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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2d

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology

The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

www.evolbio.mpg.de

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 7d

🔊 Fully-funded 4yr PhD studentship with the NWB DTP, working on novel regulators of bacterial nitrogen metabolism 🦠
Primary supervisor: @ariannebabina.bsky.social (University of Glasgow)
Co-supervisors: myself (Queen’s Belfast)+ Dónal Wall (Glasgow)
🌟 please share 🌟

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Arianne Babina

www.gla.ac.uk

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 8d

Great to see the preprint & code out. Large scale within host evolution analysis made easy. Happy that we could contribute to the development. Kudos to all involved including @i-light-maka.bsky.social & @mfenk.bsky.social from the Key lab.

Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 8d

Precisely calling mutations across hundreds of bacterial isolates has been hard, requiring manual filtering and expertise.

Until now, using AccuSNV.

Herui Liao trained an ML model based on our previous meticulously called SNVs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

High-accuracy SNV calling for bacterial isolates using deep learning with AccuSNV

Accurate detection of mutations within bacterial species is critical for fundamental studies of microbial evolution, reconstructing transmission events, and identifying antimicrobial resistance mutati...

www.biorxiv.org

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 12d

Fascinating study delineating plasmid evolution during the last 100 years.

Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 13d

New ERC funded computational postdoc position in my lab! We are looking for someone who will study the genomics of bacterial evolution using samples from experimental evolution and clinical trials. Lots of opportunities for interesting and fun collaboration!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 21d

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)

The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).

Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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James Fellows Yates @jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

❓ Do you develop a #nextflow pipeline for #metagenomics, #metataxonomics, #metatranscriptomics, #metaproteomics, etc?

🧑‍💻 I'm looking for #bioinformatics developers to give demos of their #opensource pipelines to the scientific community in a ‘Meta-*omics Nextflow pipeline community exhibition […]

Original post on genomic.social

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 23d

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de.

Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions.

www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 26d

We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.

We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.

Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 12

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · May 27

The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026!

Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠

Save the dates ✅

Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!

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Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share!

More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Aug 11

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage

A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria,...

www.cell.com

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Aug 11

Take a look at the open access publication to dig deeper into our natural selection and transmission inferences or check out our press release for a brief summary www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/livestock-in...

Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known only from ancient DNA, this enigmatic ‘LNBA plague’ lineage has left scientist...

www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Aug 11

The paper is the result of a collaboration with experts from across the globe. I’d like to highlight my resilient student @i-light-maka.bsky.social as well as T Hermes, P Kosintsev, D Kim, @billhanage.bsky.social, A Herbig, C Jeong & @christinawarinner.bsky.social. It was a pleasure working together

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Aug 11

First paper of the Key lab is out! We present the first prehistoric Y. pestis genome from a domesticated animal - a sheep - providing evidence that domestication elevated human infection risk with plague thousands of years ago. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Jul 22

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome.

See thread for more information and reach out!

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congrats Lisa and team.

Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

Finally online!
Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections.
rdcu.be/ewwrG

Non-antibiotics disrupt colonization resistance against enteropathogens

Nature - Non-antibiotic drugs from a wide range of therapeutic classes can alter the ability of gut commensals to resist invasion by enteropathogens, a previously underappreciated side effect of...

rdcu.be

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · Apr 10

📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩

For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

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MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · Mar 19

We offer 2 PhD Positions in Evolutionary Biology!

1️⃣ Evolutionary Developmental Biology – Craniofacial evolution. (March 31, 2025)

2️⃣ Evolution of Polygenic Traits – Genetic adaptation in Drosophila. (April 30, 2025)

More here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/1639156/Job_...

#PhD #EvoDevo #Genetics

Current job offers

www.evolbio.mpg.de

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Feb 21

We are searching for a new professor in genetics (W3) at Osnabrück University. Come and join us.

👇
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet...

18 FB 5 Professorship (m/f/d) Genetics - Universität Osnabrück

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Feb 24

This highly interdisciplinary & collaborative project was co-led by AK Runge and the paleopathology expert Kamilla Pawlowska. We extend our gratitude to the many collaborating (zoo)archeologists for granting access to their animal specimen collections, making this endeavor possible.

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our results show the powerful and largely untapped potential of combining animal paleopathology and genomics, and demonstrate that pathogen DNA, incl. major zoonotic pathogens like Salmonella enterica, can be identified in the zooarchaeological record from both teeth and paleopathological lesions.

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Feb 24

Despite many of the metagenomic pathogen signatures being very low coverage, we could confidently place two species, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and Streptococcus lutetiensis, within their respective genetic diversity, providing additional evidence for their ancient authenticity.

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Feb 24

Investigating the DNA we find 116 pathogen DNA signatures from 29 different (opportunistic) pathogens, including the zoonotic pathogen Salmonella enterica. Notably, all signals originating from a bone sample, were from bones with evidence of a paleopathological lesion.

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