NEW PREPRINT! We have a new MR method called MR-link-2, which we validated extensively. Interested in Mendelian randomization? A🪡 below medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to announce it has now been published in Access Microbiology Microbiology Society, big congrats to Julien Dénéréaz! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Looking forward to join the FIMM as a group leader! Will have open positions for PhD students and postdocs, get in touch if interested!

Our new work on (1) mapping genetic interactions in E. coli with titratable CRISPRi and then (2) using these data to build predictive gene expression -> growth rate models is out now in Cell Systems! doi.org/10.1016/j.cels… Congrats to UTSW_CMB student and lead author Ryan Otto!

Now online Cell Host & Microbe! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ig8V6t8JEqn…

Delighted to share our paper "Assessing the impact of post‑mortem damage and contamination on imputation performance in ancient DNA" supervised by Barbara now out in Scientific Reports! Simone Rubinacci Olivier Delaneau AnnaSapfo Malaspinas Dept of Computational Biology, Uni Lausanne SIB ➡️More details here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

⚠️One week left to apply for our 3 open positions! If you are a #SynBio lover, you should consider joining us! 😉 👇🏼

Wonderful colab and project!

After months of procrastination, I am starting Batch Effect! It's a newsletter on the latest Cancer Research under the lens of Computational Biology and Spatial Omics. In this first post, I shared why I chose this name. Subscribe, it's free! batcheffect.com/p/welcome-to-b…

This is a game changer for how we do genetics in our lab! Fantastic effort by Monica, MV Mazzuoli Axel Janssen Anne-Stephanie & xue liu 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please join us in congratulating Bárbara Sousa da Mota for winning one of 2024’s prestigious SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Awards for her excellent talk "Investigating the ecological suicide (“ecocide”) theory in Rapa Nui with ancient DNA data" #SMBE2024 SMBEmeetings

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

PneumoBrowse 2 is freely available on pneumobrowse2.veeninglab.com. Many thanks to the entire lab for keeping track of updates and literature and specifically Axel Janssen Paddy Gibson Afombravo Vincent de Bakker Jelle Slager for putting it all together and Doran for IT support!

Genome-wide dual CRISPRi-seq! Knocking down every gene with every other gene in the pneumococcus, identifying > 4000 genetic interactions (GIs), most of which have never been reported. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Had a blast at GRC Streptococcal Biology, grateful for new friends made, and honored to go home with a short talk award! Time to fight the jet lag.

Genome analysis adds to mounting evidence against the idea that Rapa Nui’s population collapsed owing to overexploitation of natural resources go.nature.com/3AYW5yR

Amazing work!

Out with a blast. Leaving Lausanne today after more than five beautiful years that shaped me considerably, on both a professional and personal level. Looking ahead with excitement, but I will miss the wonderful people that made this place a true home. Au revoir!

📢A new PhD student position in Bacterial Genetics is now open in my team DMF UNIL in beautiful Lausanne/Switzerland 🇨🇭 More information on that position and on the application procedure can be found here: tinyurl.com/3m35nr54 Please RT.

Very excited to announce our symposium at DMF UNIL co-organized with Andrea Vettiger on the bacterial cell across scales. Looking forward to seeing you all there, amazing speaker line up! Please, share!