Lucy Dillon

Congrats Tabea!! 🤩🥳

22.09.2025 07:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there only one "path" that evolution tends to take when a new trait arises? Or can the trait arise in more than one way? In other words, walking back from a particular evolutionary "destination", do we always take the same path? The answer might be "no", at least some of the time. In fact... 1/n

22.08.2025 19:37 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes. Background: Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is w...

New preprint from the group: @lucydillon.bsky.social analysis of 16,000+ genomes finds Bacteria cannot combine certain resistance genes as they are mutually exclusive, forcing them down incompatible evolutionary paths.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671315v1
@jomcinerney.bsky.social

22.08.2025 10:38 — 👍 18    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you very much! ☺️

01.04.2025 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A few days left to apply for this Postdoc working with microbes and flies! 🧫 🪰 🦠

07.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

PhD grad 🥳 Special thanks to my family, friends, and all of the Creevey lab - especially my supervisor @hairyllama.bsky.social! I couldn’t have done it without you!

14.12.2024 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Excited to be attending VIBE conference this year! I will be presenting a poster on Friday using pangenomics and ML to investigate multidrug-resistance 🧬🧫👩🏼‍💻

04.12.2024 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0