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Emma Derrick @emderrick.bsky.social · 20h

The first chapter of my PhD is finally out! I learned 1) studying evolution within natural communities is difficult and 2) the publishing process is more difficult See below for a great summary by Jesse

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MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Registration for MEEHubs2026 taking place Aug 3-5 is closing this Friday (July 31, 2026)!! There's still time to join us in Montreal, Ann Arbor, Irvine, Morelia, Zurich, Manchester, Chernihiv, or online. Register here: meehubs.org

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Abstract submission now closed but we now invite all poster presenters to upload their posters to our platform using the above link by July 31, 2026.

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MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

2 days left ‼️ Don't forget to submit your abstract to MEEHubs2026: Aug 3-5, 2026 meehubs.org

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Emma Derrick @emderrick.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Come join us at the Montreal hub this summer!

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Latest preprint from the lab is also the first data paper from @emderrick.bsky.social ! We asked if an experimentally applied selective pressure (the herbicide Roundup) causes genome-wide or gene-specific sweeps in aquatic bacteria in a semi-natural (mesocosm) context. 1/n

Photo of experimental ponds, each holding 1000 L of lake water at the McGill Gault Nature Reserve

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

“One Health: Urban birds peck up resistant pathogens” I’ll take the blame for the punny title. Credit for anything good in this little Dispatch piece goes to @emderrick.bsky.social ! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jkhG3QW8S...

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

New from super student Sana Naderi! The punch line: deer have high within-host viral diversity compared to humans, cats, dogs, or minks. This is likely due to larger viral populations sizes or more chronic infections, which could explain the rapid viral evolution seen previously in deer.

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Ever wonder if V. cholerae loses genetic diversity due to bottlenecks as it passes through the gut? We have a little preprint about that! The answer, based on sequencing 200 genomes from 10 patients’ vomit and stool, is: maybe a little but not much!

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Gavin Douglas @gmdouglas.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Happy to see my new paper with @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social published! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Bonus of this great News and Views article that was a surprise to us both: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Along with our own blog post on the topic where we summarize the work: tinyurl.com/34r87kr9

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Ricky Wolff @rwolff.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

I'm so excited to share this new paper (with my great advisor @nanditagarud.bsky.social), on selective sweeps in gut bacteria. In this long thread, I’m going to go over our results, but I also want to highlight some of the incredible work that set the stage for us www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Pervasive selective sweeps across human gut microbiomes

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