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The lab has several new papers out led by fantastic postdocs, with important contributions from other lab members and collaborators. Each paper focuses on different aspects of Wolbachia spread and effects on hosts. The first paper was led by Dylan Shropshire and is now in Genetics.
Elder Taylor
Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)!
The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us!
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Applications due 8/1.
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...
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Just to up this #microsky #microbiomesky #IDsky deadline extended until 1st of July 2026.
Come and join us a a (senior) lecturer in microbiome sciences, an academic position in a collegiate school with great facilities and opportunities!
Looking for a #postdoc outside the US, focusing on gut microbiome, AMR dynamics & phage-bacteria interactions. Bridging wet lab and computational approaches🦠👩💻. Hartmann Lab, Northwestern University, defending late 2026. Boosts appreciated 🙏🧫🧪
#microbiome #metagenomics #MicroSky
Brandon S. Cooper
www.uu.nl
I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉
Introducing ArchaeaHQ
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology
What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)
New paper alert!! We just discovered a new filament system that is widespread exclusively within CPR bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Short thread below. 🦠🔬🚀
Folddisco is now published @natbiotech.nature.com. It’s a fast motif search for similar 3D DISCOntinuous residues like catalytic sites or zinc fingers across the entire protein universe.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💾 folddisco.foldseek.com
🌐 https://search.foldseek.com/folddisco
The Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) represents a bacterial superphylum estimated to include between 15–50% of all bacterial species, yet CPR bacteria remain challenging to culture and have been primar...
