DaganLab
@daganlab.bsky.social
Evolutionary microbiology research group, Kiel University, Germany
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Finally out from @daganlab.bsky.social! 🌱🦠🧬 Evolution of the Plant-Associated Pantoea was Accompanied by Plasmid Domestication Events url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Evolution of the Plant-Associated Pantoea was Accompanied by Plasmid Domestication Events
Abstract. Plasmids are important drivers of evolutionary transformations and ecological adaptation in prokaryotes. Plasmids supplying the host with benefic
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November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Finally out from @daganlab.bsky.social! 🌱🦠🧬 Evolution of the Plant-Associated Pantoea was Accompanied by Plasmid Domestication Events url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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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...
CRC 1182 Retreat 2025
The 11th CRC 1182 Retreat was held from October 8-10 at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre in Kiel. Our members presented the current state of research in the different sub-projects and discussed their plans...
www.metaorganism-research.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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...
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de
October 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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...
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...
SegMantX: a novel tool for detecting DNA duplications uncovers prevalent duplications in plasmids
Abstract. Segmental duplications play an important role in genome evolution via their contribution to copy-number variation, gene-family diversification an
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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...
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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
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
Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology
As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...
www.fz-juelich.de
October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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
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...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
W 3 professorship in Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology - Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) job with Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | 12844416
Kiel University aims to attract more qualified women to professorship positions. The Institute of Zoology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural...
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
W 3-Professorship in Benthic Biogeochemistry www.nature.com/naturecareer...
An attractive position at our neighbor institute GEOMAR in Kiel!
An attractive position at our neighbor institute GEOMAR in Kiel!
W 3-Professorship in Benthic Biogeochemistry - Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) job with Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | 12842249
Kiel University and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel aims to attract more qualified women to professorships. The Faculty of Mathemat...
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
W 3-Professorship in Benthic Biogeochemistry www.nature.com/naturecareer...
An attractive position at our neighbor institute GEOMAR in Kiel!
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."
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
reeserichardson.blog
August 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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...
The combination of active partitioning and toxin-antitoxin systems is most advantageous for low-copy plasmid fitness - Nature Communications
Effe et al. evaluate how specific plasmid traits influence plasmid fitness; they provide mechanistic insight into the persistence of large conjugative plasmids, including those that disseminate antibi...
doi.org
August 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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...
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This is still open for another week or so! Please apply :)
🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩
This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer.
Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF
This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer.
Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is still open for another week or so! Please apply :)
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📣 🥳 🧑💻 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-...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark
Deadline June 1st
Thanks for sharing!
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
mbg.au.dk
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📣 🥳 🧑💻 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-...
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!
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
April 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An awesome position in a super enabling institute. Join us in Kiel!
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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...
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...
Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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...
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...
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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...
www.gmsh.de/pressemittei...
Neues Evolutionsforschungszentrum am Bremerskamp nimmt Gestalt an
Im Center for Fundamental Research in Translational Evolutionary Biology (CeTEB) werden ab 2027 Forschungsprojekte zur Evolutionsforschung bearbeitet. Heute wurde gemeinsam mit den Handwerkern das Ric...
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March 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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...
www.gmsh.de/pressemittei...
Last week to apply! Deadline: 27.3.25.
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.
7 PhD positions in Translational Evolutionary Research available @uni-kiel.de
Application deadline is March 27, 2025
Please spread the word!
www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...
Application deadline is March 27, 2025
Please spread the word!
www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...
March 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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
March 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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
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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
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
March 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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
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)
Persistence of large conjugative plasmids relies on the combination of active partitioning and addiction mechanisms
Extrachromosomal and mobile genetic elements, including transposable elements, plasmids, and accessory chromosomes, are found across all domains of life. The replication and segregation of elements in...
www.biorxiv.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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)
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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
February 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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.
7 PhD positions in Translational Evolutionary Research available @uni-kiel.de
Application deadline is March 27, 2025
Please spread the word!
www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...
Application deadline is March 27, 2025
Please spread the word!
www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...
February 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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.
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🆕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
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes
Plasmids are vehicles for horizontal gene transfer between cells, but they also exchange
genes with associated chromosomes in a process termed 'intracellular mobility'. I
discuss a recent article by K...
www.cell.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:30 PM
🆕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
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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...
genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
Colibactin leads to a bacteria-specific mutation pattern and self-inflicted DNA damage
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
genome.cshlp.org
December 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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...
genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
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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
November 19, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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
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W3-Professorship opening at GEOMAR Kiel with focus on interactions in marine pelagic ecosystems. Please RT.
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/...
November 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
W3-Professorship opening at GEOMAR Kiel with focus on interactions in marine pelagic ecosystems. Please RT.
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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...
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...
2025 Microbial Population Biology (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Microbial Population Biology (GRS) will be held in Andover, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 14, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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...
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...