Check out our pre-print led by the fantastic Massimo Amicone, collaborating with the Bollenbach lab! tinyurl.com/4h9p8mfb We build a simple intuition on how ecological interactions affect resistance evolution by expanding evolutionary rescue theory and testing it with two large sets of experiments
Fantastic story how bacteria exploit a host pathway to dissolve plant tissue and obtain nutrients 🤯
Uncovering these mechanisms about plant-pathogen interactions is so cool!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It was a lot of fun to work with this group of ECRs from the NCCR Microbiomes network - especially when the thinking and writing happens in a cosy Swiss chalet 🏔️
Big thanks to all authors, especially Margaret Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social & @annasophieweiss.bsky.social for pushing it to the end 🙌
Do you have an interest in quantitative microbiology and interdisciplinary research? I'm recruiting a UK PhD student to develop high-throughput ecological screens to help us understand how chemical inputs impact microbial ecosystems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
1/ With @maxencevincent.bsky.social, we ask: when single bacterial cells behave differently under stress, is it really just “noise”?
Read more @cp-cellreports.bsky.social :
Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...)
Who would have thought, five years ago when I first looked at P-bodies under the microscope, that this journey would lead here. 🔬
Very happy to see this work finally out in #ScienceAdvances. Proud of this collaborative effort and grateful to everyone involved. 👏🏻🎉
Happy to finally share these results:
Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa
#microsky
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Thrilled to see this article out! 🎉 It's a roadmap for starting microbial ecologists with key concepts in community ecology, their history and application to microbiomes #NicheTheory #TrophicLevels #KeystoneSpecies #Succession #Metacommunities 🤩 What I wish I'd had when I got into microbial ecology
Also excited to share our latest collaboration with @micsysecolab.bsky.social. Divvya Ramesh showed how spatial structure can limit evolution of metabolic dependencies.
Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
PhD Project - Identifying how chemicals shape microbial diversity through high-throughput ecological screens at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
Plant cell walls harbor vast carbohydrate reserves, yet how pathogens unlock them remains unclear. We show that the citrus canker pathogen Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) mobilizes cell wall suga...
Bonus image from our initial writing retreat in Guggisberg from September 2024!
Oliver Meacock
🚨 Paper out now in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 🌱🦠
Pathogens don’t just target protein degradation—they also hijack host translation.
"Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection" ⚖️♻️
led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social
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Excited to share our new paper led by Divvya Ramesh: Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities 🧫
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Sara Mitri
Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme...
We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field
In microbial communities, evolutionary processes can lead to loss of biosynthetic pathways, creating metabolic dependencies. The Black Queen Hypothesi…
Abstract. Many microbiological outcomes are shaped by the determinants of community composition, including the factors that allow pathogens to invade healt
