Tag Archives: bacteria

Paper Out: Prokaryote genome fluidity is dependent on effective population size

Posted on April 6, 2017 by An Bollenessor

Last year, I had the pleasure to host (now Dr.) Nadia Andreani from the University of Padua in Italy for a six-month visit in 2015. She did lab work on blue, food-spoiling Pseudomonas but we also did a population genomics … Continue reading →

Posted in Lab Visitor, paper out! | Tagged bacteria, Elze Hesse, genomes, genomic fluidity, ISME J, ISME Journal, meta-analysis, Michiel Vos, Nadia Andreani, paper out, population genomics | Leave a comment

paper out: Adaptation in Natural Microbial Populations

Posted on December 29, 2015 by An Bollenessor

A review paper by Britt Koskella (now at Berkeley) and myself recently came out ‘adaptation in natural populations’; I have lazily copied the Abstract below: Although their diversity greatly exceeds that of plants and animals, microbial organisms have historically received … Continue reading →

Posted in paper out!, Uncategorized | Tagged adaptation, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, bacteria, Britt Koskella | 1 Comment

Rates of lateral gene transfer: high but why?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by An Bollenessor

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 →

Posted in paper out! | Tagged Adam Eyre-Walker, bacteria, lateral gene transfer, LGT, Mark van Passel, Matthijn Hesselman, Tim te Beek, Trends in Microbiology | Leave a comment

Is every bacterium everywhere?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by An Bollenessor

I posted some excerpts from a paper in progress a while back (How many species of bacteria are there? and Bacteria vs. Animals). Here another post on the question “Is every bacterium everywhere?” (then I will stop and just link … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, cool science, random | Tagged bacteria, biogeography, Will Stahl-Timmins | 1 Comment

Paper out: Improvement in Staphylococcus and Bacillus strain differentiation by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry profiling by using microwave‐assisted enzymatic digestion

Posted on August 6, 2014 by An Bollenessor

Quite a mouthful this title! It is in general a bit of an outlier paper for me, but I am very happy to have been involved. I have been interested in MALDI-TOF (matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry) as a … Continue reading →

Posted in paper out! | Tagged Bacillus, bacteria, Brno, CEITEC, Ines Mandic-Mulec, MALDI-TOF, Masaryk University, matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry, Ondrej Šedo, Polonca Štefanic, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Zbynek Zdráhal | Leave a comment

Bacteria vs. Animals

Posted on June 25, 2014 by An Bollenessor

I mentioned a manuscript in a recent post written together with ECEHH colleague Will Stahl-Timmins on ‘The Secret Lives of Bacteria’. In this post, I wanted to highlight one of the figures from this paper highlighting the relationship between mass, … Continue reading →

Posted in cool science, random | Tagged bacteria, BioNumbers, Blue Whale, Bottlenose Dolphin, Chlamydomonas, Dictyostelium, ECEHH, generation time, genome size, human, manuscript, Mark van Passel, mass, mosquito, Will Stahl-Timmins | 1 Comment

How many species of bacteria are there?

Posted on May 16, 2014 by An Bollenessor

I am currently working on a manuscript on the ‘Secret Lives of Bacteria’ together with my ECEHH colleague Will Stahl-Timmins. Will is a graphic designer and science communicator who does a lot of great work making potentially ‘dry’ science accessible … Continue reading →

Posted in cool science | Tagged bacteria, ECEHH, manuscript, Seeing is Believing, species diversity, Will Stahl-Timmins | 5 Comments