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Sungbin Lim

@sungbin.bsky.social
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Doctoral Researcher at MPI for Evolutionary Biology Microbiologist, Experimentalist Interested in Microbiology, Evolution, Open Science practice, History & Philosophy of Science🧑‍🔬🔍

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Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our new study is now available on @molbioevol.bsky.social Here, we show that the loss of prfB autoregulation might be driven by compensatory evolution rather than direct adaptation of prfB expression. Sometimes, such complex traits can be an 'Evolutionary jail', constraining a species from escaping.
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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Jumbo phage–mediated transduction of genomic islands | PNAS
Bacteria acquire new genes by horizontal gene transfer, typically mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). While plasmids, bacteriophages, and c...
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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
No new genes needed to fly - just rewire what you have! 🦇🧬 Great new paper from the labs of @fany-real.bsky.social @stemundi.bsky.social @dariloops.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415... #EvoDevo #SingleCell #BatWings
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Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene programme in bat wing development - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Single-cell comparison of developing bat and mouse limbs reveals conservation of cell populations and gene expression patterns, and suggests repurposing of genes involved in proximal limb development ...
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Olivia Kosterlitz @oliviakosterlitz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Still on a science high after an incredible Microbial Population GRS/GRC. Honored to have been able to talk about my work. Grateful for all the amazing feedback, ideas, and inspiring conversations—especially from the brilliant scientists whose papers I’ve long admired. Can’t wait for the next one!
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Kiseok (Keith) Lee @kiseokmicro.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change - Nature
Experimental perturbation of soil pH leads to a generalizable model of the soil microcosm comprising three functional regimes with distinct mechanisms linking environmental change to metabolite dynami...
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Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Glad to share our work with Dr. Jenna Gallie's group! The study reports on the mechanism of how the tRNA gene repertoire can become flexible within a population level, which was originally considered to be much more stable. Great job, @guyngan.bsky.social ! #MicroSky #EvoSky
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Large-scale duplication events underpin population-level flexibility in tRNA gene copy number in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25
Abstract. The complement of tRNA genes within a genome is typically considered to be a (relatively) stable characteristic of an organism. Here, we demonstrate t
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Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Excited to join the conference. There are interesting topics and great participants. Please consider joining virtually if you are interested. The registration is still open. Also, it's FREE! #MicroSky #EvoSky
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Sungbin Lim @sungbin.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
This is an introductory post of myself. I'm Sungbin Lim, from South Korea, doing PhD in Microbial Evolutionay Dymanics group with Dr. Jenna Gallie in MPI for Evolutionary Biology. I'm interested in evolution of bacterial translation and programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF). Nice to meet you!
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Lavisha Parab @lavishaparab.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
New conference/workshop "Women in evolutionary biology" at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Registration until 15 January, the event is in May 2024. 🧪👩‍🔬 #ecoevo Iink here: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/102/re...
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Women in Evolutionary Biology
Women in Evolutionary Biology is an event to promote diversity and equality in the field. For this purpose, we bring together female scientists from different backgrounds working in evolutionary bi...
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
🦠 Do microbiomes have their own microbiomes? 🦠 Well... kind of. Much smaller than bacteria, there is a whole zoo of Darwinian entities that depend on microbial hosts. We could call these collectives "nanobiomes", and there's much to explore! 🧵 A thread (originally on Twitter, now on Bsky) ⬇️
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