If you are into microbial population genetics and interested in doing a PhD to study marine environments (or if you know someone who may be a good fit), there is a new opportunity at the ERH Zurich with the Microbiome Research:

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

We have three opening in Rosalind Allen's lab in Jena:

1 - Postdoc 'Modelling Stochastic Switching in Microbial Populations' (with Ashley Shade's lab)
2 - Postdoc 'Theoretical biophysical modelling of bacterial growth, division and antibiotic response'
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Alright stop, collaborate and listen, #phageWO is back with a brand new invention.

Developing sperm is in yellow. Long noncoding RNA is in blue. Cytoplasmic incompatibility depletes this blue messenger to initiate the catastrophic cascade leading to paternal-effect lethality.

📣Interested, but unsure about what graduate school involves? Check out C-CoMP's #BridgetoPhD program in ocean science (ccomp-stc.org/education-dive……)! We especially welcome applications from people who bring diverse perspectives to #STEM . Please help amplify! #DiversityinSTEM

📣📷We are looking for our next C-CoMP #Postdoc Fellowship cohort! Consider applying if you are interested in working with us to study the chemicals and microbial processes that underlie the surface ocean carbon cycle. Please RT! tinyurl.com/25hty8a9 #DiversityinSTEM

This one comes with a great data analysis and many soothing insights into ecological and evolutionary drivers of gene transfer between microbes and its implications over time. Quite an excellent work by Marija Dmitrijeva | on vacation 🇲🇽, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Luis Pedro Coelho🌻🇮🇱 et al:

nature.com/articles/s4155…

I'm very excited to share our work (with Emily Fogarty and A. Murat Eren (Meren) ) to identify thousands of plasmids in nature and to characterize their evolution and ecology, now out at Nature Microbiology! nature.com/articles/s4156…