After a truly amazing presentation on “Evolution of Plasmid Transfer Genes in Bacterial Communities”, a huge congratulations to @livkosterlitz for earning the prestigious Plasmid Biology Prize at the 2024 @PlasmidSociety meeting in Hamamatsu Japan!
Benjamin Kerr
@evokerr
evolutionary biologist, microbe enthusiast, math junkie, dog lover, caffeine repository
Professor of Biology, University of Washington
(he/him)
Professor of Biology, University of Washington
(he/him)
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How does exposure to different hosts affect evolution of bacterial genes on mobile elements? In @MolBioEvol, @livkosterlitz et al use barcode methods to compare adaptive landscapes across species & show alignment enables a form of adaptive “crowdsourcing”🧵academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40…
academic.oup.com Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation... Abstract. Genes that undergo horizontal gene transfer (HGT) evolve in different genomic backgrounds. Despite the ubiquity of cross-species HGT, the effects Exciting new resource for math bio folks!
🚨🚨New textbook alert!!🚨🚨View quoted post on X
Introducing Mathematical Biology: An Open Education Resource
sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingmat…
Key points:
* It's FREE
* It's interactive
* It's accessible
* It's...standard math-bio content for undergrads but did I mention it's FREE?
A wonderful new resource for HGT research! After separately contributing creative new techniques to measure plasmid conjugation, @livkosterlitz & @Jana_Huisman teamed up to write a comprehensive and insightful set of guidelines on the topic. Check out the thread and paper! 👇
Ever wondered about estimating & reporting plasmid conjugation rates? We did too! Excited to share our new paper in Plasmid, where we propose guidelines for estimating & reporting these experiments. authors.elsevier.com/c/1h3ZU,3Mq7BJ… Thread👇View quoted post on X
In case you're looking for an article to inspire you, check out this superb new offering from @ozan_g_b, @dahaj1897, @YunkerLab, @wc_ratcliff, and their colleagues. Big congratulations (even bigger than the evolved yeast snowflakes!) to the team on this exciting work!!
Out now in @Nature:View quoted post on X
De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity
By G. Ozan Bozdag, Seyed Alireza Zamani-Daha, Peter Yunker, William Ratcliff & colleagues.
@wc_ratcliff
nature.com/articles/s4158…
