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Peter Conlin

@peterlconlin

Evolutionary biology, postdoc

 Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2013
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Yuriy Pichugin@ab_in_13 Jan 2025
Nine PhD positions are open at Max Planck Institute. Come to work with me on modeling of the origins of organismic complexity at the onset of multicellular life. Application deadline is January 26.
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Katherine Xue@ksxue19 Nov 2024
Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. kxuelab.com/ 1/2
Welcome!

Welcome!

Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome

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Only 2 weeks left to apply for the position of a permanently employed staff scientist in my group 👇
Christian Kost (@KostChristian) profile pictureChristian Kost@KostChristian20 Jul 2024
Dreamjob alert !!! In my research group, the position of a permanently employed staff scientist is available. The position includes both research and teaching (in German). Please RT Deadline: 25.08.24 More infos: shorturl.at/k9cM7
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Very excited to announce that in my group the post of a senior staff scientist/ group leader is available. The position includes both research and teaching (in German + English). Deadline: 25.08.24 More infos: shorturl.at/k9cM7 Please RT
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Sara Mitri@saramitri11 Jul 2024
We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!
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We are on the look out for postdocs to join the Lieberman Lab at MIT. Areas include: -Connecting bacterial warfare to strain dynamics in vivo -Evolution and transmission of strains in humans -Revisiting role of microbes in acne Take a look at our recent preprints and reach out!
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Excited to announce that I'll be returning to @UF as an Assistant Professor in Microbial Ecology @UF_MCS starting January 2025! My lab at @UFIFAS_FLREC will study how biogeochemical transformations mediated by plant-microbe interactions impact ecosystem function. Stay tuned!
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Hi folks, I’m excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr4 Dec 2023
How does exposure to different hosts affect evolution of bacterial genes on mobile elements? In @MolBioEvol, @livkosterlitz et al use barcode methods to compare adaptive landscapes across species & show alignment enables a form of adaptive “crowdsourcing”🧵academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation...

Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation...

Abstract. Genes that undergo horizontal gene transfer (HGT) evolve in different genomic backgrounds. Despite the ubiquity of cross-species HGT, the effects

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Cuboidal cell packing is a common yet understudied route to multicellularity. In work led by @PineauRozenn and @ozan_g_b, we explore its origin as a multicellular geometry capable of supporting a transition in individuality using fission yeast. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Ethan Linck@ethanblinck27 Jul 2023
I’m recruiting! Looking for 1-2 MS students to join my lab in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University and work on questions related to conservation and population genomics in birds. Thanks for spreading the word—details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evol…
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An exciting new PhD project is available in my group to work on synergistic coevolution. The project will analyse an experiment in which a cooperative interaction evolved between two bacterial strains. Deadline: October 13, 2023 Please RT More details: uni-osnabrueck.de/universita…
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🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Predictive microbial community changes across a temperature gradient

Predictive microbial community changes across a temperature gradient

A central challenge in community ecology is predicting the effects of abiotic factors on community assembly. In particular, microbial communities play a central role in the ecosystem, but we do not...

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Another beautiful movie by the @Tomocubeinc HT-X1. This is the ancestor of the MuLTEE (ace2 delta) yeast. You can see packing-driven group reproduction here. Going back now for higher temporal resolution, with fluorescent probes! @TanFad @MBLScience
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We have a new preprint, showing that living systems can entangle in ways non-living systems can’t. In non-living systems, entanglement only occurs under specific geometric regimes. Not so for growing systems! Given time, most geometries can entangle. doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.13.5…
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Ever wondered about estimating & reporting plasmid conjugation rates? We did too! Excited to share our new paper in Plasmid, where we propose guidelines for estimating & reporting these experiments. authors.elsevier.com/c/1h3ZU… Thread👇
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I wrote about an incredible experiment in which microscopic, single-celled yeast evolved to become multicellular organisms visible to the naked eye, recreating one of evolution’s most pivotal transitions in a lab, in just one year. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments Was Re-created in a Year

One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments Was Re-created in a Year

A unique experiment shows how multicellular organisms might have evolved from single-celled ancestors.

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Curious about multicellular life cycle evolution? Check out the summary of our latest study in cyanobacteria tinyurl.com/37r68faw with @ab_in_ & a yeast study tinyurl.com/5n6c2kf5 by @Ju_Brr & @EvolvingMurray! Big thanks @wc_ratcliff & @peterlconlin for the great dispatch!
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@wc_ratcliff8 May 2023
Replying to @CurrentBiology
@CurrentBiology just published two cool papers on the role of life cycles in the evolution of multicellularity. One by @EvolvingMurray and Julien Barrere, and the other by @Hammerschmidt_K et al. @peterlconlin and I discuss them in this Insight article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25 Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9
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Alison Feder@AlisonFeder9 May 2023
Rapid recombination is an important driver of HIV intra-host evolution. Because recombination requires that multiple viruses co-infect a cell, Elena Romero and I wondered if high viral loads increase HIV's recombination rate. tl;dr: we think they do! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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