Anna Dewar

Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch @StuWest8

Huge congratulations to @AnnaEDewar on winning an Early Career Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists! Anna is a Career Development Research Fellow at St John's, working on bacterial genome evolution. 🦠🧬

@lauriebelch @StuWest8 nature.com/articles/s4157…

Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch @StuWest8

@victorajuwon1 @lauriebelch @StuWest8 Thanks Victor! Hope you're doing well :)

@AnnaEDewar @lauriebelch @StuWest8 Looks awesome, Anna!

Comparative genomics needs to use phylogenetic methods: why, how and common questions nature.com/articles/s4157… @AnnaEDewar @lauriebelch

If you explore the college gardens, you might be rewarded with not one, not two, but all three college cats...! Thanks to CDRF @AnnaEDewar for the impressive feat of spotting them all together 🐱🐱🐱

Want to know why silk wasps lay male eggs first? Turns out it's to provide mates for their daughters! Shocking family secrets revealed in my latest paper on Microstigmus rosae @OxfordBiology @UniExeCEC link.springer.com/article/10.100…

At #ISBE2024 next week? Come see my first ever conference poster. (I'm cheating - it is a slight update of an awesome poster by @AnnaEDewar )

So exciting to see our (Liam Shaw, @Sheppard_Lab, @EpicFeil_) piece on the current state of plasmid epidemiology is now out: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… @NDMOxford @OxfordBiology @IneosOxford @MilnerCentre

Very excited that next month, I’ll be starting a Career Development Research Fellowship at @StJohnsOx! I’ll be using comparative genomics and phylogenetics to tackle broad, across-species evolutionary questions in bacteria and eukaryotes. Can’t wait to get started! 🧬🦠

Great-looking event in Oxford with @MicrobioSoc for those interested in microbial genomics...

New preprint out! 📢 Thread coming soon 👀 ...

Larger ant colonies have favoured the evolution of more worker castes 🐜 New research in @NatureEcoEvo on these 'superorganisms' could help us learn more about the evolution of complexity in multicellular organisms 👇 bit.ly/3AGVUrL

@AsherLeeks @ZoologyUBC @UBC @UBCBiodiversity Amazing! Huge congrats Asher!!

I am absolutely delighted to be joining the University of British Columbia next year as an Assistant Professor @ZoologyUBC. We will study social evolution in viruses.

I’m really proud to share that our paper on the diversity of social complexity in termites has been published!!!

DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See decodinggenomes.org for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2

@_isratjahan @lauriebelch Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll look into that option for the next version!

@_isratjahan Haha that’s one of many a nice touches put in by @lauriebelch ☕️ Great to see you’re using SOCfinder, and excited to see what you find! 🦠

Please RT: Funded PhD project (UK students) on the ecology and evolution of antibiotic resistance 🦠🧬🫁 at Queen’s University Belfast. Application deadline: 21 June Please 📧 me with any questions, happy to chat! findaphd.com/phds/project/h…

@TLowePower @StuWest8 @Hao7Chunhui @lauriebelch @GhoulMelanie @TLowePower Our aim was to understand what factor(s) explain the huge variation in pangenome fluidity across bacteria, rather than what determines any single species' pangenome fluidity. Interesting to think about specific species though!

@TLowePower @StuWest8 @Hao7Chunhui @lauriebelch @GhoulMelanie Here's our main definition of the 'host or free living' trait. We also used a version of the where 'primarily host' & 'primarily free' were merged into a single 'both' category. Ralstonia solanacearum is in our dataset as 'primarily host'.🦠

Bacteria with more variable lifestyles have more fluid pangenomes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @AnnaEDewar @Hao7Chunhui @lauriebelch @GhoulMelanie