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Meike Wortel

@meikewortel.bsky.social
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Evolutionary Systems Biologist @ SILS University of Amsterdam www.meikewortel.com

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
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…
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Mijn persoonlijkste column tot nu toe 👇
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
And by Michael Lässig Hope to see all of you at the symposium on Wednesday!
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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · 05/06/2026
Still a few days to register!! #BCNCollaboratorium #IQS #Mathsandbiology
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Great to see this out! doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Lead by @karenbisschop.bsky.social and Thomas Blankers. It discusses: If you repeat 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬, do you get the same result in terms of fitness? The answer is… not necessarily. Glad to have played a part!
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Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of evolution across replicated experiments
Abstract. The repeatability of evolution is fundamentally important for understanding the origin and diversification of life as well as for developing evol
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
How do human gut microbiome species interact? Can we explain their communities and invasion patterns form environmental factors alone? PhD students Pim van Leeuwen and Pietro Gadaleta set out to test this! TLDR: Indeed, for the 10 common species we can! Paper out in mSystems: doi.org/10.1128/msys...
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Environmentally mediated interactions predict community assembly and invasion success in a gut microbiota synthetic community | mSystems
The stability of the human gut microbiome is crucial for host health, with opportunistic pathogen invasions causing diseases and healthy strain replacements needed for recovery. The microbiota’s compl...
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Enjoying my sabbatical visit in Barcelona, discussing science with @n-martin.bsky.social:
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Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic-cell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Lectures and Computer exercises from the last year's Summer School are now live! Watch here - principlescellphysiology.org/summer-schoo... Want to join us for the next one? Stay tuned, details on the upcoming school are on the way 🎆
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Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic-cell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Spring is here and Piglette is getting ready to swim in Liebig's barrel while reading about it in the brand new chapter on Microeconomics of cell metabolism by Jumpei Yamagishi and Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama. Find it here in the new edition of our textbook principlescellphysiology.org/book-economi...
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Phd Position alert 🚨 Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution. It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD Position in Computational Modelling of Fungal Evolution
How do giant mobile elements called ‘Starships’ reshape fungal plant pathogens? Help us computationally model their spread and impact in nature and agriculture!
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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🧵 New preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... In 2023, Papkou et al. reported an empirical fitness landscape with a striking property: >500 local optima ("peaks"), spanning both high and low fitness. Despite this ruggedness, >75% of simulated adaptive walks reached the top ~14% of peaks.
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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New group website: www.noramartin-lab.com Get in touch if you are interested in joining the group, or know anyone who might be 📮
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HOME | Martin Lab
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz
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Unil center for theory in ecology and evolution (UCTEE) - FBM Unil
Page Unil Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution of site Faculty of Biology and Medicine hosted by the University of Lausanne
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Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic-cell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We regret to inform you that after four successful editions of the Summer School on the Economic Principles of Cellular Biology, the program will not take place in 2026.
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Liedewij Laan @liedewijlaan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Deadline for abstracts is extended untill March 19! So if you are interested in the interfase of physics of life and evolution, consider applying!
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Anne Kupczok @annecmg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sounds like a great opportunity for a professor position in computational biology in the Netherlands careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology
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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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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Last chance to submit an abstract to our symposium on fitness landscapes and genotype-phenotype maps!
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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
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Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics
We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
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Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic-cell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
For a New Year, we have a new chapter in the latest edition of our textbook! Check out Benefit and cost of a protein and other chapters here principlescellphysiology.org/book-economi...
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New year, new conferences! Consider submitting to the symposium on Fitness landscapes and Genotype-phenotype maps, linking computational and experimental approaches (organising with @n-martin.bsky.social; @dbajic.bsky.social invited spreaker) at SMBE (28/6-2/7)! Abstract deadline February 3rd!
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Organisers - @meikewortel.bsky.social | University of Amsterdam - @n-martin.bsky.social | @crg.eu Invited Speaker - @dbajic.bsky.social | Delft University of Technology
SMBE2026 Symposium 20 | Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments

Organisers
- Meike Wortel — University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Female)
- Nora Martin — Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain (Female)

