Sukrit Suresh

Congratulations Rachel! So cool!

That would be fantastic!

Awesome! Zurich is just 2.5 hours away and there's a great microbial eco-evo community here!

Any chance you'll drop by Switzerland?

Do plasmids evolve faster 🐇, slower 🐢, or just like chromosomes 🧬?

In our new paper, we tackled this question using theory, simulations, bioinformatics, and experiments!

👇 Check out all the details in Paula’s thread!

Hint: 🐇 (most of the time)

Come join us and do some cool pathogen-pathogen and host-pathogen interaction studies!

While making data summaries - Do not listen to the League of legends and/or Arcane soundtrack. Taking a trip through memory lane for all the experiments, with such a beautiful set of songs will definitely make you cry.

Why we should have more lab cleaning days.

Experimental evolution in winter - Actually a good idea. You don't lose out on any summer fun, you get done with transfers and most importantly, you are motivated to get it done on the daily.
With EE, Linkin Park's new album and Barcelona doing well - it's actually a fun winter so far!

News The Kümmerli lab at the Department of Quantitative Biomedicine is looking for a master student to carry out their thesis project. The project is titled “Experimental evolution of clinical...

We're looking for a Master student to join :D kuemmerli-lab.weebly.com/news

The journal Microbiology, published by the Microbiology Society, is looking to appoint two new Senior Editors to help shape panels in regulation, sensing & signalling and eukaryotic microbiology. Join us in advancing microbiological research. Express your interest: microb.io/3sUvKyh

Okay that looks awful... Almost snow season though!

So unfortunate when you have two fantastic talks scheduled for the same date and time. Looking forward to the fun talks next week though 😁

This image needs to be a part of your talk when you're with us next month!

What better start to the day than with free breakfast and a super cool seminar by @digglelab.bsky.social 🦠🧫

Really enjoyed this paper, I had to find this post again to let you know that I am discussing it for our lab's Journal Club tomorrow :)

Together with @frimanscience.bsky.social and our Chinese colleagues, we have worked out how to predict

(i) siderophore molecular structures
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

and

(ii) siderophore interaction networks in communities
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

from sequence data!

Welcome Rolf!

Mutators can drive the evolution of multi-resistance to antibiotics Author summary The global rise in antimicrobial resistance means we urgently need new approaches that halt its spread. Combination therapy, using multiple antibiotics as one treatment, proposes to do ...

📣 Paper: We show that mutators can drive the evolution of multi-resistance to antibiotics, in cases where purely wild type populations can't

This came out earlier this year while the other place was imploding

But it's a story I'm proud of for many reasons...

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journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Two more days to apply to the Ph.D. position on microbial ecology and evolution in our lab. Please share with any interested students!

Re-upping this: I'm looking for PhD students (start October 2024) to join my lab in Oxford. If you're interested in molecular evolution, archaea, chromatin, or all of the above, get in touch!

We see Candida and PA isolates from our sampling too (albeit not together at the same time). Looking forward to reading through the paper, it sounds super cool!

This is way too meta, and I love it.

Annual numbers of students, teachers, and schools participating in and learning with EvolvingSTEM, our classroom curriculum based on a bacterial evolution experiment.

Some figures are better than others. For us, this is up there, charting the growth of EvolvingSTEM over the last decade to reach ~5000 students in total. @evolvingstem.bsky.social. I'm so proud of this team and program!

Happy halloween 🦠

Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles Clonal development, but not aggregation, promotes the transition of Darwinian individuality from cells to groups, emphasizing the fundamental role of initial multicellular life cycles in the evolution...

Well, one of my favorite papers (3rd fav!) of my career was just published at @eLife. Here, we do what we do best: generate new understanding of the factors shaping multicellular evolution through a combo of synthetic biology, exptl evolution and theory. elifesciences.org/articles/84336

We're having a bit of a tough quarter over at Skype a Scientist. I'm writing grants nonstop over here but won't know if it's working for a couple months.

The collapse of social media has made our business model of many small donors beak. In the meantime, your support is VERY appreciated.

Research Associate: Mathematical biologist/ecologist to develop the ‘Digital Microbiome’ for mic... The Pawar Lab at the Silwood Park Campus of Imperial College London is seeking a mathematical / theoretical ecologist to lead the development of the Digital Microbiome towards optimising microbiomes t...

Not to be missed! New postdoc opportunity in our Dpt. to work with Samraat Pawar at the interface of Microbial community / Microbiome dynamics &  engineering and Physics of living / complex systems:

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descrip...

Will check it out! :)