See the new paper by Hanne Griem-Krey and @michaelhabig.bsky.social on hitchhiking on starships... fungi are weird!

How somatic evolution affects health - Nature Ecology & Evolution As somatic evolution becomes directly measurable, integrating eco-evolutionary principles with high-resolution molecular data creates opportunities to anticipate and prevent disease.

Tissues aren't static. They're evolving landscapes where mutant clones compete for dominance.
Phylogenetics on somatic lineages, cross-species comparison across lifespans and steering clonal trajectories are exciting directions!

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...

@lillycummins.bsky.social's new paper talking about complex gene-to-gene interactions are what actually drive bacteria evolution and drug resistance.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@bramvandijk.bsky.social (and many other)'s new paper covered insights in microbial ecology, evolution and theoretical biology.

Come & join us: Within @phar.cam.ac.uk, we have a a PhD studentship available for an October 2026 start in collaboration with @MaxionTx as part of the BioSCaPe programme www.babraham.ac.uk/work-and-stu.... Project details 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoyed the @phar.cam.ac.uk department final year talk last Friday. @psalmotoxin.bsky.social Smith Team delivered 5 talks from IBD & pain (Luke), joint pain (Helen and Monica), ageing (Cherry) to gut barrier functions (Anne). Wow 👏👏👏.

MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 release (initial long-read sequencing support and database update) Announcement We are pleased to share that MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 is now available, which incorporates taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time and includes a new version of the MetaPhl...

The new version of MetaPhlAn v4.2.2 released!

📌taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time
📌new version of the MetaPhlAn db (vJan25_202503) containing >21k new SGBs

Try it out & @hutlab.bsky.social and we are looking forward to your feedback!
forum.biobakery.org/t/metaphlan-...

Great to have you on board! If the project runs as smoothly as the punting, we’ll be sorted, exciting ties ahead 😃

Excited to have started my postdoc with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social, working on mole rat research! Got a really warm welcome from the team 😄🙌
Wrapped up the first week with some lab punting on Friday—strong start! (Mole rats weren't invited but we had a blast anyway 🛶)

Thanks for posting this. Indeed, you are fast (or am I too slow😂).
I wrote a short summary. Please feel free to add anything 🙌

Summary: Lavisha found an IS inserted next to a deletion, and I found an IS inserted between two duplication fragments. Interestingly, both have no target site duplications identified.

It suggested 1) IS element inserted in the DNA break, or 2) the Del or Dup was mediated by the IS transposase.

Thanks for creating this. May I ask if you could add me please 🙏

Delighted to contribute to this project and grateful that part of my PhD work builds upon the findings in this paper.
As I near the completion of my PhD journey, stay tuned for the updates and sharing of my research. 🙌