Tim Barraclough

Professor of Evolutionary Biology, species, diversity, microbes, genomics, experimental evolution. All the good photos by Jo Barraclough

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

Gene transfer from a different fungus has led to outbreaks of coffee wilt disease 🍄

Outbreaks have severely impacted coffee production across sub-Saharan Africa

New research in @PLOSBiology with @TimBarraclough9 @imperialcollege @CABI_News 👇
https://t.co/AdhHW7oDSp

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Also posting here @timbarra.bsky.social

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and high stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! https://t.co/HK0NsReMTP

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

Tiny freshwater animals use stolen genes to create antibiotics 🦠

New research in @NatureComms with @StirUni & @MBLScience shows that when bdelloid rotifers catch an infection, they turn on these genes to help protect themselves 👇
https://t.co/53Eb5yMsLZ

[Sara Mitri @saramitri]

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities https://t.co/s2x7ncXcWZ. Apply https://t.co/4cV3n2ti0x before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

[The Systematics Association @SystAssn]

And for today's final presentation we had @TimBarraclough9 talking about the phylogenomics of bdelloid rotifers.

[Journal of Evolutionary Biology @JEvBio]

There is lots of evidence for porous species boundaries, and transfer of beneficial genes between #species
But does selection favour porous rather than closed species boundaries?

This article by @TimBarraclough9 @OxfordBiology investigates 👉https://t.co/ozNbhqR37q

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Or lose yourself browsing Michael Plewka's amazing photos of bdelloids and other rotifers https://t.co/LhndYRR71x

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Bdelloid rotifers are fabulous animals. Find out more in our review on recombination in bdelloid rotifer genomes: asexuality, transfer and stress @Cgwils8 @TymekPieszko @OxfordBiology https://t.co/jXXAhmrcZd

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

One year postdoc available to work on on the tempo and mode of genome evolution in wild communities @OxfordBiology Closing date 22nd March. https://t.co/cTaJB3RAW1

[Ester Gaya @EsterGaya1]

Congratulations Dr Theo Llewellyn @theo_llewellyn for passing your PhD viva with such an excellent Dissertation! So proud 😊 of you!
@Timbarraclough9 & @ Tom Prescott
Thanks to @fisher_mat and Paul Dyer for being such an enthusiastic panel.
#lichens #genomics #BGCs

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

Interested in evolution, mathematical modelling, genomics and food security? PhD available with us in Oxford, deadline 5th January. Allocated funding for stipend plus fees including international.

https://t.co/eEHoWOFYqL

[Jiqiu Wu 吴季秋 @JiqiuWu]

Our paper - CRISPR dynamics during the interaction between bacteria and phage in the first year of life is finally out! 🎉🎉 Thanks @TimBarraclough9 @yuerua1 @DaomingWang1 @jingyuan_fu make it happen! https://t.co/0fOTAhSGwF

[Nilo @nilomr]

🐦🎵 Bird song news! 🎵 We're thrilled to share our extensively documented dataset of songs from a wild bird population with you: over 1.1M acoustic units from 109K songs, sung by ~400 individual Great Tits in Wytham Woods. https://t.co/IHQxrN3Q7h A 🧵:

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

Congratulations @JiqiuWu on publishing @Silwood_Park masters project on CRISPR dynamics and bacteria-phage interactions in infants. https://t.co/gGNnedgE0p

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

Congratulations Hans and @little_peck on this paper from a Masters @Silwood_Park conducted during lockdown, out today. On temperature and host specialists of coffee wilt disease on arabica and robusta coffee.
https://t.co/UxVNe9oQbd

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

Mammals in search of beetles in a sunny water meadow @magdalenoxford @OxfordBiology

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

@DinahGLRoseKC The vibes are more greyhound to me, albeit with a exaggerated neck and droopy face. And if it is from the 1500s, it is a few centuries older than dinosaur art. https://t.co/c7UJhsBmO3

[Tim Barraclough @TimBarraclough9]

@DinahGLRoseKC I'm not saying it is an accurate representation of a greyhound, but yet to hear a better suggestion...

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We will continue surveying beetles over the summer as part of ongoing efforts to document biodiversity in our own green corridor in the heart of Oxford. Thanks Joe Tester and Alex McDermott-Roberts for photos.

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A beautiful day last week surveying beetles in the water meadow @magdalenoxford with our @OxfordBiology students led by Benedict Pollard (https://t.co/H45sMS4PUc) and Darren Mann (@morethanadodo). Check out the thread to see what we found.

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And possibly our largest beetle on site, a cockchafer that was attracted to our light trap