Extremely proud of my student Will Hamilton and the work we've done to characterize Wolbachia ankyrin repeat proteins. TLDR: they do interact with specific Drosophila proteins! journals.asm.org/eprint/KXVNI...
Omg Lilian I am so excited for you! Congratulations on your position and I hope to see you again sometime soon 🙌☺️⭐️💃🏻🐝
Interested in joining the lab or collaborating? I’d love to hear from you! You can use my current website as a reference (liliancaesar.com) - Caesar Lab version coming soon 😊
I am thrilled to share that this fall I’ll be joining the University of Oklahoma School of Biological Sciences (@ou.edu) as an Assistant Professor! The Caesar Lab will study the ecology and evolution of host-microbiome interactions in social bees (honey bees, stingless bees and more) 🦠🐝
Pls share: Postdoc position in Dept of Micro & Immun, Indiana U. School of Med, focused on how Lyme disease pathogen uses 2nd-messenger signaling to survive & establish persistent infection in mammalian host & the tick vector. Applicants: send CV to xfyang@iu.edu or contact Dr. Frank Yang.
Dan Weinberger and I @yalesph.bsky.social are hiring multiple research positions in microbial/virus sequencing and bioinformatics workflows with respiratory pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, RSV, and/or hMPV.
See 👉 forms.gle/xpmzTtNqHFqK...
Great read, thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad you said something, I was just seeing that in my email today as well after previously having it off… ☹️
Announcing Seattle DROP: Discover Research Opportunities for Postdocs on May 5th
Interested in postdoc opportunities in Seattle, WA? Seattle DROP is a virtual biomedical postdoc recruitment event sponsored by @fredhutch.org, @uwnews.uw.edu, and @seattlechildrens.org on May 5th from 8 AM-1 PM PT.
Metagenomic strain-resolved DNA modification patterns link extrachromosomal genetic elements to host strains www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ @mgmarin.bsky.social and @lh3lh3.bsky.social
Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers who gave very helpful feedback.
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Hi, Blue Sky phage enthusiasts @phagepapers.bsky.social! My lab has been busy cooking up some cool phage science that is all out now on BioRxiv, so I am here to share with you:
In the lab, antibiotics can make integrated viruses (prophages) pop out of bacterial genomes. In this (short!) preprint, we asked a simple question: how much does this happen outside the lab, in the human gut?
TLDR: Not much overall, in specific bacterial species.
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Let's figure out a way to add forwards on whatsapp to your google scholar profile :)
While writing my PhD thesis (2020), I was told not to worry - no one besides the committee would read it. Today I learned it’s widely shared by beekeepers in WhatsApp groups in Brazil. I knew about the manual I wrote for this purpose, but not the thesis. Happy to see it being useful beyond academia!
#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.
Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!
#science #evolution #microbiology
Check out the latest from @cathyhernandez.bsky.social, where she shows that prophage activity underlies intraspecific variation in thermal tolerance AND evolutionary rescue in response to extreme temperature challenge.
This is one for prophage peeps and climate change peeps.
Excited to share a preprint of work from my postdoc with @paulturnerlab.bsky.social exploring how prophages can impact host thermal ecology and evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Next one in a storm of preprints from our lab's amazing scientists.. Recent-ex-postdoc, #newPI @cathyhernandez.bsky.social studied thermal ecology of marine bacteria isolated near New Haven. Turns out, response of this bacterium to temperatures is shaped by prophages!
#phagesky #microsky
Cancer therapies exploit DNA repair defects to kill tumours. We asked whether the same logic could constrain antibiotic resistance evolution...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI
SFI’s Santiago Elena has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
He joins 62 fellows in the 2026 class. His work explores how RNA viruses adapt to hosts and manipulate cellular resources. Since joining SFI in 2008, he has organized several working groups on virus evolution.
I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
Now out & nicely formatted in @isme-microbes.bsky.social
A big analysis of ocean genomes & metagenomes co-led by former postdocs, now PIs, @gmdouglas.bsky.social & @cyanophage.bsky.social along with co-PIs @lbobay.bsky.social & Samuel Chaffron.
A few highlights... 🧵 (1/n)
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
congrats all! 🤩 🦠
www.growkudos.com/publications...
New work with @ckarakoc.bsky.social and @shoestrapped.bsky.social in @pnas.org
Congrats Lily! 👏
Our new paper and associated blog post were published today! And @biancanogr.bsky.social and @diemq.bsky.social finally made bsky accounts so I could tag them.
This is Bianca's paper from our lab and DiemQuynh's first ever.
I'm so happy to have this review out finally!