@massimoamicone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk on evolutionary rescue in simple microbial communities at MEEHubs 2026 @meehubs.bsky.social #meehubs2026
Sara Mitri
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Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Hybrid conferences rock! I'm attending @meehubs.bsky.social from my office, as I couldn't free up enough time to travel. Such a cool model - live talks in seven geographically disparate hubs, all networked and available online.
THE new lab to follow ! Amazing science with an amazing person, seems like a unique opportunity 🤩
Osterman Ilya@ostermanilya.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Beautiful new pre-print by @lambdapp.bsky.social! Rather than asking whether microbial interactions are mainly positive or negative, Prajwal asks: how strong or weak are they and why? The answer: not Gaussian, but skewed. This is similar to larger organisms, but not for the same reason. Read it!
Prajwal Padmanabha@lambdapp.bsky.social · 3w agoVery 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
Interested in coming to Berlin on a Humboldt Fellowship? Please consider the new modalities: There are 3 calls for applications annually, each opening 8 months before the respective selection meeting. The new call opens on 15 July 2026, closing once 800 applications are in.
🚨The program for MEEHubs2026 is now online, as is more detailed information about the hubs! Check it out at meehubs.org and register‼️ Less than a month before the conference kicks off! 🦠
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We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here: www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-... Please spread the word!
Lab Manager - Molecular Immunology - Dunn School
Laboratory Manager/Senior Scientist position in the Molecular Mucosal Immunology group at Oxford
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New preprint from our lab Statistical learning of bacterial growth in combinatorially constructed environments, led by brilliant PhD student Andrea Arrabal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We systematically study nutrient-nutrient interactions in bacterial growth under carbon-limiting conditions.
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Open postdoc position in my lab on HGT and interbacterial competition. We seek candidates with a PhD in microbiology (or related fields)+ strong 1st-author publications. Curious, highly motivated, and dedicated team players ready to contribute fully are encouraged to apply. Details: tiny.cc/cz01101
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The first articles for the new society-owned journal Population Biology Modeling & Theory are underway! We're accepting research articles and beyond - get in touch with us to discuss your ideas for submissions. pbmt.journals.sup.org/index.php/pbmt
Eye-opening work by @olimeacock.bsky.social (former postdoc, now PI in Sheffield). He presents an exact mapping from steady-state consumer-resource to generalized Lotka-Volterra models, revealing that cross-feeding can lead to competition for other limiting resources. Feedback pls!
Oliver Meacock@olimeacock.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew preprint from @saramitri.bsky.social and me: tinyurl.com/3dsjnm4d The headline result - we derive a general way to connect mechanistic ecosystem models to the gLV equation. This reveals that strengthening cooperative mechanisms can make effective gLV interactions increasingly competitive. Weird!
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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Are you excited about understanding the molecular underpinnings of arbuscular mycorrhiza? Then this PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/4...
Postdoc (m/f/d) position on molecular mechanisms of nutrient exchange in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
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"A project by ECRs for ECRs" to quote @olimeacock.bsky.social This review of ideas in classical ecology to compile a "field guide" for microbial ecologists is the result of a year-long journal club across several labs in Switzerland. Beautiful process, beautiful outcome! Congratulations all authors!
Prajwal Padmanabha@lambdapp.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt 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! 🙌
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
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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!
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Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles? @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by @wenyugu.bsky.social (EPFL), Xiang-Yi Li Richter, and Dave Johnson at @eawag.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles?
Microbial interactions hold vast potential for improving sustainability, including waste upcycling, greenhouse gas mitigation, contaminant bioremediation, and host performance. However, attempts to ma...
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Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫
Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Great supervisor, great project, great place!
Clara Torres-Barceló@clara-inrae.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨 We’re looking for a PhD student to join @phimresearch.bsky.social and explore phages in emerging rice epidemics 🌾 We will investigate phage–bacteria interactions and the seed microbiome/phageome. #phd #phage #plantscience #microbiome #scijobs 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/yhc2fa7
We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
We have a PhD studentship available to develop genome safeguarding technologies for synthetic phage therapeutics www.findaphd.com/phds/project... It is part of an exciting new @officialuom.bsky.social PhD by Enterprise programme www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...
(PhD by Enterprise) Genome safeguarding technologies for synthetic phage therapeutics against multidrug resistant bacterial infections at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (PhD by Enterprise) Genome safeguarding technologies for synthetic phage therapeutics against multidrug resistant bacterial infections at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD...
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And Margaret Vogel revealed an unexpected diversity of Thiodiazotropha symbionts in lucinid clams. Seagrasses at the same site hosted Thiodiazotropha too, but they were mostly distinct strains on/in each host! Out in ISMEJ @isme-microbes.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n73yh44
Symbiont diversity within Loripes orbiculatus and the case for multiple hosts
Abstract. Seagrasses support immense biodiversity and are critical for maintaining coastal ecosystem health. These foundation species benefit from a ‘three
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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
Interested in a *staff computational scientist* position? We are looking for an experienced computational biologist (ideally with microbiology experience) to support published packages while also driving new research. Pay range $73k-$111k w excellent benefits. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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MIT - Computational Biology Program Scientist - Cambridge MA 02139
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Check out Snorre's latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I love this story: our 4-species synthetic bacterial community coexists across many simple environments and conditions. We show why (spoiler in the title)
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Snorre Sulheim@sulheim.bsky.social · 4mo agoHappy 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
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MEEhubs@meehubs.bsky.social · 5mo agoMEEHubs2026 registration and abstract submission is now online! 🚨🦠✨ Join us Aug 3 - 5, 2026 at one of the 7 hubs or online. We are incredibly excited about our lineup of speakers, and hope that you submit an abstract to contribute too! More information and registration links at: meehubs.org
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!
Career Opportunities: PhD position in microbial synthetic biology (22753)
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It looks like there will be an open postdoc position in my lab soon. I'll be looking for someone with substantial wet-lab experience in microbiology / microbial ecology / evolution / physiology. If everything goes well, an ad will be coming. But if you know someone, ask them to reach out already.
