5,000-Year-Old Bacterium Found in Ice Is Resistant to Antibiotics.

A team of researchers has identified an ancient bacterium frozen for approximately 5,000 years in the Scărișoara Ice Cave, Romania, exhibiting remarkable resistance to several antibiotics currently used in medicine.

Read more: https://omniletters.com/5000-year-old-bacterium-found-in-ice-is-resistant-to-antibiotics/

#AntibioticResistance #AntimicrobialResistance #AncientBacteria #MicrobialEvolution #FrontiersInMicrobiology #Psychrobacter #IceCaveResearch

🦠 Antibiotic apocalypse alert! Researchers trace mobile gene spreading pan-resistance across bacteria. Time to sound the alarm on superbugs! 🚨 #AntibioticResistance #MicrobialEvolution #ResearchBreakthrough https://emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily

🧬 Bacterial genomes are wild! Gene transfer can resurrect lost DNA regions, challenging everything we knew about microbial evolution. Nature's remix game is strong! 🦠 #Genomics #MicrobialEvolution https://emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily

Bacteria under stress don’t break—they evolve. A new study reveals how energy crises help E. coli become superbugs. #AntibioticResistance #MicrobialEvolution #Bioenergetics

https://geekoo.news/e-coli-on-the-edge-of-evolution/

🦠 Bacteria on the move! 🏃‍♀️ Collective migration lets E. coli populations adapt without genetic changes - nature's ultimate survival hack! 🧬 Rapid phenotype shuffling = microbial resilience goals. #MicrobialEvolution #AdaptiveStrategies https://emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily

Exciting update for biologists! #SynTracker introduces a fresh perspective on genome data and microbial communities, revealing structural variations for in-depth species-specific analysis. Delve deeper into the data: https://t.ly/vbxVG
@natureportfolio.bsky.social #Research #MicrobialEvolution #MPG

Many thanks to everyone who attended this year’s WSS-Paleobiotechnology colloquium on Monday!🙌
Our guests and experts gave us some truly inspiring insights into their exciting research in the fields of microbial #paleogenomics and the emerging field of #paleobiotechnology!🧡

#aDNA #ancientDNA #NaturalProducts #MicrobialEvolution #Evolution

@jfy133

📢We are happy to announce the second WSS-Palaeobiotechnology colloquium on ’Genomic Evolution of Microbial Functions: past to present’ on January 22, 2-4 pm!🧬

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to meet your science heroes and dive into the world of microbial paleogenomic research and the emerging field of paleobiotechnology!🙌

👉All infos here: https://leibniz-hki.de/en/event/genomic-evolution-of-microbial-functions-past-to-present.html
or contact @jfy133 for further information

#aDNA #ancientDNA #NaturalProducts #MicrobialEvolution #Evolution

#Phages are key drivers of #MicrobialEvolution, but many #phage genes are poorly understood. @denish_piya @AdamArkinLab @vivek_mutalik &co use arrayed genome-wide #CRISPRi to map gene the essentiality landscape in the iconic coliphages λ & P1. #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3uLtzgU

ASM is now taking session proposals for the 2024 Microbe meeting in Atlanta, Georgia

#ASM #Microbiology #MicrobialEvolution #MicrobialEcology #Phage #Phages #Bacteria

https://asm.org/Events/ASM-Microbe/Session-Proposals?_zs=eKArl&_zl=bePd2

👀 #MicrobialEvolution #GRC #MicroPopBio

Evolution of a minimal cell (!) by Jay Lennon and co-authors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06288-x

#Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #EEB #microbiology #MicrobialEvolution

Happy to see the first experimental project I led finally out in the world! With Jeremy Moore, Sydney Olsen, and Mike Travisano

We combined experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to ask: do bacteria evolve to swim away from phages?

1/n

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.29.538831

#microbiology #evolution #ecology #phages #phage #bacteria #MicrobialEvolution #MicrobialEcology

"Infection leaves a genetic and functional mark on the gut population of a commensal bacterium"

Led by Caroline Tawk from Andy Goodman's lab

#microbiome #evolution #MicrobialEvolution

https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(23)00156-7

I just released gcplyr v1.5.0 on github.

gcplyr is an #RStats package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analyses of #microbial growth curve data

https://mikeblazanin.github.io/gcplyr/

v1.5.0 includes:
- fixes for critical bugs in derivative calculation
- improved handling of NA values, including several new functions
- new function for linear interpolation
- new args when calculating area under the curve

#microbiology #MicrobialEcology #MicrobialEvolution #ggplot2 #tidyverse #dplyr #data

I *should* be writing my dissertation...

Instead I just released gcplyr v1.3.0 on github

gcplyr is an #RStats package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analyses of #microbial growth curve data

v1.3.0 includes:
- new methods to calculate lag time and doubling time
- improved warnings for common situations
- improved documentation

https://mikeblazanin.github.io/gcplyr/

#microbiology #MicrobialEcology #MicrobialEvolution #ggplot2 #tidyverse #dplyr #data

Happy to announce that gcplyr is now available on CRAN!

gcplyr is a package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analyses of bacterial growth curve data

You can install gcplyr in R with:
install.packages("gcplyr")

Learn more at https://mikeblazanin.github.io/gcplyr/index.html

#RStats #microbiology #MicrobialEcology #MicrobialEvolution #ggplot2 #tidyverse #dplyr #microbial #data

🎬 🧫🦠 This amazing time-lapse video shows bacteria-phage coevolution occurring on agar plates over ~6d. Mesmerising visuals, enhanced even more when you read the paper for a glimpse at the underlying evolutionary genetics 😍 #microbiology #journalclub #microbialevolution #phage https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35351-w

Follow @joaoascensao @benjaminhgood for #MicrobialEvolution #Genomics #Evolution #ExperimentalEvolution

Follow @joaoascensao @benjaminhgood for #MicrobialEvolution #Genomics #Evolution #ExperimentalEvolution