🎉 Exciting milestone … my first PhD paper has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Biology! 🥳
Not all winter warming is equal: steady, mild winters increase activity and can cause molecular damage, but short, warm spells have little effect on wall lizards 🦎
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!
This is part of a wider BBSRC/NSF-funded US-UK-Panama collaboration with Leon Grayfer at GWU, @briangratwicke.bsky.social at the Smithsonian & others. Stay tuned for future postdoc roles at Bangor and GWU from this grant!
We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders.
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
🚨Job alert!!🚨
I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC.
Deadline: 8 July 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/p...
Join me, @aaronc-research.bsky.social and @amyellison.bsky.social at @meebangor.bsky.social to explore how species-specific skin microbiomes shape variation in amphibian responses to chytrid.
Looking for experience in microbial ecology / host–microbe interactions / metagenomics / bioinformatics.
With me, @amyellison.bsky.social @briangratwicke.bsky.social, Louise Barwell,
@lancasterlt.bsky.social & @gretabocedi.bsky.social.
@meebangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
First post! New paper in Infection & Immunity.
We asked: what do #probiotics do to microbiome & immune system?
They do more to microbiome than immune system, but depended on probiotic & effects fleeting with cocktail impacts different than individual strains.
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
📢 NEW GENOME ALERT
In #G3journal, @owengosborne.bsky.social et al. present a high-quality genome assembly and high-density linkage map of Silene uniflora, a hermaphroditic species that is emerging as an important model for rapid adaptation to human disturbances. buff.ly/dnhnUDF