The Natural History Museum in Oxford is hosting an amazing exhibition on bacteria. Featuring a giant inflatable E. coli cell, a browser game on bacterial gladiators & several microscopy images from our group.
Check it out:
Twitter microbiology lectures
!OUTREACH!
This October/November, 21 scientists from all over the world came together to give Twitter lectures on Microbiology, using the hashtag #EUROmicroMOOC. I contributed a lecture on Bacterial Cooperation, one of my favorite topics! These lectures are aimed at a general audience, and it was tons of fun to answer to questions live on Twitter.
Check out my lecture: EUROmicroMOOC- Bacterial Cooperation
ISME poster
Had a blast at the ISME17 conference in Leipzig (Germany) and came back wowed and inspired by all the amazing science!
New paper in The ISME Journal
Our new paper in ISME – now available online!
“Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
ISME Journal Cover Art
One of my microscopy pictures was short-listed (Top 3) for The 2018 ISME Journal Cover Competition!
The three finalist images will be displayed at the ISME 2018 conference in Leipzig, Germany:
New paper on Biorxiv
Our new paper is on bioRxiv! “Virulence evolution in the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa“
Seminar on vampire-like bacteria
I wrote a short blog article on a fascinating seminar on vampire-like bacteria.
https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/article/interview-vampire-exploring-predatory-bacteria-bdellovibrio
Move to the University of Oxford
Big news: I moved from Switzerland to the UK and started my new position at the Department of Zoology at Oxford. So excited!
PhD defense
IT IS DONE! On Sept 15th I successfully defended my PhD thesis.
It was an amazing feeling. Thanks to everyone for coming and making this a day I will never forget.
You can read the thesis here: “Evolution of Cooperation and Virulence in an Opportunistic Pathogen” (2017)
New paper in BMC Ecology and Evolution
Paper published: My third thesis chapter was accepted for publication in BMC Ecology and Evolution (2017).
I experimentally evolved bacteria to test whether they would evolve back to being cooperators after they had evolved to be cheaters. Turns out … they don’t!