carl developed an R package (CoMMA) for differential methylation analysis of 6mA, so you can analyze differential 6mA too! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Honored that our work was awarded the Zuckerkandl Prize by Journal of Molecular Evolution. This was a terrific effort by Postdoc Sarah B Worthan and former undergraduate Robby McCarthy! A must read for anyone who performs lab cell culture, is interested in plasticity, or collects fitness measurements!

Preprint Alert! 🚨🚨🚨 Exciting collaboration between my group, Marc Boudvillain’s group and Benjamin Bratton! From populations experimentally evolved to extreme feast/famine cycles, we find pH-sensing rho alleles that confer pH-dependent plasticity in transcription termination!

Hot off the presses! 📰📰 E. coli evolution in repeated 100-day Feast/Famine cycles is out in Current Biology! We see high mutational order, extreme parallelism (nucleotide level!), & early mutations can ⬆️ fitness simultaneously for growth & survival! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

The Behringer Lab at Vanderbilt is looking to hire a research assistant! A great position for trainees interested in microbiology, evolution, & genetics while gaining experience in anaerobic cell culture, experimental evolution, & genome editing. Details at quote tweet below! ⬇️

5 years ago I attended my 1st #ASMicrobe meeting in San Fran as a grad student poster presenter where I met my future post-doc advisor, Megan Behringer. Now, I’m back at #ASMicrobe in my home state and speaking in a great session! Come check out my talk! #fullcircle #growth #5yearplan

Behringer lab is on our way to Montreal with an exciting lineup of talks and posters for #Evol2024! We are also recruiting Postdocs who are interested in bacterial mutation rates, experimental evolution, transcriptional regulation, and/or adaptation to resource limitation!

#stachesofevolution24 Caught fan of the show Carl Stone between talks rocking some exquisite face foliage. If you're a fan of E. Coli be sure to catch his talk Monday at 1030 in 516B. Great work sir! #evolution2024 #Evol2024