New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)

Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature

Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia

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This paper has been a long time in the making. Started during my Ph.D., @chloehbk.bsky.social and @stelkens.bsky.social picked it up and finished it. Huge thank you to all my co-authors! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature

Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia

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Sad to hear that the Solar Impulse 2 crashed. We had the opportunity to see it in a hanger during its tour around the world.

Join us! @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position using experimental evolution to understand real-world resistance dynamics. See preprint for the 🤯 strain collection we will be working with www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Closing 15 May. Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #mevosky

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Happy to see this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social! We combined experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to ask: can bacteria evolve to swim away from their viral parasites? 1/n #evosky 🦠 #phage 🧪 (gift link:) www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TETM9...

The hidden cost of aggregation lies in the incompatibilities between cells with different genetic dialects doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @jahanisrat.bsky.social, @treyjscott.bsky.social, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social, and David C Queller

Are you interested in research in evolutionary genetics & genomics 🧬 (but maybe not ready to apply to graduate school)? Come work with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Rice University, University of Houston, or Texas A&M! Apply to our #NSF funded post-bacc research program! (Please share!)

STEGG-INTERACT@stegg-interact.bsky.social · 2y ago

The STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates program is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 cohort! Application deadline is March 1, 2025. Program runs June 2025 - May 2026 at University of Houston, Rice University, and Texas A&M.

Hello new phage phollowers! I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition" www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition

The ubiquity of bacteriophages (phages) and the major evolutionary and ecological impacts they can have on their microbial hosts has resulted in phages often cited as key drivers shaping microbial com...

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We have new yeasty pre-print out led by star postdoc Jennifer Molinet. This paper has it all: wild yeast from Patagonia, experimental evolution, whole genomes, de novo mutations, gene expression, CRISPR, and of course, beer!🍻🧪

Wild Patagonian yeast improve the evolutionary potential of novel interspecific hybrid strains for L...

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