Announcing a new tenure-track faculty search in microbial systems biology! Come join a fantastic ecosystem of systems biologists and informaticians. Application deadline is Nov 29. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/154339
🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792
The Equity Compass is a new framework to help you reflect on 8 aspects of equity and how to more effectively include young people, especially those of marginalized groups, in STEM fields yestem.org/tools/the-eq...
New Ferris Lab paper on fluctuating selection in a #Mimulus@dianatataru.bsky.socialacademic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Abstract. While hybridization was viewed as a hindrance to adaptation and speciation by early evolutionary biologists, recent studies have demonstrated the
Microbial Evolution section of #MicrobioJ@relenski.bsky.socialwww.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Population bottlenecks can impact the rate of adaptation in evolving populations. On the one hand, each bottleneck reduces the genetic variation that fuels adaptation. On the other hand, each founder ...
Our study on the genetic architecture of a sexual mimicry polymorphism, led by graduate student Tris Dodge, is now out at Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...bsky.app/profile/moll...
How phenotypic diversity originates and persists within populations are classic puzzles in evolutionary biology. While balanced polymorphisms segregat…
Calling all microbiologists in the PNW! Registration is now open for the 2024 American Society for Microbiology Northwest Branch meeting, to be held in Seattle, WA over November 9-10. Register and submit your abstracts at www.nwasm.org!
Among all the bleak news, a tiny bright speck: I was at the OHSU promotion celebration today, and this year, for the first time, more women were promoted to full Professors than men. 💪
Latest preprint from the lab is also the first data paper from @emderrick.bsky.social ! We asked if an experimentally applied selective pressure (the herbicide Roundup) causes genome-wide or gene-specific sweeps in aquatic bacteria in a semi-natural (mesocosm) context. 1/n
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