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Graduate position:Simulating evolution under complex genotype-phenotype map
Genetics and Microbiology Deparment

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/genetics-and-microbiology-deparment-27778-graduate-positionsimulating-evolution-under-complex-genotype-phenotype-map/

#developmentalbiology #EvolutionaryBiology ...
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Columbia University

E3B Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Applications received by Oct 15 will receive full consideration.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-university-27778-assistant-professor-of-evolutionary-biology/

#evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Sci...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-university-27778-assistant-professor-of-evolutionary-biology/?fsp_sid=15167

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Local evolutionary adaptation occurs when populations of a single species develop heritable, genetic traits that are finely tuned to the highly specific conditions of their immediate environment.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/ebio09102601.html

https://www.europesays.com/ie/681036/ Adaptive zones of feliforms and evolutionary regimes within terrestrial mammalian carnivores #BiologicalAndPhysicalAnthropology #Ecology #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryEcology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Palaeoecology #palaeontology #paleontology #Science #Zoology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

It is a remarkably humbling realization that a single, unnoticed bite from an arthropod the size of an apple seed can completely rewrite an individual's relationship with the global food chain. Alpha-gal syndrome reminds us that the human immune system, for all its staggering sophistication and atomic-level precision, remains intimately and sometimes precariously tethered to the natural world.
#WhatIs #Immunology #MolecularBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Entomology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/wi09102601.html

Bacteriophages are the most abundant and diverse viral entities on Earth, functioning as microscopic apex predators that exist exclusively to infect, replicate within, and ultimately lyse bacterial populations.
#WhatIs #Virology #Microbiology #EvolutionaryBiology #MolecularBiology #Biophysics #Biogeochemistry #ClinicalImmunology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/wi07312601.html

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01204-5

#HackerNews #ancientgenomics #human #evolution #evolutionarybiology #geneticresearch

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: Ancestral chromosomes hooked up a million years ago and made chromosome 2! 🤯🤯 Someone alert the history books! 🥱💤 Apparently, our ancient relatives had the same number of chromosomes, but it took us until 2023 to confirm this mind-boggling revelation. 😂🔬
https://www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-human-chromosome-2-fuse #AncestralChromosomes #Chromosome2 #EvolutionaryBiology #GeneticResearch #BreakingNews #ScienceDiscovery #HackerNews #ngated

Food for thought #Samples from higher #paleolatitudes were on average smaller, but contained #outliers with the largest #sizes, highlighting the need to analyze entire #distributions. #Lithology and #collection differences need to be accounted for when evaluating #size differences across #space (#polar #gigantism) and #time (#Lilliput #effect). Similarly, differences in #facies may affect #species #determination

https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2021.063

#Paleobiology #Paleontology #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology

Very exciting preprint led by Manu Irimia on evolution of tissue-specificity of expression in vertebrates and insects, providing great data, evidence for "low conservation of tissue-specific expression profiles", and tissue-specific gains associated with duplications and with the emergence of unique phenotypes
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.14.516384v1
#geneexpression #EvolutionaryBiology #TissueSpecifity #ortholog #paralog #DeneDuplication