See the new paper by Hanne Griem-Krey and @michaelhabig.bsky.social on hitchhiking on starships... fungi are weird!

Michael Habig@michaelhabig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now out! We show that TEs can be horizontally transferred between fungal species via Starships. Once transferred, these TEs can become active, changing the genome organization and affecting the lifestyle of the recipient fungus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oggenfussursula.bsky.social #TEsky

Tissues aren't static. They're evolving landscapes where mutant clones compete for dominance. Phylogenetics on somatic lineages, cross-species comparison across lifespans and steering clonal trajectories are exciting directions! @atjcagan.bsky.social's new comment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How somatic evolution affects health - Nature Ecology & Evolution

As somatic evolution becomes directly measurable, integrating eco-evolutionary principles with high-resolution molecular data creates opportunities to anticipate and prevent disease.

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@lillycummins.bsky.social's new paper talking about complex gene-to-gene interactions are what actually drive bacteria evolution and drug resistance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics

Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...

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@bramvandijk.bsky.social (and many other)'s new paper covered insights in microbial ecology, evolution and theoretical biology.

Simon van Vliet@simonvanvliet.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wrapping up a productive week: very glad to have contributed to this review on how spatial structure shapes microbial ecology and evolution, led by @marcelbaecker.bsky.social, @bedutilh.bsky.social, @bramvandijk.bsky.social and many others. doi.org/10.1093/fems...

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoyed the @phar.cam.ac.uk department final year talk last Friday. @psalmotoxin.bsky.social Smith Team delivered 5 talks from IBD & pain (Luke), joint pain (Helen and Monica), ageing (Cherry) to gut barrier functions (Anne). Wow 👏👏👏.

The new version of MetaPhlAn v4.2.2 released! 📌taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time 📌new version of the MetaPhlAn db (vJan25_202503) containing >21k new SGBs Try it out & @hutlab.bsky.social and we are looking forward to your feedback! forum.biobakery.org/t/metaphlan-...

MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 release (initial long-read sequencing support and database update)

Announcement We are pleased to share that MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 is now available, which incorporates taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time and includes a new version of the MetaPhl...

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Excited to have started my postdoc with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social, working on mole rat research! Got a really warm welcome from the team 😄🙌 Wrapped up the first week with some lab punting on Friday—strong start! (Mole rats weren't invited but we had a blast anyway 🛶)

Summary: Lavisha found an IS inserted next to a deletion, and I found an IS inserted between two duplication fragments. Interestingly, both have no target site duplications identified. It suggested 1) IS element inserted in the DNA break, or 2) the Del or Dup was mediated by the IS transposase.

Lavisha Parab@lavishaparab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our paper recently was published. It's about insertion sequences in relation to large scale DNA duplications and deletions. I'll try to write a summary soon but things are busy! Led by Jenna Gallie and Frederic Bertels. Guy and I learned a lot! Please share :D journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Delighted to contribute to this project and grateful that part of my PhD work builds upon the findings in this paper. As I near the completion of my PhD journey, stay tuned for the updates and sharing of my research. 🙌

Sungbin Lim@sungbin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glad to share our work with Dr. Jenna Gallie's group! The study reports on the mechanism of how the tRNA gene repertoire can become flexible within a population level, which was originally considered to be much more stable. Great job, @guyngan.bsky.social ! #MicroSky #EvoSky