Statistical genetics of bacteria, humans etc. Hiring at all levels - do get in touch.
Institute Pasteur Shanghai
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Our paper "An Ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori" was published yesterday in Nature. Thanks to Elise, Roberto, Sarah and our collaborators in Oita, Gothenburg and elsewhere for their hard work. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
We are hiring a postdoc studying the ecological niche of bacterial ecospecies. This interdisciplinary project combines genomics, molecular microbiology and fieldwork on an island near Shanghai. Please forward :). simm.cas.cn/web/rcdw/rczp/ky…
Molassodon! Excited to post my research group's first laboratory project. We identify a phenotype and a putative ecological strategy for the Molassodon ecospecies of Vibrio parahamolyticus, thanks to the hard work of our lab team led by Sarah biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We also identify a convergent intermediate form and are also able to provide details about the molecular and evolutionary assembly of the Molassodon genotype, revealing a key role for lateral flagella glycosylation.
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Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - ranging from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
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Lab page: speidellab.github.io/
So in summary our atlas provides a new way of systematizing prokaryotic life, suggesting that diverse species form ecologically selected clusters.
The convergence in ecospecies differentiation between the two streptococcus species, involving the same genes and gene categories (cell division related), suggest that particular genera find predictable paths for adaptive differentiation.
Delighted to present our Macrogenetics atlas of prokaryotes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is a herculean effort from Chao Yang, which has a previous existence as a preprint first posted in 2018 "why panmictic bacteria are rare?" biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We illustrate this concretely by discovering a third bacterial ecospecies pair in Streptococcus mitis.
Why? Well what happens is that for species which maintain large population sizes for long time periods, natural selection becomes increasingly important in structuring diversity and this generates long range LD.
Finally, we provide an answer to the question of why panmictic bacterial species are rare. A well-mixed bacterial species should have low LD at all genetic distances, but there are no such species. Instead we find that the most diverse species have intermediate long-range LD.
And there are curious findings too, like the fact that the genome fluidity of rod shaped bacteria is more than double that of spherical ones. What can you see in the data? Or what would you like to see? Let us know!
We are able to use the population genetic data to address classic questions such as what determines the number of genes? It seems to be a balance between deletion bias and selection favoring increasing genome complexity.
