Are you fascinated by how eukaryotic genomes evolve? Do you want to look beyond model organisms and point mutations to uncover the complexity of genome evolution?

Abstract. Homologous recombination is ubiquitous across evolution, generating variation through genetic reshuffling. Although bacteria lack meiotic recombi

Virus analysis requires many different tools for different steps. While many effective software options exist for automating these, they usually follow an end…

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

Abstract. Orphan genes (OGs)—genes lacking detectable homologs outside a species—are widespread in microbial genomes and are thought to contribute to their

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Katy Brown, Dr Emma Harding and Professor Rachael Tarlinton

Berkeley, CA

Bacteria produce natural products to adapt to their environments, with phage interactions as major ecological and evolutionary drivers. While some nat…

Microbiomes and their host environments form complex, interconnected ecosystems. The microbial species within a microbiome, on the one hand, compete for resources, while on the other hand, they exc...

Recently, Heng Li released MiniBWA (GitHub) alongside a paper by Heng Li and Nils Homer describing the method (paper). MiniBWA builds on the approaches in Minimap2 (also by Heng Li), but falls back on...

Interactive SMBE2026 schedule. Contribute to MoiColl/SMBE2026_schedule development by creating an account on GitHub.

An inventory of tools and resources for short-read shotgun metagenomics. - feargalr/Metagenomics-tools-atlas

In this project, you will investigate the biogeography of above- and belowground fungi associated with several Scalesia species. We aim to develop an integrated view of diversity and distribution of t...

A single bacteriophage can dominate microbial communities yet only evolves when migration changes its ecological context.

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

I've been co-teaching a course for several years in which we read Sapiens . I think I've read it eight times, now. That explains the gumband...