As a physicist transitioning to microbial ecology and evolution, The Gene, an intimate history, by Siddhartha Mukherjee was an amazing read - informative and unputdownable!
My review here: kaumudiprabhakara.github.io/book%20revie...
A new preprint! Data from a huge experiment by @prczhaoyansong.bsky.social show that similar microbial communities diverge depending on whether the carbon source is glucose or its polymer, cellulose. Diversity is comparable, but biomass, functions and taxonomy differ:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Kaumudi Prabhakara
Kaumudi Prabhakara
🧬 EvolCompGen presents: Michael Barnett on the Experimental Evolution of Evolvability
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Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome.
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