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It’s finally starting to feel real 🧬🌾 Preprint's out! @daganlab.bsky.social we asked: when does a plasmid stop being “accessory”? In Pantoea agglomerans, LPP1 promotes wheat-root colonization and is deeply integrated with chromosomal gene regulation and metabolism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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📢 We have an open PhD position to study the evolution of antibiotic resistance plasmids! Ad and Application (English below): jobs.uni-kiel.de/jobposting/8... Candidates who read the recommended papers (see ad) will be well positioned to prepare a strong application. Deadline: 6. Septermber 2026.

Gloves are off! TODAY WE RELEASE THE 1% A list of the year’s very best papers 👇 (see thread)

Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)

Photosynthetic bacteria helped shape Planet Earth. Among them cyanobacteria—microbes that produced the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere & made complex life possible. They have captivated scientists for decades by offering insights into how life evolved from single cells into multicellular organisms.

We will be advertising soon a PhD position in this consortium. Interested candidates (experimental/computational) are welcome to informally reach out to Tal Dagan. Practical experience (e.g., MSc thesis) in microbial genetics or molecular evolution (with programming) is a prerequisite.

Funding for new Leibniz ScienceCampus on AMR evolution at FZB Borstel and Kiel, with several open PhD positions! Incl @daganlab.bsky.social @bramkamplab.bsky.social @fzborstel.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de www.uni-kiel.de/de/detailans...

New preprint! We show that conjugation accelerates the segregation of #plasmid alleles -> horizontal transfer is a route for allele segregation in MGE evolution. Led by Lisa Hartmann, with @mariosanter.bsky.social &Nils Hülter. Naturally, reviewed by @qedscience.bsky.social! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Finally out from @daganlab.bsky.social! 🌱🦠🧬 Evolution of the Plant-Associated Pantoea was Accompanied by Plasmid Domestication Events url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Wonderful update on the exciting research during our annual Metaorganism CRC retreat, incl. fantastic guest talks by Chris Voolstra and Tommi Vatanen. Many thanks for all contributions! @crc1182.bsky.social @reefgenomics.bsky @daganlab.bsky.social www.metaorganism-research.com/news/crc-118...

Open W2-Professorship in Plant Genetics at CAU Kiel. See details in the link (English below the German text). Deadline: 19.10.2025. Join our community of evolutionary biologists on the coast of the Baltic sea. www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

Happy to introduce SegMantX. Analyzing #plasmid we find that most duplications are MGE-driven. Additional use cases include detection of DNA transfer between replicons and examination of plasmid sequence similarity. Try it out! doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Please RT: We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/... Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details. @spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

A call for W 3 (full) professorship in Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology is now open at our department. Join our community of evolutionary biologists! Excellent facilities and scientific environment! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

W 3-Professorship in Benthic Biogeochemistry www.nature.com/naturecareer... An attractive position at our neighbor institute GEOMAR in Kiel!

Dear colleagues, even if you are short in time, take a look at Figure 5B. Quote from the discussion: "First and foremost, we need to separate the different tasks required of a just accountability system: detection, investigation, and sanctioning."

Happy to finally share this! Read here about the best strategy the the persistence of low-copy plasmids. @mariosanter.bsky.social @iwangtoknow.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

This is still open for another week or so! Please apply :)

📣 🥳 🧑‍💻 Our department is hiring: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark Deadline June 1st Thanks for sharing! mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

An awesome position in a super enabling institute. Join us in Kiel!

Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Another step closer to our new #research building on #translational #evolutionary #biology at @uni-kiel.de. Thanks to everyone involved in the realization of this fantastic new research environment www.gmsh.de/pressemittei...

Last week to apply! Deadline: 27.3.25.

Segmental duplications are challenging to detect? Try SegMantX, a local alignment chaining tool to detect diverged #duplications. Applied to enterobacterial plasmids, it uncovers MGE's role in #plasmid #evolution & #antibiotic resistance amplification. Read here: t.co/akfYUYRTdd

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)

Kiel University offers 7 PhD positions in "Translational Evolutionary Research" focused on applying evolutionary principles to real-world problems. Apply by March 27, 2025: https://transevo.de/ #gradstudent

We have an open position PhD position in a project aiming to develop novel methodologies for phylogenomic reconstruction of plasmid evolution. See details and how to apply in the Ad. Candidates who will review the relevant literature (see Ad) have a higher chance to write a successful application.

🆕Read my short perspective on @daganlab.bsky.social's intriguing @currentbiology.bsky.social paper that examined plasmid-mediated gene mobilisation by comparing plasmid cargoes with chromosomal sequences across almost 2000 isolates, now in Trends in Microbiology 💻💫🧬 #MicroSky

Colibactin is deeply studied in human cells due to its involvement in colorectal cancers, yet far less is known in the context of microbial communities. Our first study with @daganlab.bsky.social revealed self-inflicted DNA-damage in colibactin producers (2/9) genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

We are looking for a #Postdoc (m/f/d) with expertise in cell culture/immunology in the Bacterial Infection Ecology Lab @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social to study how gut microbiota manipulate their host landscape and to advance microbiome-based therapies. Apply here: bit.ly/4eFgQO1

W3-Professorship opening at GEOMAR Kiel with focus on interactions in marine pelagic ecosystems. Please RT.

Applications are open for the Microbial Population Biology GRS and GRC! The GRS is a fun day for grad students and postdocs to network before the full GRC starts, and is co-chaired this year by me and Laura Suttenfield Get your applications in by Jan 15! #evosky 🦠🧪 www.grc.org/microbial-po...

1 more week to apply! A PhD and a postdoc project on the genomic basis of host-microbiome coevolution in the Schulenburg lab

W 3-Professorship in Marine Pelagic Ecology Deadline 08. December 2024 by Kiel University and GEOMAR www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/w-3-aussc... www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

Two PhD positions for #plasmid evolution research are open in our group: 1) Computational evolutionary microbiology and 2) Microbial evolutionary genetics. Application deadline: 10.3.24. Details in evoldir: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Our Collaborative Research Center on the Origin and Function of Metaorganisms was just approved for another 4-years funding period. Just wonderful to continue our work with fantastic colleagues at Kiel University and partner institutions! @daganlab.bsky.social @utehentschel.bsky.social

From #plasmid to #mitochondria and #plastid, extra-chromosomal genetic elements share many properties of their evolutionary dynamics. Great work by Marina Khachaturyan