Aaron Comeault
@aaronc-research.bsky.social
Adaptation | Evolution | Genomics 🐌 - 🪰 - 🐸 - 🦠 Lecturer in the Molecular Ecology and Evolution group, Bangor University, North Wales. Lab website: https://comeaultlab.wordpress.com/ + photography and being in mountains. 🇨🇦🏴 He/Him
📢Thinking about a postgraduate research degree or know of some good undergraduate students? Exciting opportunities to come!!
Alex Georgiev@alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social · 2w agoSome big news to share! @rhythmsoflife.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
The classroom these last weeks for our class: Rapid Evolution in the Anthropocene. Held at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, BC. @bamfieldmsc.bsky.social @biomcgill.bsky.social Undergrads - put it in your calendar for next summer!
📢 postdoc opportunity as part of a supportive, international, and interdisciplinary team working to understand how 🦠 🐸 interactions affect disease outcomes. Come work with us!
Owen Osborne@owengosborne.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin me, @aaronc-research.bsky.social and @amyellison.bsky.social at @meebangor.bsky.social to explore how species-specific skin microbiomes shape variation in amphibian responses to chytrid. Looking for experience in microbial ecology / host–microbe interactions / metagenomics / bioinformatics.
👀 for postdoc? Come work with my colleague on an exciting project at the intersection of ecological genetics, invasion biology, and plant-insect interactions 🐛 🧬 ☘️ (not on clover, but plant emojis are limited)
Benjamin Jarrett@bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
I'll be reviewing applications for this in a few days, so there's still time to get touch if you're interested.
Sam Yeaman@samyeaman.bsky.social · 12mo agoI'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
Happy to announce that our „newest old tool“ autoMLST2.0 is out and published. You need an accurate and easy to use tool to build #phylogenetictrees from #bacterialgenomes: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
AutoMLST2: a web server for phylogeny and microbial taxonomy
Abstract. Accurate and accessible phylogenetic analysis is essential for understanding microbial taxonomy and evolution, which are integral to microbiology
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I've written a Substack about the #ColossalBioSci #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign; it's focused on polluting the information landscape, rather than the underlying science (except for species concepts, I talk about them) open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...
The Extinction of Truth
Or, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit
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This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
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We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
Michael Brockhurst@brockhurstlab.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Very excited to see this out from @metallophyte.bsky.social's lab looking at plasticity and adaptation to environmental stressors! Led by @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social student Sarah Coates!
Alex Papadopulos@metallophyte.bsky.social · last yr.Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org
Looking to build your CV by doing a Masters project? Lots available at Bangor University in zoology-related fields and more:
PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni)@bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · 2y agoToday we are releasing 64 (!) adverts for Masters by Research projects at the College of Science & Engineering. All are self-funded. Spanning 18 themes/disciplines this is the richest offering we’ve had in years. Check out the projects now and get in touch: tinyurl.com/4bw29ucv
Come to the UK to do your best 🧪! We’re not that bad by some comparisons 😊
The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 2y agoThe Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships will open for applications next week on 21 January. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more on our website: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
🚨 We are recruiting a #PhD student for a #NERC RedAlert CDT funded project using microbiological and genomic approaches to track #AMR 🦠 in riverine ecosystems in #NorthWales 🌈 - closing date 7th Jan, full details here: tinyurl.com/5wstuwxu Please share! @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social
Come work with us on #eDNA and salmonid pathogens! 🐟🦠 Please share:
Si Creer@profsicreer.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are recruiting for #PhD opportunity funded by NERC RedAlert CDT investigating novel ways to identify #salmonid diseases in #freshwater ecosystems using #eDNA - closing date 7th Jan, full details here: findaphd.com?pj=176410 @thefsbi.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social @nerc-eof.bsky.social
As I have a few followers now I figure I could post about some recent papers: @henrylnorth.bsky.social analysed sequence data from @theswordlab.bsky.social for North American Helicoverpa zea - we found just two individuals from 400 with introgressed armigera allele for insecticide resistance
Rapid Adaptation and Interspecific Introgression in the North American Crop Pest Helicoverpa zea
Abstract. Insect crop pests threaten global food security. This threat is amplified through the spread of nonnative species and through adaptation of nativ
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👀 V. cool tour de force paper disentangling the genetic basis of gut colonization in a symbiotic 🦠 of the fruit fly gut - genetics + genomics + experimental evolution + comparative genomics + transgenics + imaging. Wow! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity
Animals selectively acquire specific symbiotic gut bacteria from their environments that aid host fitness. To colonize, a symbiont must locate its niche and sustain growth within the gut. Adhesins are...
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Happy #frogfriday - I give you the spectacular Chihuahuan green toad. Found out on the road after some rain in southeast Arizona.
I am loving the @evolletters.bsky.social cover by G. Moggioli. This issue has 3 articles about the Darwin-Bateman paradigm. Lehtonen & Parker doi.org/10.1093/evle... provide theory, w/ comments by @timjanicke.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... and Mokos et al. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
#drosphila blueskyers, can anyone help ID new fly line in the lab? I think virilis, but unsure. Males with double sex combs. Collected in North Wales. @darrenobbard.bsky.social
Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪
Looking for a #postdoc? Interested in #evolution, #mutations, adaptation? Have #bioinformatics skills? Come join us on our beautiful campus @NCBS_Bangalore!
We have a postdoc position available in the lab on post-copulatory barriers in hybridizing crickets. We have genomic data ready to be analyzed and crickets ready for experiments. This is a great collaborative group and a study system with a lot of potential for new projects. Join us!
👀 Enjoyed this perspective on the evolution of human commensalism! We need to quantify the degree to which species have evolved/adapted to anthropo environs and clearly define those environs. Plus I learned a neat new word: "synurbic". #drosophila would be great models for some of this!
Mark Ravinet@markravinet.bsky.social · 2y agoReally glad to be able to say that former MSc student and now superstar PhD student Ruth Fawthrop has her first paper out in TREE - an evolutionary framework for studying human-commensalism. With @melissahrowe.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social and others! bit.ly/3Z8nCYd
Created a starter pack! This one highlighting the exciting folks working at Bangor University in the biological, environmental, and/or natural sciences. I'm missing lots of people: let me know and I'll add you! go.bsky.app/Kxz2RCt
Do you like #Drosophila ? Do you like #sequences ? Then here's a treat for you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Footprints of worldwide adaptation in structured populations of D. melanogaster through the expanded DEST 2.0 genomic resource
Large scale genomic resources can place genetic variation into an ecologically informed context. To advance our understanding of the population genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster , we p...
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