@GC_Drew

Bacterium enthusiast & Biologist SNSF Research Fellow @snsf_ch @EawagResearch

 Zürich, Switzerland
Joined January 2013
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What drives microbes to be more (or less) antagonistic to hosts? Check out our new review @kaylacking @emstevens93 to explore some of the driving factors with lots of examples. #symbionts #evolution nature.com/articles/s41579-0…

Microbial evolution and transitions along the parasite–mutualist continuum

Nature Reviews Microbiology - Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects for host organisms. In this Review, Drew, Stevens and King discuss the evolutionary...

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Another computational chapter during my PhD is out on bioRxiv! Using a meta-analysis compiling experimental studies from 1996-2021, we found that how warming impacted pathogen virulence depends on pathogen kingdom and host-pathogen evolutionary history more than host traits!
bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv_ecology20 Apr 2024
Warming-induced excess deaths of infected animals depend on pathogen kingdom and evolutionary history biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_ecology
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Excited to see this out! Was very fun working on this Insight piece with @AuraRaulo
eLife - the journal@eLife1 Jul 2023
Ecological associations among gut bacteria are largely consistent across hosts in a population of wild baboons. elifesciences.org/articles/8…
two baboons siting on a dead branch

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Looking for a PhD position on host-microbe interactions? Consider applying to our international graduate program @MPI_Bio: From Molecules to Organisms! My lab is currently recruiting a student as part of our funded @DFG_Public grant to work on insect-microbe symbioses!
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Microbes can help us recycle plastics, make foods and survive pathogen infections. Sign up to an evening of science + art to find out more. Next Tuesday👉 tinyurl.com/y7s5ve9u Talks from @OxfordBiology @oxfordgeography Supported by @BritishEcolSoc @OxResServ @OxfordUniEvents
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Interested in how microbes can be helpful? Join us for an evening of sci talks & microbial inspired art. 16th May, Oxford // Supported by @BritishEcolSoc @UniofOxford // Free registration - tinyurl.com/y7s5ve9u // #scicomm #sciart #oxfordevents #microbiome #unseenworkers
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Stuart West@StuWest825 Apr 2023
Some viruses do this crazy thing where the genome is split into different fragments, which are then each transmitted separately. We show that this can evolve quite easily by selection for 'cheating'. journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

Cheating leads to the evolution of multipartite viruses

In multipartite viruses, the genome is split into multiple segments, each of which is transmitted via a separate capsid. This seems costly, so why is this form of genome organization so widespread?...

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We hear about the harm microbes cause, but what about all their benefits? From gut microbiomes to plant symbioses, join this event to find out more about these unseen workers and the part they play in our lives 🦠 Register 👉 bit.ly/3KRVAI9
Text reads: Unseen Workers: the essential roles of microbes. Art exhibition & sci talks, May 16th 2023. There is a graphic of a virus and bacteria on a watercolour paint shape.

ALT Text reads: Unseen Workers: the essential roles of microbes. Art exhibition & sci talks, May 16th 2023. There is a graphic of a virus and bacteria on a watercolour paint shape.

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New from @santiago_mf_ @GC_Drew @kaylacking @OxfordBiology in #BiologyLetters => Interactions between insect vectors and plant pathogens span the parasitism-mutualism continuum ow.ly/6NQY50Nh8h9 #vectorborne #plantscience #pathogen
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Dietary changes leave genetic signature in #microbiota: Bacteroides thetatiotaomicron evolves under nutritional changes. #Diet changes increase intraspecies diversity & mutations w/Western-style diet favor host mucus consumption @DapaTanja @KarinaXavierLab cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
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Giles Budge@GilesBudge10 Feb 2023
Are you dab hand at ecology and evolution with experience of field teaching? Then come and join us! @ModEviPol and @ecology_ncl are advertising for a Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution. Get in touch if you are interested! See jobs.ac.uk/job/CXD837/lectur…
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Finally out, thanks to the wonderful coauthors: Isolation, culture and characterization of Arsenophonus symbionts from two insect species reveal loss of infectious transmission and extended host range frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Major initiative in ecological sciences at @LivUni_IVES 3x lectureships and 1x chair available in ecology (defined broadly). Be part of a collegial dept. Great facilities to support your research @CGR_UoL Closes 16th March my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui… my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…
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Philipp Engel@PEngellab6 Jan 2023
In this new preprint @AmelieCabirol shows that a defined community of bee gut bacteria, but not its individual constituents, promotes cognitive performance in honey bees. This suggests that the effect on the host is an emergent property of the community! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A defined community of core gut microbiota members promotes cognitive performance in honey bees

The composition of the gut microbiota has recently been identified as a cause of cognitive variability in humans and animals. Germ-free individuals and individuals exposed to an antibiotic treatment...

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Happy New Year everyone! If you want a new job in molecular mechanisms of symbiosis in 2023, you are in luck, our calls are still open! Deadline 20th Jan! #Wolbachia 🪰🦠👩‍🔧👨‍🔧🧰 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/3… euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/3…
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ZSL Science@ZSLScience13 Dec 2022
The ZSL Scientific Medal is awarded to 3 researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to their field within 15 years of completing their PhD Professor Kayla King, University of Oxford, is awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal 👉bit.ly/3UOllfe 7/12
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EvaNowack@eva_nowack7 Dec 2022
How does Angomonas control the number of its bacterial endosymbionts? New paper from our lab finally out! Great team effort, guys! #endosymbiont #protist #evolution sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Angomonas cells with nuclei and endosymbionts labeled

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Thanks @HeredityJournal!
Heredity@HeredityJournal9 Dec 2022
December issue's #EditorsChoice OA Immune-mediated competition benefits protective microbes over pathogens in a novel host species go.nature.com/3YcyoKv @kaylacking @SuzanneAFord @GC_Drew
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My newly-founded lab in Poland is hiring two postdoctoral researchers :) Deadline 20th January 2023 Come, join us in beautiful Krakow! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/3… euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/3… #postdoc #postdocjobs #symbiosis
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It’s often thought #vectorbourne microbes should cause little harm to their vector host, as they rely on this host for transmission. We explore this idea in our preprint👇 on #plantpathogens, with @kaylacking and the hardwork by @santiago_mf_ 🌿🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.27.5…
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📖Find out more about Arsenophonus apicola sp. nov., a new species isolated from honeybees, in #IJSEM. doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.0054…
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