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Our group consists of two research groups : Theoretical Biology (headed by Rob de Boer) and Bioinformatics (headed by Berend Snel) at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU

Thrilled that our paper "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities" is out! 🎉🦠🧬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... w/ @paulbrainey.bsky.social, Petros Skiadas, Paulien Hogeweg, @bedutilh.bsky.social

Pleased to see this beautiful paper out. Kudos to @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social who took @stevenquistad.bsky.social data and dug deep, revealing a new phage that erupts to astonishing abundance. As theory predicts, the life of SGEs is fuelled by encounters with new hosts www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New in Science Advances: A bacteriophage stayed genetically stable for months, then evolved rapidly in a new microbial community. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3884217/viru... @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @paulbrainey.bsky.social @uni-jena.de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social

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Proud of @ehauptfeld.bsky.social for receiving the Young Investigator Award by @biosb.bsky.social, in recognition to her PhD achievements in research and education! Very well deserved, and congratulations! @ubc-uu.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Some snaps from trails around the SFU and UBC campuses from the last 2 months. Vancouver is beautiful 😭

I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻 Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share! 🙏

Our preprint on the 'Origins of Eukaryotic Metabolism' is out! Take a look at some of the new findings on the origin of eukaryotic membranes, metabolic integrations between archaeal and bacterial ancestors, and other fascinating prokaryotic interactions during eukaryogenesis. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our research work on using #singlecell co-mapping to study early embryonic development is now published: doi.org/10.7554/eLif....

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A single bacteriophage can dominate microbial communities yet only evolves when migration changes its ecological context.

www.science.org

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities

A single bacteriophage can dominate microbial communities yet only evolves when migration changes its ecological context.

www.science.org

Application deadline coming up: June 7th 🔔 Interested in... 🧐 Fundamental biology? 🧩 Elucidating how evolution works? 🧬 Obtaining new insights from genome sequences? 🫥 Archaea, the least studied domain of life? Join us with an exciting PhD on archaeal genome evolution!

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