Jonathan Friedman

Excited to share our latest paper in PLOSCompBiol @plos.bsky.social !

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Our study dives into the comparison of possible extracellular polysaccharide degradation strategies and their impact on microbial growth and community dynamics. 1/6
#Microbialecology

Our paper looking at algae-bacteria interactions across thousands of nutrient conditions using droplet microfluidics is out now in Cell Systems: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jixB8YyDf...

New Microbial Primer published: What is the stringent response and how does it allow bacteria to survive stress? #MicroSky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

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):
shorturl.at/ONiNS

Collective peroxide detoxification determines microbial mutation rate plasticity in E. coli In some bacteria, mutation rates depend on environmental factors such as population density. This study uses simulation-guided experiments to show that denser microbial populations detoxify their envi...

Super excited that the final version of our paper on mutation rate plasticity and oxidative stress is out now at PLoS biology! This paper shows how mutation rates are a highly dynamic trait shaped by genotype, community composition and abiotic factors. 1/8
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Dreamjob alert !!!

In my research group, the position of a permanently employed staff scientist is available.

The position includes both research and teaching (in German).

Please RT

Deadline: 25.08.24

More infos:
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Only 6 more days to apply to this PhD position in my group. 👇 Please RT.

🆕 I’m looking for a postdoc to join the group!
This is for a project as part of the @multidefence.bsky.social consortium, looking at genome defences and horizontal gene transfer in Pseudomonas. Deadline 12th August. 🧵
my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

We are on the look out for postdocs to join the Lieberman Lab at MIT. Areas include:

-Connecting bacterial warfare to strain dynamics in vivo

-Evolution and transmission of microbes in humans

-Revisiting role of microbes in acne vulgaris

Take a look at our recent preprints and reach out!

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

Are you interested in mutualisms?

Have you always wondered how these cooperative interactions emerge and coevolve?

If the answer to these questions is YES, then please consider joining my vibrant group as a PhD student.

Please RT.

More details👇

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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

We found that evolutionary rescue occurred often, and in a surprising way (at least to us).

To learn more, check out the thread (in the other place) by lead author Ignacio Melero-Jimenez:

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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
shorturl.at/tFNTw

Wonderful BlueSky:

We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.

Consider applying / reposting.

www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

I'm happy 😀 to announce I have a PhD position on the mathematical 🧮 modelling 💻 of microbial 🦠 evolution! I'm looking forward to working with an enthousiastic candidate on this project, please contact me with any questions! #JobAlert Please retweet! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

Thanks, Ben!

We'll definitely take a closer look at your paper.
Just a speculation, but @nittaym.bsky.social suggested that perhaps D. hansenii has a stronger influence since it grows earlier within each transfer and thus can exert stronger selection on S. xylosus.

Finally, any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

We have not yet submitted this manuscript, so we still have a chance to address issues and avoid (some of) the wrath of Reviewer 2...

Check out Nittay's thread or the preprint for more details on our system and results, and for our ideas about why we got these results and what influences the extent to which evolution will depend on the presence of additional species. >>

We had all sorts of fun theoretical expectations for how coevolution would be different.

But we were wrong - the majority of evolutionary changes were independent of whether species evolved alone or with another species. >>

New preprint from our lab:

How does coevolving with other species differ from what happens when individual species evolve on their own?

A couple of years ago @nittaym.bsky.social
set out to answer this question using experimental evolution of bacteria. >>

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...