Benjamin Kerr

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Benjamin Kerr

@evokerr

evolutionary biologist, microbe enthusiast, math junkie, dog lover, caffeine repository Professor of Biology, University of Washington (he/him)

Seattle Bergabung Ağustos 2013

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·6 Eyl

After a truly amazing presentation on “Evolution of Plasmid Transfer Genes in Bacterial Communities”, a huge congratulations to @livkosterlitz for earning the prestigious Plasmid Biology Prize at the 2024 @PlasmidSociety meeting in Hamamatsu Japan!

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·6 Ara

@MRebolleda So kind of you @MRebolleda !

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María Rebolleda@MRebolleda·6 Ara

This is another absolutely genius paper by some of the nicest people in our field.

Benjamin Kerr@evokerr

How does exposure to different hosts affect evolution of bacterial genes on mobile elements? In @MolBioEvol, @livkosterlitz et al use barcode methods to compare adaptive landscapes across species & show alignment enables a form of adaptive “crowdsourcing”🧵academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40…

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·5 Ara

@PaulHoskisson @livkosterlitz Thanks so much @PaulHoskisson!

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Paul Hoskisson 😷🔬🧫🧬🐸🐍🦎@PaulHoskisson·4 Ara

This is a super cool piece of work - @livkosterlitz @evokerr et al Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation of a Horizontally Transferred Gene academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40…

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·5 Ara

This work was spearheaded by @livkosterlitz in collaboration with @nate_grassi, @baileymwerner, @RS_McGee, and @EvaTop3. We are thrilled to see it appear in @MolBioEvol!

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·5 Ara

Horizontal gene transfer is commonplace in bacterial communities. Here we see that if landscapes align adequately, vehicles of HGT (e.g. conjugative plasmids) may enable a distributed form of genetic evolution among community members, allowing species to adaptively “crowdsource.”

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María Rebolleda@MRebolleda·31 Tem

🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·13 Tem

Exciting new resource for math bio folks!

Alex Best@DrAlexBest

🚨🚨New textbook alert!!🚨🚨 Introducing Mathematical Biology: An Open Education Resource sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingmat… Key points: * It's FREE * It's interactive * It's accessible * It's...standard math-bio content for undergrads but did I mention it's FREE?

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·22 Haz

@vscooper @RosieRedfield Really looking forward to the meeting in a few weeks! Thank you both so much for all of your hard work!!

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María Rebolleda@MRebolleda·12 Haz

I am so excited to read this! I love how each of these authors thinks!

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What prevents multicellular organisms from evolving back to their ancestral state of unicellularity? In a new preprint, @peterlconlin, Heather Goldsby and colleagues show how division of labor can lead to the entrenchment of multicellularity. 🧵(1/14) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Benjamin Kerr@evokerr·13 Haz

@MRebolleda Thanks so much María!

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SSE@sse_evolution·25 May

Congratulations to Dr. Sally Otto, recipient of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award! Don't miss her award talk on Friday, June 2 at virtual #Evol2023! evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2… @sarperotto @Evol_mtg

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María Rebolleda@MRebolleda·22 May

I have some preliminary good news, the short of it is that I will be hiring a postdoc soon to work on a collaborative project with Dr. Seunghyun Sim (an amazing chemist) to evaluate the role of spatial structure in community function using bio-printing and directed evolution.

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@livkosterlitz @PlasmidSociety @MRebolleda @PaulHoskisson @nate_grassi @RS_McGee @MolBioEvol @vscooper