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