Lovely article in Quanta Magazine about our recent neutral hypothesis explaining why prokaryotes have never evolved complex multicellularity.

This isn't the simplest story to explain, and Veronique Greenwood did a great job making it widely accessible.

quantamagazine.org/the-mystery-of…

Our paper on the meaning of oral bacteria in feces is out in Nature Microbiology ! We suggest their increased relative abundance in the gut is due to depleted gut-resident bacteria, not their active growth. Huge thanks to Thierry Rolling , Ana, Tobias Hohl MD, PhD, Joao, and all collaborators!

Planning to attend Evolution Meetings #Evol2024 ?

Consider submitting your work to the symposium on 'Within-organism conflicts'!

I have written an 'intermediate programming' course which is aimed at helping improve programming skills of bioinformatics/computational biology graduate students and postdocs. The notes are self-contained and are freely available:
iprogramming.bacpop.org

An amazing piece of research by Jason Chen! You'd be missing out by choosing not to read this one. The pictures alone are worth it.

“What we’ve discovered will be a pathway to new diagnostics, a pathway to better think about antibiotic resistance mitigation,” said EPI member & UF PHHP UF Medicine faculty Dr. Eric Nelson.

UF Health covers his recent study published in Science Magazine.
bit.ly/3UdP9Ur

What a great day visiting friends Emerging Pathogens Institute ! I even did an experiment.
(Maybe not a successful experiment, but an experiment)

Assessing #phage -host population dynamics by reintroducing virulent viruses. Emma Allen-Vercoe shows colony isolation removes virulent viruses from gut #bacteria . Reintroducing virulent #virome to bacteria has specific impacts on community & prophages cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Sequencing directly from Rapid Antigen Test strips!

A major concern of Rapid Antigen Tests has been the loss of public health data such as virus sequencing

However, Rapid Tests do not have to imply a loss in Public Health Data - reporting and sequencing can still move…

New data set for #gut #microbiome based #HealthIndex #CAMDA challenge! Take one or submit late breaking methods research! Due 20 May camda.info Join distinguished keynote speakers
Catherine Lozupone & andrey rzhetsky CAMDA 2024 ISCB News klawze yu 🇺🇦 Jesse Shapiro Chris Mason

Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)

RIP

Dennett on how to criticise wisely

Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today in Nature Communications ! Here follows a thread (1/ ) link.springer.com/article/10.103…

If anyone wants to talk #AMR tonight from 4-6, please join us Concordia University

concordia.ca/cuevents/offic…

Microbiomes are crucial for health and the environment. This review in #MGen uses deep learning to analyse metagenomics, improving pathogen identification and disease prediction. Submit your work to #MGen 's Metagenomics and Microbiomes section! doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

La professeure Claude Bhérer et son équipe étudient le génome des populations fondatrices et leurs maladies génétiques, notamment le syndrome de Leigh de type canadien-français 
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@mcgillmed

MP Kirsty Duncan is an incredible leader, passionate about research & the community doing the work & advocating for them since day one despite personal hardship.

You are a true example of resilience, thank you for your work & service 🙏

Yes, this👇Calm down people. This is great news and we should applaud Support Our Science for their work to help make this happen. Now let's all work together towards the next step: increased overall funding so students, postdocs, and staff can get the salary they deserve.

“I remember Montreal as the city that enabled me to go into the Major Leagues…Had it not been for the fact that we broke in in Montreal, I doubt seriously if we could have made the grade so rapidly. The fans there were just fantastic, and my wife and I had nothing but the…

I want to congratulate former student Hannah Strobel and our collaborators for this paper, our first directly studying the physical properties of our favorite protein, bacteriophage lambda's receptor-binding protein (J).

academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…