4th year biology major from IISERM here looking for masters thesis position. My interests lie in microbial evolution preferably questions related to origin and evoln of multicellularity, AMR, adaptation. I am trained in basic molbio lab techniques and bioinfo. Any suggestions on whom can I approach?

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Let me know what you think about privilege in academia.

Im gonna challenge myself with something new from upcoming week ( i.e. tomorrow). I shall upload a short note which shall be related to something I learnt in the day. Apart from helping me with consistency, it might help others too. Meanwhile if u find some error, let me know.

Found on linkedin that Paul Dirac's PhD thesis was handwritten. I would love to write my master's thesis the same way. ( I got a good handwriting✍️) Is it still allowed. Has someone else done it???

Its that season of the year where many students who have appeared IAT are asking about IISER life.It took me 3yrs to realise that science in India is for people who come from privileged family. Just want to get done with my degree and leave this college ASAP.

Saw these purple colored mangoes back in my village. Anyone got any idea which variety it might be.

In the times in which we live maybe there's not a ton of interest in new science results, but we remain intensely proud of this (UPDATED) preprint out of the lab - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yesss

An intuitive visualization of the regulatory layers influencing the stoichiometry of a protein complex.

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You know more than ever I would really like to have a wiki or some other resource listing academic conferences with virtual or hybrid participation

🧩 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

New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Researchers in the Jain lab engineered DNA and RNA-based liquids with programmable properties such as viscosity and elasticity. It's research that could offer insights into how biomolecular condensates assemble within cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab!
Watch the video!
Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky

Very cool new work by @megbehri.bsky.social and William F. McLaughlin:

Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does complex multicellularity emerge? A key step is the invention of cell differentiation, allowing division of labour and spatial patterning. Here's a great review in
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social @wcratcliff.bsky.social
@multicellgenome.bsky.social
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Our new preprint by @nanamikubota.bsky.social shows that P. aeruginosa, and likely many other bacteria carrying filamentous prophages (like V. parahaemolyticus), risk being exploited by these phages in a runaway process that reduces fitness of both host and virus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