"Function-specific epistasis shapes evolutionary trajectories towards antibiotic resistance". Huge parallel experimental evolution effort in E. coli under antimicrobial pressure by @gabypetrungaro.bsky.social at Bollenbach Lab at University of Cologne.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A bit late, but @msrivastava95.bsky.social , @cbank.bsky.social , Suman Das, and Joachim Krug recently released a manuscript on arXiv titled: "Evolution as fitness landscape navigation: Concepts, Measures, and Emerging Questions".
Check out their work here!
arxiv.org/abs/2604.17036
Please join us at this #EMBOEvoEco Workshop on 6-9 October 2026. It is hands down one of my (if not THE) favourite conferences with a real community feeling and it's great for networking! Also, the catering is excellent. :)
Our work characterizing how mutational bias is influenced by the local sequence context beyond trinucleotides is out now @pnas.org! We also showed which motifs are most prone to mutations caused by strand misalignment, revealing several new hotspots! 🧬
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our study comparing promoter existence and emergence in random vs genomic DNA is finally published!!!
TLDR: the E. coli genome has more promoters than random DNA (even in intergenic regions), and promoters emerge ~3x more readily from random DNA than genomic DNA. (1/2)
Join us next Wednesday in Bern! 🌈🚀
astronomyontap.org/event/astron...
doi.org
Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!!
Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Check out my first PhD paper, a model investigating life-history trade-offs and the evolution of sex differences in longevity, just out in @natcomms.nature.com!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Big thanks to Xiang-Yi Li Richter and @lottedevries.bsky.social!
Great to see this out! doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Lead by
@karenbisschop.bsky.social
and Thomas Blankers. It discusses: If you repeat 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬, do you get the same result in terms of fitness? The answer is… not necessarily. Glad to have played a part!
Fitness landscapes are mappings between genotypes, phenotypes, and fitness that shape evolution. In recent years, empirical work and theoretical models have greatly advanced our understanding of how p...
In a 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment, slow- and fast-growing grassland plants exhibit biomass-trait decoupling 1 month after drought, particularly under warmed conditions. This decoupling disappea....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Males and females often live different lengths of time, but why remains unclear. Here, the authors present a theoretical model showing that trade-offs between survival and reproduction, together with ...
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment (now out, but previously posted here as a preprint) with Ville Mustonen, Lutz Becks @jcairns.bsky.social & others. Experiment continues @utu.fi and now 5+ years www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group
Matt Jago
Abstract. The repeatability of evolution is fundamentally important for understanding the origin and diversification of life as well as for developing evol
Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality,
yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain p...
www.pnas.org
Ella Rees-Baylis
Gerard Martínez-De León
Meike Wortel
Want to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding questions in #ecology and #evolution? Join us 6-9 October 2026 for the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop at @events.embl.org in beautiful Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract submission deadline is June 30 - submit one now!
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Happy Pride month
PhD candidate @lorhab.bsky.social will also be speaking at the next "Astronomy on Tap Bern" on Wed, the 10th of June at Stellwerk.
Scan the QR-code in the image if you want to participate!
