Peter Conlin

Evolutionary biology, postdoc

[Yuriy Pichugin @ab_in_]

Nine PhD positions are open at Max Planck Institute. Come to work with me on modeling of the origins of organismic complexity at the onset of multicellular life. Application deadline is January 26.

[Katherine Xue @ksxue]

Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. https://t.co/rTuQTul2zj 1/2

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

Only 2 weeks left to apply for the position of a permanently employed staff scientist in my group 👇

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

Very excited to announce that in my group the post of a senior staff scientist/ group leader is available.

The position includes both research and teaching
(in German + English).

Deadline: 25.08.24

More infos: https://t.co/eCtMLtwvXL

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[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!

[Tami Lieberman @conTaminatedsci]

We are on the look out for postdocs to join the Lieberman Lab at MIT. Areas include:
-Connecting bacterial warfare to strain dynamics in vivo -Evolution and transmission of strains in humans
-Revisiting role of microbes in acne
Take a look at our recent preprints and reach out!

[Jose Luis Rolando @joseluisrolando]

Excited to announce that I'll be returning to @UF as an Assistant Professor in Microbial Ecology @UF_MCS starting January 2025! My lab at @UFIFAS_FLREC will study how biogeochemical transformations mediated by plant-microbe interactions impact ecosystem function. Stay tuned!

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

Hi folks, I’m excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity.
https://t.co/Igu0fNv0BC

[Benjamin Kerr @evokerr]

How does exposure to different hosts affect evolution of bacterial genes on mobile elements? In @MolBioEvol, @livkosterlitz et al use barcode methods to compare adaptive landscapes across species & show alignment enables a form of adaptive “crowdsourcing”🧵https://t.co/oTISNGQjuZ

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

Cuboidal cell packing is a common yet understudied route to multicellularity. In work led by @PineauRozenn and @ozan_g_b, we explore its origin as a multicellular geometry capable of supporting a transition in individuality using fission yeast. https://t.co/WrajKKiQN4

[Ethan Linck @ethanblinck]

I’m recruiting! Looking for 1-2 MS students to join my lab in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University and work on questions related to conservation and population genomics in birds. Thanks for spreading the word—details here: https://t.co/OxxrS8QYNr

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

An exciting new PhD project is available in my group to work on synergistic coevolution.

The project will analyse an experiment in which a cooperative interaction evolved between two bacterial strains.

Deadline: October 13, 2023

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More details:
https://t.co/N069yeGavB

[María Rebolleda @MRebolleda]

🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). https://t.co/mmQ43gJTxr

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

Another beautiful movie by the @Tomocubeinc HT-X1. This is the ancestor of the MuLTEE (ace2 delta) yeast.

You can see packing-driven group reproduction here. Going back now for higher temporal resolution, with fluorescent probes! @TanFad @MBLScience

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

We have a new preprint, showing that living systems can entangle in ways non-living systems can’t. In non-living systems, entanglement only occurs under specific geometric regimes. Not so for growing systems! Given time, most geometries can entangle.

https://t.co/plJJSLeQIA

[Olivia Kosterlitz @livkosterlitz]

Ever wondered about estimating & reporting plasmid conjugation rates? We did too! Excited to share our new paper in Plasmid, where we propose guidelines for estimating & reporting these experiments. https://t.co/2Sn9VMYESJ Thread👇

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

I wrote about an incredible experiment in which microscopic, single-celled yeast evolved to become multicellular organisms visible to the naked eye, recreating one of evolution’s most pivotal transitions in a lab, in just one year.

https://t.co/UXtI7ZMR8A

[Katrin Hammerschmidt @Hammerschmidt_K]

Curious about multicellular life cycle evolution? Check out the summary of our latest study in cyanobacteria https://t.co/k4Zc0qpIt2 with @ab_in_ & a yeast study https://t.co/0EUhJF1ZfS by @Ju_Brr & @EvolvingMurray! Big thanks @wc_ratcliff & @peterlconlin for the great dispatch!

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25

Free, full access link: https://t.co/lWh33eHQrf

[Alison Feder @AlisonFeder]

Rapid recombination is an important driver of HIV intra-host evolution. Because recombination requires that multiple viruses co-infect a cell, Elena Romero and I wondered if high viral loads increase HIV's recombination rate.

tl;dr: we think they do!

https://t.co/c9AnY8rwIm