@evokerr

evolutionary biologist, microbe enthusiast, math junkie, dog lover, caffeine repository Professor of Biology, University of Washington (he/him)

 Seattle
kerrlab.org/
Joined August 2013
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🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Predictive microbial community changes across a temperature gradient

A central challenge in community ecology is predicting the effects of abiotic factors on community assembly. In particular, microbial communities play a central role in the ecosystem, but we do not...

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I am so excited to read this! I love how each of these authors thinks!
Benjamin Kerr@evokerr24 Mar 2023
What prevents multicellular organisms from evolving back to their ancestral state of unicellularity? In a new preprint, @peterlconlin, Heather Goldsby and colleagues show how division of labor can lead to the entrenchment of multicellularity. 🧵(1/14) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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SSE@sse_evolution25 May 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Sally Otto, recipient of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award! Don't miss her award talk on Friday, June 2 at virtual #Evol2023! evolutionsociety.org/news/di… @sarperotto @Evol_mtg
Text: Sarah Sally Otto, 2023 Society for the Study of Evolution Lifetime Achievement Award. Headshot of Sally Otto.

ALT Text: Sarah Sally Otto, 2023 Society for the Study of Evolution Lifetime Achievement Award. Headshot of Sally Otto.

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I have some preliminary good news, the short of it is that I will be hiring a postdoc soon to work on a collaborative project with Dr. Seunghyun Sim (an amazing chemist) to evaluate the role of spatial structure in community function using bio-printing and directed evolution.
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Alison Feder@AlisonFeder9 May 2023
Rapid recombination is an important driver of HIV intra-host evolution. Because recombination requires that multiple viruses co-infect a cell, Elena Romero and I wondered if high viral loads increase HIV's recombination rate. tl;dr: we think they do! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Will Ratcliff
@wc_ratcliff8 May 2023
Replying to @CurrentBiology
@CurrentBiology just published two cool papers on the role of life cycles in the evolution of multicellularity. One by @EvolvingMurray and Julien Barrere, and the other by @Hammerschmidt_K et al. @peterlconlin and I discuss them in this Insight article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Oana Carja@oanacarja8 May 2023
🥳We have a new preprint out on the very difficult problem of understanding rates of evolution in systems with messy, complex spatial structure. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Beyond the limit of single mutational dynamics, how does the topology of a system shape its evolution?
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Do you want to learn how transmissible cancers evolve and spread through the environment in a creative and supportive research environment? Join us! The Metzger Lab at PNRI is hiring! (Please RT!) pnri.org/about/careers/resea…
Soft-shell clam with lab members digging clams in the background.

ALT Soft-shell clam with lab members digging clams in the background.

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Alison Feder@AlisonFeder6 Mar 2023
Just a reminder that there are <2 weeks to submit abstracts for SMBE 2023 (due March 15)! Working in somatic/cancer evolution? Reminder that @robjohnnoble and I are organizing a "Cancer evolution across scales" symposium and we'd love to hear about your science!
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Happy New Year, microbial ecologists and evolutionary biologists! We are now accepting abstracts for the MicroPopBio GRC & GRS. Trainees will be considered for either short talks or poster presentations for the GRS! grc.org/microbial-population… @TanushJagdish @vscooper @RosieRedfield
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World Octopus Day comes round again. Today is perhaps a much bigger day for dolphins, as it happens. But - here's an edited collection of excerpts from 'Other Minds,' published a few years back by @scientificamer. scientificamerican.com/artic…

The Mind of an Octopus

Eight smart limbs plus a big brain add up to a weird and wondrous kind of intelligence

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Jamie Hall@jpjhall3 Oct 2022
🆕 I’m recruiting a postdoc! This is for a new @The_MRC project with @UKHSA and @jymaillard, looking at Pseudomonas evolution, ecology, and horizontal gene transfer in the hospital sink drain microbiome. Deadline 28th October. 🧵 my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…
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storiesofWiN@storiesofwin28 Sep 2022
New profile!! Dr. Z Yan Wang (@ZYanWang) discusses octopuses, bumblebees, & striving for change as a university professor 🐙🐝 Check out her profile below & listen to the interview on our podcast! #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM storiesofwin.org/profiles/20…

Dr. Z Yan Wang on octopuses, bumblebees, and striving for change as a university professor —...

studies the neurobiology of aging, senescence, and death

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New work from our group out in @JEvBio led by Dr. Kaitlyn Kortright! We used deep sampling of experimentally evolving communities of P aeruginosa and phage to find evidence for both arms race and fluctuating selection dynamics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Arms race and fluctuating selection dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria coevolving with...

We tested the ability for Pseudomonas aeruginosa to coevolve with phage OMKO1 during 10 passages in the laboratory. Also, we sampled these co-evolved microbes to test occurrence of arms-race versus...

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At last: presenting the first compound that directly inhibits the critical evolvability factor (Mfd), preventing the evolution of drug resistance across highly divergent bacterial pathogens. Proud of everyone who contributed! 8 years of work… so worth it! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A small molecule that inhibits the evolution of antibiotic resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) rapidly develops against almost all available therapeutics. New antibiotics target essential processes in bacteria but fail to address the root of the problem: mutage...

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This just came in the mail today. Anything by John Stillwell is worth reading, so I’m really looking forward to dipping into his latest.
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Even more faculty positions at @UWBiology at @UW in Seattle! We are searching for 2 Assistant Teaching Professors, who will contribute to our teaching efforts in the area of physiology, broadly defined. Submit applications by Oct 16, more info here: apply.interfolio.com/110810
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Very happy to have had the opportunity to present our recent preprint at #PlasmidBiology2022 and discuss with plasmid biologists! I had an amazing time in Toulouse with colleagues! @ISPB2022 #ISPB2022
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edze westra@edzewestra21 Sep 2022
Postdoc position (4 yrs) available at the University of Exeter in my team: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…
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excited to announce a new endowed postdoc fellowship at emory for interdisciplinary science! nature.com/naturecareers/job… please circulate widely. open to all fields of science, & especially for @EmoryTMLS-related research. goal is to help guide fellows to successful faculty careers
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