Happy to finally share these results:
Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa
#microsky
Congratulations Will! Great news!!
Interested in predicting the dynamics of antibiotic resistance? Come work with us! We're looking for two postdocs to develop predictive models of resistance. We're interested in a range of approaches (mathematical & statistical modelling, causal inference, machine learning).
tinyurl.com/6c4y3jke
Interested in synthetic biology & microbiomes? 🧬🧫
We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbe–microbe & microbe–host interactions.
In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland🏔️⛵
@dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
Apply by 24.05.2026 👇
shorturl.at/6X7M4
Boosts appreciated!
View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu". © Ville de Fribourg
🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨
I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy
🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭
To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀
tinyurl.com/2wem36zz
A personal honor to have the work of myself and my collaborators covered in Il Piccolo, the Trieste newspaper that published James Joyce when he lived here.
Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Do you have an interest in quantitative microbiology and interdisciplinary research? I'm recruiting a UK PhD student to develop high-throughput ecological screens to help us understand how chemical inputs impact microbial ecosystems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Do you think transporters in E. coli contribute to metabolite release? No? Explore the effect of 66 different transporter knockout mutations on the exometabolome dynamics of ~300 metabolites yourself: keio.unil.ch
Teaser: Increased proline in ΔputP
#microsky #MEvoSky
Diagram illustrating "feed the enemy's enemy": ampicillin inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Citrobacter freundii acidifies the environment, further inhibiting P. aeruginosa.
New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!
I am excited to announce two PhD opportunities! Come and join our interdisciplinary team in Sheffield, UK.
- Destroying forever chemicals with microbes and cold plasma: tinyurl.com/mth8ymx5
- Learning how motile bacteria make decisions: tinyurl.com/2hmc9a8u
UK and overseas students welcome to apply!
The Institut d'Études Scientifiques (IESC), on the coast of Corsica.
I'm delighted to announce that the Interdisciplinary Challenges (IntCha) meeting is returning in April 2026! Abstract submission is now open.
We encourage young scientists working at the interface between biology and physics to join us at the IESC in Corsica. Website here: intcha26.sciencesconf.org
Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Three postdoctoral positions open (almost equally longitudinally spaced: one at @yale.edu with @martinadalbello.bsky.social , one at ELSI Tokyo with Shawn McGlynn, one with myself at ICTP in Trieste) to work collaboratively on www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project funded by @hfspo.bsky.social
Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
For details and more interesting results on time to extinction, and it's coefficient of variation, check out the paper!
Motivated by some very kind reviewers, we also found that when populations are surviving in a metastable state before going extinct, their dynamics can be described effectively by a much simpler OU process, which promises easier ecological inference!
We see that deterministic control parameter for survival also plays a role in stochastic version. True to the spirit of statistical physics, probability to survive for different carrying capacities collapse onto a single surface controlled by rescaled initial abundance and distance to criticality!
Check out our recent paper just out in Physical Review E!
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
with Alice Doimo, @giorgionicoletti.bsky.social, Davide Bernardi
We look into stochasticity arising from finite carrying capacity in classical metapopulation models to understand survival statistics.
Excellent opportunity for Palestinian 🇵🇸 students looking to pursue Bachelor/Master degrees
- 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities
- Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance
- €12,000/year average scholarship
Inquiry deadline is May 23
Links below, please circulate widely!
3 nights, 3 venues, 2 languages, 27 (!) speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in LAUSANNE.
📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭
🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/lausanne
Free entry 🧠 just come quench your thirst for knowledge!
@pintsworld.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
#pint25 #pintCH
Great to see this out! 🎉 Big congratulations to @type3lab.bsky.social for leading the project and to all involved!
"Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and T3SS spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection" 🌱🦠 rdcu.be/egczU
🧵⬇️ #MicroSky #PlantScience
Better late than never: it's time to tell you about my main project at EPFL 🇨🇭! What happens in competitive metacommunities when you take into account spatial structure and habitat heterogeneity? Once more, a great collaboration with @lambdapp and the people at @liphlab!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
There is still time to apply to the Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! The deadline has been extended till March 16th. We would especially welcome applications from members of underrepresented groups. Limited travel grants are available. Apply now and join us! almadalcoschool.github.io
Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We have many cool results coming up! So it's the perfect time to tell you about some of the projects we've worked on in the last two years, between UniPD 🇮🇹, EPFL 🇨🇭 and now ICTP 🇺🇳 - starting from ecology 🌲 with @lambdapp.bsky.social and the people of @liphlab.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters!
A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great initiative. Thanks! Can I be added too?
