Martina Dal Bello

We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social

Feel free to contact me for info about this open position and the project! Fully funded through @hfspo.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn

New ERC funded computational postdoc position in my lab! We are looking for someone who will study the genomics of bacterial evolution using samples from experimental evolution and clinical trials. Lots of opportunities for interesting and fun collaboration!
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I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly on model marine particles Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

Check out our new paper led by brilliant @jhuisman.bsky.social about how microbial communities cope with stress due to increasing salinity in their environment. We have all your favorites: isolate phenotyping, pairwise competitions, community propagations, and theory. #microsky #mevosky #ecosky

Oh hey, we did a thing!!! Fun collab between the Coughlan and @mollyschumer.bsky.social labs!!! www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Lead by the absolutely ✨STELLAR✨ @hybridzones.bsky.social, @nemovrobles.bsky.social, and
@majorodriguezb.bsky.social.

Congrats to postdoc Zhe Zhou on her paper out today in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing that gut bacteria cross-feed a common dietary antioxidant to produce energy under anaerobic conditions. Thanks to collaborators Angela Jiang and Xiaofang Jiang at NIH.
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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

This project is in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn!

📢 We're seeking a postdoc to work on a project funded by HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social at the intersection of bacterial physiology, ecology and evolution. You can find more details about the project, the position, and how to apply here www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project! #bacteria #ecosky #MevoSky #microSky

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!

New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology!

Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

Starting my Bluesky adventure by highlighting a new paper from the lab!

Plant domestication does not reduce diversity in root microbiomes Domestication has profoundly shaped human civilization and the genetic makeup of numerous plant and animal species. While the effects of plant domestication at the genetic and phenotypic levels are well-documented, its impact on plant microbiome remains less understood. Root microbiomes play crucial roles in nutrient acquisition, pathogen defense, and biotic stress tolerance, yet the influence of domestication on their diversity and assembly is still debated. Two primary hypotheses have been proposed: 1) the reduction in microbial diversity resulting from the domestication process, and 2) the diminished ability of host plants to control their microbiomes. To evaluate these hypotheses, we conducted a meta-analysis of multiple crops, comparing the root microbiomes of domesticated plants and their wild relatives. Our results indicate that the effects of domestication are species-specific and context-dependent, with most domesticated plants exhibiting increased microbial diversity and more structured communities, while others show no significant change. Overall, this study provides evidence that plant domestication does not lead to a uniform reduction in microbial diversity or a consistently diminished ability of plants to influence their microbiomes. Based on these findings, we discuss new perspectives and the need for future studies incorporating native soils and host genetic variation in such experiments, analyzing not only diversity but also microbiome function, and considering how root morphology might affect microbiome recruitment. Finally, we highlight the need for research on the potential adaptive or maladaptive consequences that introgression between wild and domesticated plants could have from a microbiome perspective. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

In the literature of domestication and microbiomes there seems to be the expectation that: domestication should lead to the loss of microbiome diversity and host-control. Alejandra Hernandez-Teran and I were both skeptical of both, so we decided to see what we know so far (1/6)
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

Pinning the EcoEvo job board so I’ll no longer have a reason to revisit the blue bird website.

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Home The Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour

Great school one collective behavior in memory of Alma Dal Co next Sept in Venice. Terrific lineup of speakers
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Application deadline Feb 2025, travel grants available

ASM Microbe early abstracts are due by Dec. 3rd! I'm part of the EEB Track committee, and we have some exciting sessions looking for abstracts, including: "How persisters, spores or dormant microbes affect human and environmental health," "Microbes in a Chemical World,"... 1/4

Great list! Can I be added as well? Thanks!! 🦠

Temperature structuring of microbial communities on a global scale Temperature is a fundamental physical constraint regulating key aspects of microbial life. Protein binding, membrane fluidity, central dogma processes…

Curious about microbes🦠and warming🌡️? Check out our latest paper, where Clare Abreu and I explore microbial communities' physiological, ecological, and functional responses to temperature. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Should I stay or should I go? 🎵

In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)

Looking north at the Washington Square Arch, with 1 Fifth avenue behind it and a fountain in front of it. NYU Biology is a block to the right from this scene, on Washington Square East.

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!!
We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics.
Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success.
Apply!
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Ecosystem stability relies on diversity difference between trophic levels https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.23.609466v1 The stability of ecological communities has a profound impact on humans, ranging from individual hea

Ecosystem stability relies on diversity difference between trophic levels https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.23.609466v1

Our article on microbial interactions is out!
We discuss what are microbial interactions, what are they useful for, and how to quantify them.
For more, see lead author @nittaym.bsky.social 's 🧵:
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or read the full article here (free access until Sep 1st):
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Shape the conversation at ASM Microbe 2025 in LA! One week left to submit a session proposal by the Aug. 1st deadline. I'm on the Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (EEB) program committee this year and we want your proposals!
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Reversion to metabolic autonomy underpins evolutionary rescue of a bacterial obligate mutualism bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Happy to share our latest manuscript we we study evolutionary rescue in a bacterial mutualism:
Reversion to metabolic autonomy underpins evolutionary rescue of a bacterial obligate mutualism
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Please share: collaborative postdoc opportunity in microbial ecology and evolution at Indiana University Bloomington

NSF Biology Integration Institute (BII) on "Genomics and Eco-evolution of Multi-Scale Symbioses (GEMS)”  
@GEMS_BII: tinyurl.com/4vyf6erd

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