Owen Hale

Grad student in @megbehri's lab studying the ecology, evolution, and health impacts of the human microbiome. GT alum 🐝

[CAIRIBU @CAIRIBU1]

THIS WEEK: The next URIG Research Hour is this Friday, December 19 at 3:00 PM ET (2 PM CT | 12 PM PT) and will feature mentor/mentee duo Megan Behringer, PhD and Owen Hale (both at Vanderbilt University).

More information: https://t.co/Mgf70z83fa

@megbehri
@owenmicro

[Logan F Turner @lturnerbio]

#stachesofevolution24
Caught fan of the show @StarlCone between talks rocking some exquisite face foliage. If you're a fan of E. Coli be sure to catch his talk Monday at 1030 in 516B. Great work sir!

#evolution2024 #Evol2024

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

Behringer lab is on our way to Montreal with an exciting lineup of talks and posters for #Evol2024!

We are also recruiting Postdocs who are interested in bacterial mutation rates, experimental evolution, transcriptional regulation, and/or adaptation to resource limitation!

[Sarah B Worthan @sb_worthan]

5 years ago I attended my 1st #ASMicrobe meeting in San Fran as a grad student poster presenter where I met my future post-doc advisor, @megbehri. Now, I’m back at #ASMicrobe in my home state and speaking in a great session! Come check out my talk! #fullcircle #growth #5yearplan

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

The Behringer Lab at Vanderbilt is looking to hire a research assistant! A great position for trainees interested in microbiology, evolution, & genetics while gaining experience in anaerobic cell culture, experimental evolution, & genome editing.
Details at quote tweet below! ⬇️

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

Hot off the presses! 📰📰
E. coli evolution in repeated 100-day Feast/Famine cycles is out in @CurrentBiology!

We see high mutational order, extreme parallelism (nucleotide level!), & early mutations can ⬆️ fitness simultaneously for growth & survival!
https://t.co/TjcLESCzUG

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

Preprint Alert! 🚨🚨🚨
Exciting collaboration between my group, @MarcBoudvillain’s group and @bpbratton!

From populations experimentally evolved to extreme feast/famine cycles, we find pH-sensing rho alleles that confer pH-dependent plasticity in transcription termination!

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

Honored that our work was awarded the Zuckerkandl Prize by @JMolEvo. This was a terrific effort by Postdoc @sb_worthan and former undergraduate Robby McCarthy! A must read for anyone who performs lab cell culture, is interested in plasticity, or collects fitness measurements!

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

Good Morning!
I’m excited to share our study in #mbio led by PhD candidate @StarlCone investigating 6mA evolution in E. coli! 🥳🧫🧬
Carl developed an R package (CoMMA) for differential methylation analysis of 6mA, so you can analyze differential 6mA too! https://t.co/leYuknqQqc

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

August is already off to a strong start for the lab!

Great presentations by postdoc @sb_worthan and Ph.D student @owenmicro at their respective GRCs! 🙌

Awesome poster by summer undergrad Briana Harness! 👏🧫🩺

Now, a ESI-MIRA NOA to start the fall semester!! 💪🥳🥳

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

Great day at the @VI4Research Symposium. Oven Hale (@owenmicro), a Ph. D. Student in our lab, got to share his research conducting mutation studies in Lactic Acid Bacteria.

[Sarah B Worthan @sb_worthan]

👇Check out our most recent paper!

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

New #preprint from our lab! Here, PhD student @StarlCone has developed an R package (CoMMA) to annotate and identify differential 6mA methylation in microbes from Nanopore data. With CoMMA he observes relaxed selection on 6mA in Exp. evolved E.coli clones without mismatch repair.

[Carl Stone @StarlCone]

Happy to share that a preprint is up for my 1st 1st-author publication! I wrote an R package for analyzing 6mA methylation in bacteria with Nanopore data. 6mA is dynamic! Less methylation around promoters, breakdown in 6mA over time w/o MMR. All the hits inside the paper!

[GT (Bio)chemistry @GT_CHEM]

New paper alert! @AReddiLab and colleagues describe differential use of exogenous and endogenous heme by M. tuberculosis in this offering.

https://t.co/FM2PAyIPBm

[Michael Neugent PhD @MikeNeug]

I am so proud to have the first major report of our #rUTI #metagenomics studies of the postmenopausal #urobiome published today in @CellRepMed #OpenAccess. Here's a quick summary of what we found in this @NIDDKgov and @WelchFoundation funded study. 1/7

https://t.co/BaYq38K4uZ

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

So happy to finally make a thorough post about our new study with @wchoEvo, Complex Ecotype Dynamics Evolve in Response to Fluctuating Resources in @mbiojournal! (1/n) https://t.co/KEK6MNNGMl

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

So proud of @StarlCone! Did an amazing job at his quals today and is now a PhD candidate!!!
Big day for the Behringer lab, our first grad student is now our first candidate! More good things to come! @VUGradSchool @VU_ASM @VandyBioGrad

[Megan Behringer @megbehri]

4) We are also welcoming a new graduate student to the group, Owen Hale (@owenmicro)! Owen’s interests are metagenomics, evolution, and the microbiome. So stay tuned for great things from him!