Caio Guilherme Pereira
@caiozero.bsky.social
Research associate @ UT Austin
Plant physiology and functional genomics
Opinions are my own • he/him • 🍉
Plant physiology and functional genomics
Opinions are my own • he/him • 🍉
🚨ALERT🚨 In our new paper, published in Microbiome, we show how host-mediated selection can produce microbiomes that enhance plant fitness under salt stress by up to ~198%. We explore the mechanisms behind these benefits and how our protocol shaped microbial community structure.
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Breeding of microbiomes conferring salt tolerance to plants
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November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
🚨ALERT🚨 In our new paper, published in Microbiome, we show how host-mediated selection can produce microbiomes that enhance plant fitness under salt stress by up to ~198%. We explore the mechanisms behind these benefits and how our protocol shaped microbial community structure.
rdcu.be/eSjbu
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By the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation
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The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
By the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London.
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New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome
Summary · Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biod...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/
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Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition
#ISMEComms
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#ISMEComms
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Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition
Abstract. Understanding how microbial interactions scale with community complexity is key for microbiome engineering and ecological theory. This study inve
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August 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition
#ISMEComms
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#ISMEComms
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Contrasting the Relative Importance of Microbial Generalists and Specialists in Maintaining Assembly Processes and Community Stability
-in Environ Microbiol
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-in Environ Microbiol
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Contrasting the Relative Importance of Microbial Generalists and Specialists in Maintaining Assembly Processes and Community Stability
Schematic diagram of the relative importance of specialists and generalists in community assembly processes and community stability. Compared with the specialists, generalists have greater contributi...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Contrasting the Relative Importance of Microbial Generalists and Specialists in Maintaining Assembly Processes and Community Stability
-in Environ Microbiol
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
-in Environ Microbiol
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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My department has open positions at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), - one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. #PlantSciJobs
Applications close on Thursday 7 August Aussie time
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Applications close on Thursday 7 August Aussie time
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Job Search
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July 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My department has open positions at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), - one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. #PlantSciJobs
Applications close on Thursday 7 August Aussie time
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Applications close on Thursday 7 August Aussie time
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Nice #ISMECommunications review by Estelle Pignon and @yschaerli.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social
Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities
#SpatialStructure #Sociomicrobiology #SynCom
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Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities
#SpatialStructure #Sociomicrobiology #SynCom
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Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities
Abstract. Microbial communities are frequently organized into complex spatial structures, shaped by intrinsic cellular traits, interactions between communi
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June 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Nice #ISMECommunications review by Estelle Pignon and @yschaerli.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social
Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities
#SpatialStructure #Sociomicrobiology #SynCom
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities
#SpatialStructure #Sociomicrobiology #SynCom
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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How do ecological communities respond to pulse perturbations (e.g. storms, wildfires)? We have a solid theory for stable fixed points, but what about cycles, transients, or chaos? In this preprint, we introduce a unified framework for these nonequilibrium cases. 1/7
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May 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
How do ecological communities respond to pulse perturbations (e.g. storms, wildfires)? We have a solid theory for stable fixed points, but what about cycles, transients, or chaos? In this preprint, we introduce a unified framework for these nonequilibrium cases. 1/7
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A 1996 article on the same question 👉🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
May 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A 1996 article on the same question 👉🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The ecoevojobs google doc has crowdsourced postdoc, fixed term faculty, and TT faculty jobs!! ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs 23-24 - Google Drive
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June 13, 2024 at 11:32 AM
The ecoevojobs google doc has crowdsourced postdoc, fixed term faculty, and TT faculty jobs!! ecoevojobs.net
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Join our online course on Network Analysis in R, from May 5-8, to learn essential skills for analyzing network data. Ideal for researchers with R knowledge. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/network-analysis-in-r/ #course
Network Analysis in R
Dates 5th-8th May 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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February 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Join our online course on Network Analysis in R, from May 5-8, to learn essential skills for analyzing network data. Ideal for researchers with R knowledge. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/network-analysis-in-r/ #course
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Bacteria produce an enzyme that functions after they die, to break up proteins and altruistically release nutrients to living cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria encode post-mortem protein catabolism that enables altruistic nutrient recycling - Nature Communications
Processes that occur after death have not received the same level of attention as the mechanisms of life. In this study, the authors show that bacteria have potentially evolved an altruistic trait to ...
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February 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Bacteria produce an enzyme that functions after they die, to break up proteins and altruistically release nutrients to living cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...