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Chris Knight

@knightjar.bsky.social
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Evolutionary genetics: microbes, microbial communities, models; academic at the University of Manchester

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Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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'Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Manchester
We wish to appoint a PostDoctoral Research Associate to an exciting project exploring the assembly, stability and function of microbial decomposer communities.
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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
So excited to have @szytynska.bsky.social kicking off our Evolution & Ecology day at @manchester.ac.uk today! #UoM_EEday
Sharon introducing herself and her research.
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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Looks interesting, plasmid assembly from multiple metagenomes "On synthetic benchmark datasets, PlasMAAG reconstructed 50-121% more near-complete plasmids than competing methods and improved the Matthews Correlation Coefficient of geNomad contig classif. by 28-106% www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Joy! Published today in PNAS: multi-toxin T6SS attacks limit resistance evolution in competitors! Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🦠🎇Congratulations to the soon-to-be Dr Rosie Clover 👩🏼‍🎓! The O.G. MERMan PhD student, and the first student to graduate from the Gifford lab, proud supervisor moment 🥺😄 @mermanchester.bsky.social 🎓
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🚨Please share🚨 I’m hiring a PhD student to start Sep 2025 on an exciting project on fungal pathogens🍄‍🟫, soil health and microbiomes, together with dr. Filipa Cox and @knightjar.bsky.social If you have any good candidates, please let them contact me directly. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Amazing work on how soil microbial communities respond to extreme environmental changes. From @knightjar.bsky.social and @frantecol.bsky.social, this work is a real tour de force. #ClimateChange #MicroSky #Soil
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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