Invited Speaker
- Djordje Bajić — Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (Male)
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
PhD position available at the University of Bern in Prof. Claudia Bank's lab. Application deadline: Jan 9, 2026. Ideal for candidates with a strong math and programming background. More info: banklab.github.io/positions #phd
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Positions | Theoretical Ecology and Evolution
Positions | Theoretical Ecology and Evolution
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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Submit an abstract to our symposium "S20 Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments" 🧬 - organised with @meikewortel.bsky.social
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Recently submitted a paper to iMetaOmics @imetascience.bsky.social which states to have fees waived at their website (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2996...), but after acceptence asks for fees. I hope this is a misunderstanding and resolved soon, but I'm wondering if others had similar issues...
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Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
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Michael Manhart @michaelmanhart.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My department (Rutgers Med School Biochem & Mol Bio) is hiring a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Medicine. Topic is interpreted broadly, but candidates should integrate evolutionary theory with molecular mechanisms. Please share! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261...
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Assistant or Associate Professor Tenure Track
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), Rutgers Health, seeks outstanding candidates for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor...
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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
What, where, when? 📅 October 31st, 2025 | 12:00 – 18:00 📍 Auditorium, O2 building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🎟️ Free, register here (before 1st Oct with a talk title; 15th Oct regular): forms.office.com/e/qCrRcXhsyA
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Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Please spread the word! 10 days left to apply for this #sciencejobs as Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Quantitative Cell Biology 👩‍🔬 @izb-unibern.bsky.social @unibe.ch! ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
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Uni Bern: Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology
Start date of employment: anticipated for August 2027
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Erik Bakkeren @erikbakkeren.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Note it in your calendars! Aug 3-5, 2026. Excited to bring back MEEHubs to a hub near you (Switzerland, USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Ukraine, or virtual only)‼️
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Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Leuk interview met voormalig PhD student Lars Zandbergen over zijn promotie onderzoek in NRC. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Is je blaas steriel? ‘Er leven wel honderd soorten bacteriën die elkaar beïnvloeden’
Jong geleerd: Ook in onze blaas leeft een complexe gemeenschap van microben. Hun onderlinge interacties hebben invloed op onze gezondheid, maar ook op antibioticaresistentie.
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Assistant Professor position in the Microbiome Engineering group (Prof Sahar El Aidy) at University of Amsterdam Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis
Are you pioneering molecular tools and applying advanced imaging strategies to uncover how microbial communities are organized and interact in space and time? If so, we invite you to join The Swammerd...
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Michael Manhart @michaelmanhart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share! Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr... Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
After a mutation makes E. coli more resistant to cefotaxime, can it coexist with its less resistant ancestor? In collaboration (Philip Ruelens, Arjan de Visser, Eline de Ridder): with measurements of growth, detoxification, and death rates we can predict coexistence. doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
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Density-dependent feedback limits the spread of beta-lactamase mutants: experimental observations and population dynamic model | mBio
Since the discovery of penicillin, β-lactam antibiotics have become the most widely used antibiotics to treat bacterial infections. Their applicability is decreasing because bacteria evolve resistance...
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It was fun to record videos for the Economic Principles in Cell Biology MOOC ... coming this fall!
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc
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Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...
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Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic-cell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
There is still time to join us for engaging lectures and provoking discussions at our Summer School on Economic Principles of Cell Biology - at least online! Mark your calendars, July 23-26, and register here: univienna.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: univie: summer school Economic Principles in Cell Biology. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
You can find the lecture schedule at: https://principlescellphysiology.org/summer-school-2025/schedule.html
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Postdoc in Experimental Evolution available at the University of Alberta with collaborators in our exciting HFSP project on predicting evolution in Candida communities! I Apply this month 🧫🥼📈 apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Evolution - Careers@UAlberta.ca
University of Alberta: Careers@UAlberta.ca
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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF
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Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Come work with us! We're looking of postdoc(s) with experience in bacterial genomics and interest in mathematical modelling to work on bacterial ecology and evolution in the context of public health. tinyurl.com/n34vzszu
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Opportunités de carrière : Postdoctoral researcher in bacterial genomics (22209)
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I'm glad to have recommended this very nice (and my first) paper for @peercommunityin.bsky.social . The nice (and thorough) reviewers, authors and PCI support didn't make my job hard. It was a good experience! (I could recommend it 😀) doi.org/10.24072/pci...
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‘Goldilocks’-size extensively annotated model for Escherichia co...
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Peter Lind @peteralind.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...
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Postdoctor, 2 years, in predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance
The Department of Molecular Biology seeks a postdoctoral researcher who will work with forecasting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance. The employment is full-time for two yea
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Jürgen Zanghellini @juergenzanghellini.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🎥 Behind the scenes with @diana-sz.bsky.social shooting for the Economic Principles in Cell Biology summer school 🌱📚 Join us this July for cutting-edge lectures & interactive blended learning! 📢 Register epcp.univie.ac.at/summer-schoo... @economic-cell.bsky.social
@diana-sz.bsky.social is preparing to record her lecture
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Join us for the Netherlands Society for Evolutionary Biology (NLSEB) annual meeting - April 8 in Ede, NL. Great keynote speakers and sure to be a fun day. Abstract submissions now open! @nlseb.bsky.social
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Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic-cell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It is true, we are coming back for the 4th Summer School "Economic Principles in Cell Biology" from July 23-26th 2025! Register to join us in Vienna or remotely epcp.univie.ac.at/summer-schoo...
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Liedewij Laan @liedewijlaan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
PhD position in bottom-up synthetic biology, where you will couple regulation to sensing in synthetic cells. Apply if you have a quantitative mind set and like working in a collaborative, creative, pionieering and social team. Please share, deadline nov 22 www.academictransfer.com/en/346627/ph...
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PhD Position Coupling Sensing to Intracellular Organization in Synthetic Cells
Join a cutting-edge research team and vibrant consortium to experimentally explore how synthetic cells dynamically respond to external signals.Job description To sense, a (synthetic) cell needs to dyn...
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30
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Anna Heintz-Buschart @a-h-b.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Microbes are everywhere, but postdocs are hard to find: apply before the end of the month: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiome Analysis of the Soil-plant-gut-health Axis
Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiome Analysis of the Soil-plant-gut-health Axis
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Detmer Sipkema @detmersipkema.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Hi all, I'm currently recruiting a PhD student who would like to use AI&Bioinformatics to discover the secrets how to grow bacteria that are currently uncultivable... Please repost. Applications can be done through the website only: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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PhD project: Metabolic Modelling and Cultivation of Bacteria from Marine Sponges
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