@oliMeacock

50% microbiologist, 50% physicist, 50% Matlab fraud, 0% statistician. Occasional witterer at https://xitter.cf/t.co/MxdKjjQdwW. Currently postdoc @DMF_UNIL.

 Lausanne, Switzerland
olivermeacock.co.uk
Joined March 2019
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New pre-print! My first research project with @saramitri is now live. Interactions underpin our understanding of ecosystems, but can change in hard-to-explain ways. Here, we show that many of these variations can be predicted from underlying mechanisms: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Environment-organism feedbacks drive changes in ecological interactions

Ecological interactions, the impact of one organism on the growth and death of another, underpin our understanding of the long-term composition and the functional properties of communities. Interac...

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📣 Job alert 📣 I have a 12 month post-doc position (with lots of international travel) available to test different model building methods for engineering biology. #postdocposition #synbio #engbiol Please retweet! Job ad 👇
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📝New Author Summary #TBauthorssummary Environment-organism feedbacks drive changes in ecological interactions - bioarxiv preprint by Oliver J. Meacock @oliMeacock and Sara Mitri @saramitri biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Ultimately, we hope that these mechanistic insights will help resolve some of the difficulties that interaction-based viewpoints have recently run into when used to predict the properties of microbial ecosystems
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Big thanks to @HFSP and @NCCRMicrobiomes for supporting this work, and to Sara and the lab for everything else!
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Our manuscript on FAST is now out (with a few new results and analyses) at PLOS Computational Biology! It's been a joint effort with Mack Durham - co-author and mentor par excellence - to get this over the finishing line: journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…

Tracking bacteria at high density with FAST, the Feature-Assisted Segmenter/Tracker

Author summary Much of what we know about bacterial behaviour comes from tracking solitary cells through space and time. For example, one can unpick the mechanisms that drive chemotaxis by quantify...

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Oliver Meacock@oliMeacock13 Dec 2021
Our cell tracking software, FAST, is now publicly available! Watch our summary video below for a quick rundown of its design and capabilities: youtu.be/9rDLSZ2AcQ0
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Tremendous thanks to everyone (@Prokaryota @ravinash_kk @ImDrBooth @willpjsmith @Natecos and Jamie Wheeler among others) who has helped out during development and teething. There were many bugs that never would have been spotted, let alone squashed, without your help
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Lastly, if you want to understand the theory behind FAST I really recommend this paper - a beautiful application of information theory, the framework which is the key to our tracking algorithm. Absolutely revelatory when I read it during lockdown: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…

Positional information, in bits | PNAS

Cells in a developing embryo have no direct way of “measuring” their physical position. Through a variety of processes, however, the expression lev...

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THERY Manuel@ManuelTHERY17 Jul 2023
Registrations are open for an amazing course at the interface between physics and biology @institut_curie training.institut-curie.org/…
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Very happy to see our new review out! Thanks to Aurore, Shota and Sara for making such a lively writing team together
Sara Mitri@saramitri6 Jul 2023
Our latest review paper by @picot, @shota483_IL and @oliMeacock is out! We discuss how to couple experiments and models when measuring inter-species interactions in microbes (1/3) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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My own contribution to this was sparked by a growing interest in understanding how microbial interactions differ from interactions in classical ecosystems. Watch this space for more in the coming months...
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HFSP@HFSP14 Mar 2023
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships application opens tomorrow! It's time to pitch your creative scientific ideas into a Letter of Intent and kick off your research career with an #HFSPPostdoctoralFellowship🚀What are you waiting for? #hfsp
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[Figure 1.A.]@Figure_1A13 Sep 2022
[Figure 1.A.] 2022 a proposé le thème, "Formes infinies, évolution enchantée". Nous sommes fascinés par la façon dont l'évolution développe de nouvelles formes - de nouvelles façons de vivre, de penser, de se modifier et de s'adapter à de nouveaux environnements. • © @oliMeacock
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Datta Lab@TheSquishyLab18 Aug 2022
Do you study active matter? 🦠🔬 And do you like winter activities (e.g., skiing)? ⛷️❄️ If so, participate in our @AspenPhysics Winter Conference on "Active Matter in Complex Environments" (Jan 1-6, 2023)! Details at: dattalab.princeton.edu/aspen… Please RT and share broadly!
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A scientist@ParisSeminar17 Jun 2022
Les Houches school on Theoretical Biophysics broadly defined (not just for theorists, not just for biophysicists) in July 2023. When: 3-29 July 2023 Where: Les Houches, French Alps Website: phys.ens.fr/~tmora/leshouche… Applications will be due in early 2023.
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EMBObacnet22@BacNet224 Mar 2022
Looking forward to an exciting programme at the EMBO Bacterial networks workshop 04-09 Sept 2022 - Registration now open meetings.embo.org/event/21-b…
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Very grateful to be on this list! Delighted to share that I will be starting a long-term fellowship with @saramitri in the coming months🇨🇭 Special thanks to my DPhil supervisors Mack Durham and Kevin Foster for their advice, support and encouragement!
HFSP@HFSP14 Mar 2022
HFSP is delighted to announce the 2022 Research Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Congratulations to all our new awardees! Lists of the new awards available at bit.ly/2QMdUae
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