@massimoamicone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk on evolutionary rescue in simple microbial communities at MEEHubs 2026 @meehubs.bsky.social #meehubs2026

Very happy to share that the work I've been doing with @saramitri.bsky.social is now out on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We broadly ask how are microbial interactions distributed, is there a common shape across datasets, what drives it, and why it matters. Summary thread below 🧵 1/17

Metabolic processes shape microbial interaction distributions

Microbial communities are largely driven by metabolic interactions, whereby species compete for shared resources and exchange byproducts. Such interactions are commonly classified by their sign alone....

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🎉 Félicitations aux professeures 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗶 @saramitri.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social et 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 au Département d’écologie et évolution @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social qui reçoivent chacune un ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu 👉 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1781...

Deux ERC Advanced Grants pour la FBM

Les professeures Sara Mitri, au Département de microbiologie fondamentale, et Tanja Schwander, au Département d’écologie et évolution de l’Unil, reçoivent chacune un ERC Advanced Grant de l’European R...

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From a Workshop to a Perspective piece (on modelling AMR within microbiomes 🦠), glad to have been part of this! Big thanks to Lisa Pagani and @rleonsampedro.bsky.social for carrying it through, and to the Collegium Helveticum for hosting the kickoff meeting 👋

Ricardo León-Sampedro@rleonsampedro.bsky.social · last mo.

New Perspective out co-led with Lisa Pagani! We look at how microbiome ecology and evolution shape AMR across scales, from within-host communities to hospitals and environments, and how mathematical models can help us understand them. @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was a great pleasure to be a part of this and I learnt so much during the process as well! Check it out when you get some time and thanks to all the co-authors for great work! 🙌

Oliver Meacock@olimeacock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme... We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field

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

1 week left to apply for scholarships ! If you are based at an institution in an ODA recipient country (e.g. Brazil, South Africa, India, Mexico; full list: tinyurl.com/5dv7vvs8), you can get all expenses covered to attend the summer school in Lausanne for a week.

Charles Mullon@charlesmullon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

The first preprint on chemostats from our lab! What a ride it's been with Eric Ulrich doi.org/10.64898/202... Congratulations on what was a challenging project that taught us so much about cross-feeding, chemostat theory and how minimal media are impossible to keep minimal ;) Enjoy the read!

Happy to finally share these results: Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa #microsky

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

Interested in synthetic biology & microbiomes? 🧬🧫 We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbe–microbe & microbe–host interactions. In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland🏔️⛵ @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social Apply by 24.05.2026 👇 shorturl.at/6X7M4 Boosts appreciated!

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

A personal honor to have the work of myself and my collaborators covered in Il Piccolo, the Trieste newspaper that published James Joyce when he lived here.

Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Do you have an interest in quantitative microbiology and interdisciplinary research? I'm recruiting a UK PhD student to develop high-throughput ecological screens to help us understand how chemical inputs impact microbial ecosystems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Identifying how chemicals shape microbial diversity through high-throughput ecological screens at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Identifying how chemicals shape microbial diversity through high-throughput ecological screens at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Do you think transporters in E. coli contribute to metabolite release? No? Explore the effect of 66 different transporter knockout mutations on the exometabolome dynamics of ~300 metabolites yourself: keio.unil.ch Teaser: Increased proline in ΔputP #microsky #MEvoSky

New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

I am excited to announce two PhD opportunities! Come and join our interdisciplinary team in Sheffield, UK. - Destroying forever chemicals with microbes and cold plasma: tinyurl.com/mth8ymx5 - Learning how motile bacteria make decisions: tinyurl.com/2hmc9a8u UK and overseas students welcome to apply!

ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - Harnessing microbes and cold plasma to concentrate and destroy ‘forever chemicals’ in food associated ecosystems at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - Harnessing microbes and cold plasma to concentrate and destroy ‘forever chemicals’ in food associated ecosystems at University of Sheffield, listed on Find...

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I'm delighted to announce that the Interdisciplinary Challenges (IntCha) meeting is returning in April 2026! Abstract submission is now open. We encourage young scientists working at the interface between biology and physics to join us at the IESC in Corsica. Website here: intcha26.sciencesconf.org

Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates

Microbes release a wide range of metabolites into their environment, yet the reasons for this release and the factors that influence release rates are not well understood. Here, using a combination of...

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Three postdoctoral positions open (almost equally longitudinally spaced: one at @yale.edu with @martinadalbello.bsky.social , one at ELSI Tokyo with Shawn McGlynn, one with myself at ICTP in Trieste) to work collaboratively on www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project funded by @hfspo.bsky.social

Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Check out our recent paper just out in Physical Review E! journals.aps.org/pre/abstract... with Alice Doimo, @giorgionicoletti.bsky.social, Davide Bernardi We look into stochasticity arising from finite carrying capacity in classical metapopulation models to understand survival statistics.

Excellent opportunity for Palestinian 🇵🇸 students looking to pursue Bachelor/Master degrees - 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities - Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance - €12,000/year average scholarship Inquiry deadline is May 23 Links below, please circulate widely!

3 nights, 3 venues, 2 languages, 27 (!) speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in LAUSANNE. 📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/lausanne Free entry 🧠 just come quench your thirst for knowledge! @pintsworld.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social #pint25 #pintCH

Great to see this out! 🎉 Big congratulations to @type3lab.bsky.social for leading the project and to all involved! "Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and T3SS spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection" 🌱🦠 rdcu.be/egczU 🧵⬇️ #MicroSky #PlantScience

Beuzón & Ruiz-Albert Lab@type3lab.bsky.social · last yr.

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

Better late than never: it's time to tell you about my main project at EPFL 🇨🇭! What happens in competitive metacommunities when you take into account spatial structure and habitat heterogeneity? Once more, a great collaboration with @lambdapp and the people at @liphlab! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities | PNAS

Metapopulation models have been instrumental in quantifying the ecological impact of landscape structure on the survival of a focal species. Howeve...

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There is still time to apply to the Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! The deadline has been extended till March 16th. We would especially welcome applications from members of underrepresented groups. Limited travel grants are available. Apply now and join us! almadalcoschool.github.io

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Simon van Vliet@simonvanvliet.bsky.social · last yr.

Only 3 weeks left to apply to the first Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! We have a great line-up of speakers and a program designed to maximize interactions between and among speakers and participants. Applications open to all ECRs (PhD - young PIs). More info: almadalcoschool.github.io

Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities

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