School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork 🇮🇪
Microbial Ecology | Microbial Evolution | Gut Microbiome
Pauline Scanlan
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With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
Mart Krupovic
This is very cool: a simple statistical test of dysbiosis, or really any microbiome composition data relative to a reference. Outperforms Bray-Curtis and every other metric, while simultaneously being very simple to compute. Probably would work on RNAseq data too.
Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Being a PI is an intricate juggling act that requires tough decisions – intellectual, financial, strategic. Yet we are expected to navigate these dangerous waters with very little support. The solo PI model is deeply problematic.
My latest blog post #AcademicSky
occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...
Michael Baym
Do you study human microbiomes? Have you used the word "commensal"?
Then this paper was written with you in mind!
It was an absolute pleasure to write this with the incomparable @ginalewin.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🆒 new pub!
Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro -> adaptations selected during infection by @gretazabo.bsky.social & Linus Sandegren
*hypermucoidy evolves via 📈c-di-GMP, overlaps w/ mutations in UTI and wound isolates.
*pleasure to advise this!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this Comment, Cedric Feschotte highlights evidence from diverse lineages showing that transposable elements are key drivers of evolutionary innovation, repeatedly introducing regulatory and coding ...
An overarching goal in microbiome research is to understand how the complex communities
in our bodies contribute to health and disease, and ultimately, we aim to leverage
and control these communities...
journals.asm.org
Biofilm formation on implanted medical devices facilitates infection by the pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae. Here, Zaborskytė et al. use experimental evolution to show that the bacteria rapidly evolve ...
Many thanks to the @microbiologysociety.org for inviting me to give a talk on #Blastocystis during the #microbio26 in Belfast! It was such a great opportunity to share the work of our @blastocystiscost.bsky.social as well! @costprogramme.bsky.social
Heterogeneity in microbial antibiotic responses: genetic basis and within-host evolution
@cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social review by Qingyun Liu and Liang-Dong Lyu (吕亮东)
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Daniel Moser
Prof Jenny Rohn
Great piece and cover @science.org about how our field is uncovering the evolutionary and mechanistic connections between bacterial and eukaryotic immunity !
www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wars-between-microbes-gave-us-key-immune-defenses
Vaughn Cooper
Lily Khadempour
Ratio Percentile Deviation (RPD): A nonparametric, compositionally robust method for measuring the divergence of a microbial sample from a reference dataset https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728224v1
