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SMBE 2019 Manchester
This week I attended the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution SMBE meeting held in Manchester. It was my first time at this meeting, and certainly will not be the last, as it had a very interesting programme and was … Continue reading
Paper out: Are pangenomes adaptive or not?
I have been interested in bacterial pan genomes for some time: apart from acquiring mutations in genes shared between strains, bacteria are able to pick up genes (via several Lateral Gene Transfer processes), duplicate genes and also lose genes. These … Continue reading
PhD opportunities
The BBSRC GW4 Universities Doctoral Training Program is currently advertising PhD projects. This is a slightly complicated process, but basically comes down to prospective students picking a project offered by scientists working at participating universities and institutions and applying to … Continue reading
Posted in cool science
Tagged Adam Eyre-Walker, BBSRC, Ben Raymond, Ben Temperton, DTP, Ed Feil, GW4, opportunity, PhD, Sam Sheppard
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Pipelines for bacterial evolutionary genomic analysis meeting in Bath
I attended a small, but very nice meeting last week at the University of Bath. The topic was the development of software to measure all important parameters in bacterial population genomics datasets. It was organized by Daniel Falush, who is … Continue reading
Posted in cool science, going places
Tagged Adam Eyre-Walker, Bath, Daniel Falush, Ed Feil, genomics, Sam Sheppard, STRUCTURE, University of Bath, Xavier Didelot
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Rates of lateral gene transfer: high but why?
I just had a paper out which was an enlightening experience to write. Along with three Dutch co-authors, it was mainly a collaboration with Adam Eyre-Walker at Sussex (see this previous post). The manuscript morphed from a data paper into … Continue reading
Two weeks ago I visited collaborator Adam Eyre-Walker at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Adam and I have been working on a paper exploring what selective forces underly the rate with which bacteria take up new genes, using insights … Continue reading
2013 SGM Autumn Conference
Last week I attended the Society for General Microbiology’s Autumn Conference held this year at the University of Sussex in Brighton (actually just outside of Brighton in Falmer). The main reason for going was the ‘Impact of bacteriophage in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Eyre-Walker, bacteriophage, Brighton, Martha Clokie, odose, phage, SGM, University of Sussex
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ODoSE: a webserver for genome-wide calculation of adaptive divergence in prokaryotes
I just published a paper on a user-friendly webserver for prokaryote genomics analysis with colleagues from the universities of Sussex, Wageningen and Nijmegen. The webserver is available here and the paper is freely accessible at the PLoS ONE website. From … Continue reading
Travelling
It has been a while since I last posted as I have been quite busy travelling (and Cornwall is not exactly centrally located). Two weeks ago Pawel, Tremough colleague Britt Koskella and myself went to visit Martha Clokie and her … Continue reading
Posted in going places
Tagged Adam Eyre-Walker, Britt Koskella, David Gibson, Insomnium, Ivana Gudelj, Martha Clokie, Michael Sieber, Mike Allen, National Marine Aquarium, Pawel Sierocinski, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Exeter, University of Leicester, University of Sussex, Will Gaze
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