Excited to be speaking at #Vibrio2026 in Berlin this September!
Abstracts for oral presentation consideration are due June 15. Please share with students, postdocs, colleagues, and fellow Vibriophiles.
Looking forward to a great meeting with the Vibrio community! 🦠
Microbe 2026 is just over, but it's already time to think about ASM Microbe 2027 ! Excited about specific topics, methods, ideas, or microbes ? Then you should consider submitting a session proposal, and help us shape the program ! Any question ? please reach out, we're here to help ☺️
Sad to miss but the lab is well represented ASM Mechanism Discovery Meeting!
Sunil talks metabolic dependency and antagonism: Sat Jun 6, 3:30–3:45 PM, 151AB.
Somok presents resident–invader dynamics under reciprocal antagonism: rapid fire 10:45–11:35 AM + poster MECH-SAT-516.
Any phage ppl at #ASMMicrobe2026 ?
I’ll be a panelist at the Science & Society Lecture on phage therapy & AMR, Sunday June 7, 2026, 4:30 PM, Ballroom AB, Washington D.C.
Will be sharing experience - phagefoundry.org on platform techs needed fo translation
#PhageTherapy #AMR #phagesky #microsky
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology & Evolution are open! Our lab is open to hosting applicants. We link cell-level decision making to ecological outcomes and evolutionary trajectories in microbiomes. Interested or know someone who might be? Let's chat!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
See a brief review summarizing the use of synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) for revealing the ecology of specialized metabolites
[my holiday break writing exercise]
portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
#MicrobiomeEcology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)
Beyond thrilled that our paper ‘Co-migration of hundreds of microbial species over metres drives selection and promotes non-motile hitchhikers’ has been accepted in Nature Communications! 🎉🦠 (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Do you study human microbiomes? Have you used the word "commensal"?
Then this paper was written with you in mind!
It was an absolute pleasure to write this with the incomparable @ginalewin.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
New preprint
“𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝘁𝗼-𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆.”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Using C. elegans as host, we find that bacterial predators (bdellovibrio) act through suppression of host to host transmission of gut-expelled prey
The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
Migration of microbial communities is poorly understood. Here, the authors use a meso-tube assay to show that hundreds of microbial species co-migrate over metre scales via chemotaxis, which restructu...
An overarching goal in microbiome research is to understand how the complex communities
in our bodies contribute to health and disease, and ultimately, we aim to leverage
and control these communities...
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
Thank you for being part of ASM Microbe 2026! Save the date for ASM Microbe 2027, taking place June 22–25 in Chicago. Got big ideas? Session proposals open tomorrow—help shape next year’s program and push the microbial sciences forward. #ASMicrobe asm.social/2XY.
