Assistant Professor of Applied Physics @Stanford. @benjaminhgood@mstdn.science
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2014
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Excited to share some new work with Layton Rosenfeld (an amazing former intern in our group). Our microbiota can evolve w/in us in real time. Here, we ask how this ongoing evolution influences (or is influenced by) the ecological structure of the surrounding community.
Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in the human gut microbiome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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I am excited to share that I will be starting a lab at @EmoryUniversity this September. We will aim to understand evolution by studying genomes of things ranging from viruses to humans. Looking for talented students and postdocs to do computational genomics. Get in touch! 1/2
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i'm very excited about this work. there were some really striking patterns that i hope we can figure out
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Happy to (belatedly) share a new preprint led by grad students @nastialyulina and @zzzhiru_liu. This paper generalizes some of our earlier work on LD to a new class of summary statistics that aim to quantify the amount of homoplasy (or “scrambling”) produced by recombination.
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These homoplasy metrics can be regarded as a continuous version of the classical 4-gamete test -- in some sense, they try to quantify the degree of linkage *equilibrium* between mutations, rather than the degree of *disequilibrium* measured by traditional metrics like r^2.
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Very happy to announce I’ll be joining the physics dept @UF in the Fall as an assistant professor! Our group will study eco-evo dynamics of marine microbial communities, using theory & data analysis. Will be looking for students & postdocs so definitely reach out if interested.
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The biggest advances in basic research are ones that change our understanding, and so by definition could not have been ones we saw coming. Meaning, if we're playing it right, we should expect the vast majority of research projects to not result in anything useful
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PhD students + postdocs: apply to 2024 #kitpqbio summer course, Mobile Elements in #MicrobialEvolution, at kitp.ucsb.edu/qbio. Deadline ext. to March 24.
Course directors @benjaminhgood @HonourMcCann @PaulTurnerLab @jemersonmicro @richardneher #microbialecology
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🚨 Postdoc position alert! 🔬 Exciting opportunity to join our lab & dive into the world of microbial eco-genomic, collaborating with a fun and innovative team on cutting-edge research🦠lifewp.bgu.ac.il/wp/imizrahi…
apply now: [email protected]
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Please share!
I am looking for a PhD student in Amsterdam, together with @MullaYuval, to study phages in microbial communities.
Interested? Check the job ad to apply or contact me with questions! MSc required, deadline Sept 30.
workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-posit…
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Had a lot of fun working on this project. Would be excited to hear any feedback!
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A new preprint by Alexis Simon "The contribution of gene flow, selection, and genetic drift to five thousand years of human allele frequency change". Alexis's thread follows 1/n
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Excited to share some new work led by Jimmy Ferrare. How do rapidly adapting pop'ns balance short-term selection for fitness & long-term selection for evolvability? We develop a theory to predict how these indirect selection pressures emerge from competition btw linked mutations
Evolution of Evolvability In Rapidly Adapting Populations biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
However, we also find that this greater evolutionary foresight is highly asymmetric: large pop'ns can still greedily select for mutations that lower their rate of adaptation (even to 0!) despite being more willing to weather short-term costs to realize long-term fitness gains.
Jimmy will be presenting his work at the @OfficialSMBE poster session on July 24th. Please stop by and chat with him if you’re interested in learning more!
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ICYMI - I'll be giving a poster spotlight presentation at #ASMicrobe today at 12:20 at the EEB track hub on how antibiotics affect colonization resistance in gut microbiome. Stop by my poster EEB-1114 to learn more!
Excited to present my work at #ASMicrobe this afternoon as a last-minute talk replacement! Come to 352DEF at 2:45-3PM to learn about how antibiotics affect colonization and transmission in the gut microbiome.
