Kevin Wood

Happy new year everyone! Before moving into the new year, I wanted to look back at our group’s science in 2023. This year, we published/preprinted 12 research papers, a hypothesis paper, and two commentaries.

📣 I'm recruiting a Research Technician to work on projects involving experimental evolution of antimicrobial resistance in Manchester. To start ASAP with an end date in mid 2026.

Apply by 13 Dec. Please RT!

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

In our ongoing efforts to understand Enterococcal pathogenesis in wound infections, we teamed up with the Thibault Lab @NTU in Singapore to dissect the host response at single cell resolution. New insights into immune modulation, keratinocyte transition, and more!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First Post on Bluesky
#Evolution #Biology
#ExperimentalEvolution #LTEE
#Microbes #Bacteria #Viruses
#Science #Microbiology #ScienceCommunication
#ScienceEducation #DEI #ScienceHistory #PhilosophyOfScience
Lots of other stuff, too.

Pitt's Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine updated its website with news and announcements about:
-recent pubs
-shiny awards
-Catalyst grants to trainees
-our super seminar series!

Check it out: www.cebam.pitt.edu/news-events/

🚨My department is HIRING🚨
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine invites applicants for tenure-track microbiology faculty at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Our scope is broad, we seek creative colleagues! More info: tinyurl.com/PittMMG-Jobs

I’m Gina Baucom (UMich EEB) and I am recruiting grad students for next fall! My lab studies rapid adaptation to environmental change in plants, often due to human-mediated selection from herbicides, but also including climate change and etc.
Recent pubs: baucomlab.wordpress.com/publications/

Yeah, that was my hunch…

It’s really none of my, eh, business. :)

Rayleigh–Bénard convection - Wikipedia

Maybe R-B convection cells? (I’m not an expert in beeswax or R-B patterns but that’s my naive guess)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleig...

Research Specialist A - Raj Lab - Penn Engineering University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

Our lab is looking for lab technicians and a lab manager! Come join our fun, dynamic team to work on cellular plasticity, learning, spatial transcriptomics, and more!
Lab tech:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
Lab manager:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

I'll be co-organizing a Focus Session on Evolutionary Dynamics with James Boedicker and BingKan Xue at APS March Meeting 2024. Abstract submissions are open through October 20 so consider submitting! Theoretical and experimental research both welcome!

Need a short introductory primer to bacterial quorum sensing? We wrote one so you don't have to www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

OpgH is an essential regulator of Caulobacter morphology bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Posting this here too cuz I'm just that #proudPI... New pre-print ! Check out Allison Daitch's follow up to her discovery of OPGs in #Caulobacter and their role in envelope integrity. TL;DR the OPG synthase OpgH is actually essential for morphogenesis in Caulo! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're hiring for a postdoc position focused on metabolic modeling. Please share widely.

🚨Psst: we are hiring in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in Pitt’s School of Medicine. Microbiologists wanted! 🧪🧬🦠

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Publication alert! 🚨

Our work on identifying mobile elements in evolving compost communities is out in ISME communications! 🦠🧬

Link: rdcu.be/dkAsc

Let me briefly summarise the paper in my first Bluesky thread:

My institute is hiring! Broad search. We're also interested in quantitative/theoretical people. The Biozentrum is an incredible place to work. Great support, facilities, funding... and quality of life here in Basel. Please consider applying and RP.
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

List of some of the shiny apps:
github.com/cooplab/Popg...
accompanying popgen book:
github.com/cooplab/popg...
plan to turn more of the figures from the book into shiny apps. We have a html & accessible version of the book in development.

These are great!

In case it is useful to you, here are some shiny apps I have built for teaching some basic population and quantitative genetics and phylogenetics in my evolutionary medicine class. Plus links to others Shiny apps.

bolnicklabresources.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/s...

Comments &suggestions welcome!

Major goal here is to spread all the NSF news and advice I can!

First piece of advice .... talk to your Program Director!

We are normal people. Most of us are former full-time faculty members who have been in your shoes. We've taught, mentored, done research, written grants, written papers, etc.

I'm so sorry to hear. I'll be thinking of you and your family.