Fun review from my group with Georgia Drew Em Stevens on evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum: nature.com/articles/s4157…

New paper from our lab, led by the brilliant Sylvie Estrela and equally talented Jean Vila and Alicia SanchezGorostiaga. We find regularities in how different nutrients interact to shape the assembly of microbial communities elifesciences.org/articles/65948

Another #PhD position to examine #adaptation of the #freshwater #snail Lymnaea stagnalis to #climatechange is open at Universität Innsbruck @[email protected] evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir…

Ursula Gaedke will give a seminar talk and speak about “The role of trait distributions, trade-offs and mutual trait adaptation for understanding observed and modelled plankton food webs”. If interested sign up here: uibk.ac.at/limno/seminars/

Still some time to apply for this #PhD position on #heatwave #adaptation Universität Innsbruck @[email protected]. Evaluation of the candidates starts May 17 evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir…

I am excited to announce two in person workshop meetings for Summer 2022. The workshops are organised by Tanush Jagdish, Fatima Aysha Hussain, Alita Burmeister, Andrew Farr, Clara Moreno and me with the invaluable help of RaineyLab. Please RT 😃 and apply in here workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/43/

So as part of our ManMetMicro lab team building exercise, one of my PhD students thought this would be fun - I agreed, we're now in a team! Donate to my/our #RaceforLife and together we will beat cancer fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/damians-r…

Happy to see this out. Hope this is useful for those who use microbes and experiments to study ecological and evolutionary questions. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8…

New paper out now in Ecology and Evolution 📰 by Dr Thomas Scheuerl of our Ecosystems and Global Change Group 🌍 The effect of dilution on eco-evolutionary dynamics of experimental microbial communities 📈 Read paper 👉bit.ly/3l8wTKD

This is shocking, and should be considered seriously by anyone in a supervisory role. At this time of year, students are signing all kinds of safety forms to protect their physical health — from GMOs, phenol, back pain... Mental health needs to be part of that conversation too.

Cool! "Plasmid fitness costs caused by specific genetic conflicts are unlikely to act as a long-term barrier to horizontal gene transfer due to their propensity for amelioration by single compensatory mutations, helping to explain why plasmids are so common in bacterial genomes"

Very pleased to see this finally out! cell.com/cell-systems/f… We study convergence and divergence in microbial community assembly in replicate habitats. Work with the marvellous Alvaro Sanchez Lab team Jean Vila @mrebolleda Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐 Alicia SanchezGorostiaga N. Lu & Josh Goldford

Sarah in our Ecosystems and Global Change Group has been working hard on the first major experiment of her #PhD 👩‍🔬 which will tell us how bacterial communities use different carbon compounds isolated from the natural environment 🦠 The #carboncycle is changing, are #microbes adapting?

I often think of the Amos Tversky quote “The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” & how much effort academics have to put into showing how “busy” they are. No CV has a section for “thinking time”.

Very excited to have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Clear-Water, to study eco-evolution of complex bacterial communities. Thanks Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for funding and thanks to my colleagues Ecosystems and Global Change Group & Otto Seppälä and collaborators Alvaro Sanchez Lab.

New preprint from 1st-author Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐. We find that coexisting members of stable bacterial communities generally fail to coexist in pairwise co-culture, highlighting the importance of the ecological context provided by additional community members biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

4 attempts for the Marie-Curie and finally successful this March; today this: Dear Madam/Sir, The Grant Agreement preparation of your proposal for the above project has been terminated. The proposal is now rejected.😵‍💫😡

I am pleased to announce that Tim Barraclough from the University of Oxford is going to give us a talk next Wednesday, the 9nd of November at 2 pm CET, in our Mondsee seminar series. If you are interested, get in touch with me: [email protected]

We will have Kayla King from Oxford next Wednesday in our Seminar series giving us a talk. If interested email me ([email protected]) and I will share the zoom link.

Looking forward to read this. nature.com/articles/s4156…