Gerda Saxer

What a win for MSU! Congratulations!

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!

Depends on the paper, one paper was not resubmitted again after four rejections, one was published on the sixth submission.

Happy to see this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social!

We combined experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to ask: can bacteria evolve to swim away from their viral parasites?

1/n #evosky 🦠 #phage 🧪

(gift link:)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TETM9...

Very nice!

Social life cycle of D. discoideum illustrating clone mixing. Life stages are not drawn to scale. Labels on the illustration read: 1) vegetative amoebas feed on bacteria, 2) when starving, amoebas aggregate to form multicellular mound, 3) mound matures into a motile slug and moves towards light, 4) during fruiting, most amoebas develop into spores, ~20% are sacrificed to form stalk, 5) spores disperse to new environments and hatch into vegetative amoebas, 6) by disproportionately investing in spores, cheater genotypes can outcompete cooperators.

The hidden cost of aggregation lies in the incompatibilities between cells with different genetic dialects
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @jahanisrat.bsky.social, @treyjscott.bsky.social, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social, and David C Queller

I am more surprised that you have an umbrella in your purse, I am not even sure I own one. 😉

Thank you!

Could you add me as well, please?

Are you interested in research in evolutionary genetics & genomics 🧬 (but maybe not ready to apply to graduate school)? Come work with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Rice University, University of Houston, or Texas A&M!

Apply to our #NSF funded post-bacc research program! (Please share!)

Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition The ubiquity of bacteriophages (phages) and the major evolutionary and ecological impacts they can have on their microbial hosts has resulted in phages often cited as key drivers shaping microbial com...

Hello new phage phollowers!

I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"

www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Very interesting!

Wild Patagonian yeast improve the evolutionary potential of novel interspecific hybrid strains for L... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

We have new yeasty pre-print out led by star postdoc Jennifer Molinet. This paper has it all: wild yeast from Patagonia, experimental evolution, whole genomes, de novo mutations, gene expression, CRISPR, and of course, beer!🍻🧪

It is an amazing place!