Phd Position alert 🚨
Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution.
It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
How do giant mobile elements called ‘Starships’ reshape fungal plant pathogens? Help us computationally model their spread and impact in nature and agriculture!www.uu.nl
Computational modelling at it’s finest, with videos 💜
portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Cool! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42244712/
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈
Bram van Dijk 🏳️🌈
Very excited with the online publication of our modeling work on the evolution of sexual reproduction during obligate endosymbiosis: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... The first publication of Alkmini Zania 🎉; together with Paulien Hogeweg.
Microbes grow in spatially structured communities. Bäcker et al. comprehensively synthesize evidence that spatial organization drives microbial ecological and evolutionary processes across scales. #FEMSMicrobiolRev buff.ly/wceLoPr @bramvandijk.bsky.social
New preprint! We show that conjugation accelerates the segregation of #plasmid alleles -> horizontal transfer is a route for allele segregation in MGE evolution. Led by Lisa Hartmann, with @mariosanter.bsky.social &Nils Hülter. Naturally, reviewed by @qedscience.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.64898/202...
ecoevorxiv.org
portlandpress.com
Abstract. A wide range of microbially produced specialized metabolites (SMs) with bioactivity affecting micro- and macro-organisms has been described. These bioactive compounds are synthesized by enzy...
Analysis of our model shows that the key determinant of the evolution and spread of defense systems in MGEs is the strength of cross-MGE interference. Weakly interfering MGEs would serve as 'MGE banks...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sam von der Dunk
FEMS Journals
DaganLab
doi.org
Curious about the origin of development during the transition to multicellularity?
A very belated preprint alert: bit.ly/4rr2mHU
Reproduction emerges from ecological interactions at the onset of multicellularity.
A short 🧵 with lots of videos...
