One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.
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Happy to share that our preprint is now out! We discuss how Synthetic Biology can be used as a powerful tool to answer questions in evolutionary biology. We hope it will be a useful resource for the community!
With @3xueying.bsky.social and
@hhydrochaerus.bsky.social
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A fun little side project I've been working on with @stepadenisov.bsky.social , Mato Lagator, and Andreas Wagner: "Strong promoters are mutationally robust". Briefly...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/
Please share widely!
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
Forgot to add the graphical abstract :)
I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication.
I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026.
Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1
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Começando com a divulgação do EVOSUR 2025 - uma Escola Sul-Americana de Biologia Evolutiva que estamos organizando no Uruguai, em novembro!
As inscrições estão abertas até 15 de agosto.
Se puderem divulgar entre redes e grupos da América do Sul, agradecemos muito!
sites.google.com/view/evosul2...
Why do yeast #de_novo genes have so many transmembrane domains? It's because the genomic regions from which they evolved are super enriched in stretches of A's and T's ! Our work with @timothyfuqua.bsky.social is now published in @jevbio.bsky.social
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Hey y'all, grant-pending, I may be unemployed starting from October. If you have any leads on biotech / postdoc positions in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, I'd greatly appreciate a message. I'm great with Data Analysis, Molecular Biology, and Teaching. (Plz RT!)
More at timothyfuqua.com