Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment (now out, but previously posted here as a preprint) with Ville Mustonen, Lutz Becks @jcairns.bsky.social & others. Experiment continues @utu.fi and now 5+ years www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment | PNAS

Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality, yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain p...

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Check out our pre-print led by the fantastic Massimo Amicone, collaborating with the Bollenbach lab! tinyurl.com/4h9p8mfb We build a simple intuition on how ecological interactions affect resistance evolution by expanding evolutionary rescue theory and testing it with two large sets of experiments

🚨New preprint from the lab!🚨 Check @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social 's thread on our latest study looking at bacterial diversity and strain dynamics in the early-life respiratory microbiome 🫁🧫🧬👶 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... cc @bakerresearchau.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

Camila Gazolla Volpiano, PhD@gazollavolpiano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint! The first first-author work of my postdoc at the Baker! So, babies' airways are colonised from birth, and our group has shown that early colonisers shape respiratory health. 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Across the first year, babies' airways shift from a Staphylococcus aureus–dominated state to a Moraxella catarrhalis–enriched one by 12 months. S. aureus likely comes from mum, M. catarrhalis expands as infants meet more people. Dynamics differ by strain. 4/7

The version of record of our revised preprint is finally out today. In it, we introduce a fast and reliable methdology for the full factorial design of microbial communities, i.e. constructing every monoculture, pair, trio, four-member,... n-member co-culture of N strains. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.

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We didn't want anyone to miss out, so we've extended the deadline for abstract submission to MEEHubs2026 until this Sunday (April 26). ✨ Please submit and please re-share! meehubs.org

Interested in predicting the dynamics of antibiotic resistance? Come work with us! We're looking for two postdocs to develop predictive models of resistance. We're interested in a range of approaches (mathematical & statistical modelling, causal inference, machine learning). tinyurl.com/6c4y3jke

Excited to share our new paper out today in @science.org 🎉 We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae 🤩 Below a 🧵 on key findings incl. background on natural competence in V. cholerae 1/ #microsky #phagesky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

All I want for the editorial manager is for them to use a single, consistent password across all the journals based on my OCRID instead of having to create a new account every single time. My password manager cant keep the journal straight and neither can I.

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Inhibition of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by commensal bacterial species from the human nose https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708567v1

Excited to announce my upcoming @snsf.ch Ambizione research group at EPFL on bacteria-host interactions, combining systems approaches and microphysiological models. 🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/ 🧪

Sharp followers will notice that it's been a long while I hadn't done this, but here is the latest personal reading list/summary for a few recent papers that I found relevant and interesting in the field of microbiome science, microbial ecology and others. mericlab.com/2026/02/05/n...

Noteworthy from the blue skies — end of 2025-Jan 2026

Well, despite being marginally more active on BlueSky, my last blog post summarizing the papers I come across has been almost a year ago now. Shocking news, I know. Since then, I’ve moved acr…

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How do interactions with resident nasal microbiota shape colonisation resistance to MRSA? Excited to share this preprint in collaboration with @mboum.bsky.social @anaellefait.bsky.social Silvio Brugger and Alex Hall. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Individual bacterial taxa drive colonisation resistance to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in human nasal microbiome samples

Identifying bacterial interactions that determine susceptibility of human microbiomes to colonisation by pathogenic bacteria has crucial implications for understanding health and disease and, conseque...

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I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Microbial Evolution:Oxford Road

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A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

10°C weather and non-stop rain is not what I expected on a trail run in late July, but turns out slipping and falling in the mud is actually quite fun

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology

The Department of Quantitative Biomedicine is an interdisciplinary biomedical research unit that combines basic science with biotechnological and medical research, using both experimental and computat...

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1/6 Excited to share our review 🚀 🧬 CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria! #MicroSky

Nature Reviews Bioengineering@natrevbioeng.nature.com · last yr.

ICYMI: CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria

Come work with us! We're looking of postdoc(s) with experience in bacterial genomics and interest in mathematical modelling to work on bacterial ecology and evolution in the context of public health. tinyurl.com/n34vzszu

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

The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019

Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...

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☎️ 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...

Interested in antibiotic cross-resistance/sensitivity? Tired of experimental evolution? Then check our new story led by brilliant @nazgulsakenova.bsky.social, now out on Nature Microbiology @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social !

Typas Lab@typaslab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share our study led by @SakenovaNazgul! We used chemical genetics to identify and understand cross-resistance & collateral-sensitivity (CS) between antibiotics and reduced AMR development with CS drug pairs @embl.org with @camille_goemans @EPFL_en www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Faizan Said @ Cardiff University to work on multispecies bacterial biofilms and metabolic cross-feeding interactions in the context of antimicrobial tolerance and resistance evolution. Deadline: 3.01.2025 Please RT More info: shorturl.at/md3A8

I have an open Postdoc position in Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zürich! The project is about the conservation of transcription factors functions between strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🧬🦠 More details and application at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please share!

Postdoctoral Position in Molecular Systems Biology

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🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. More info & link to apply below. Please spread the word!

In a great collaboration with @typaslab.bsky.social, @lisamaierlab.bsky.social and @biocs.bsky.social found that 24% of the tested human-targeted drugs inhibit the growth of gut commensal bacteria. "Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria" (2018) www.nature.com/artic...

Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria

Nature - Some non-antibiotic drugs have been associated with changes in gut microbiome composition, but the extent of this phenomenon is unknown. Athanasios Typas and colleagues screened more than...

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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS

Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

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