Georgia Drew

What drives microbes to be more (or less) antagonistic to hosts? Check out our new review @kaylacking @emstevens93 to explore some of the driving factors with lots of examples. #symbionts #evolution nature.com/articles/s4157…

Another computational chapter during my PhD is out on bioRxiv! Using a meta-analysis compiling experimental studies from 1996-2021, we found that how warming impacted pathogen virulence depends on pathogen kingdom and host-pathogen evolutionary history more than host traits!

Excited to see this out! Was very fun working on this Insight piece with @AuraRaulo

Looking for a PhD position on host-microbe interactions? Consider applying to our international graduate program @MPI_Bio: From Molecules to Organisms! My lab is currently recruiting a student as part of our funded @DFG_Public grant to work on insect-microbe symbioses!

Microbes can help us recycle plastics, make foods and survive pathogen infections. Sign up to an evening of science + art to find out more. Next Tuesday👉 tinyurl.com/y7s5ve9u Talks from @OxfordBiology @oxfordgeography Supported by @BritishEcolSoc @OxResServ @OxfordUniEvents

Interested in how microbes can be helpful? Join us for an evening of sci talks & microbial inspired art. 16th May, Oxford // Supported by @BritishEcolSoc @UniofOxford // Free registration - tinyurl.com/y7s5ve9u // #scicomm #sciart #oxfordevents #microbiome #unseenworkers

Some viruses do this crazy thing where the genome is split into different fragments, which are then each transmitted separately. We show that this can evolve quite easily by selection for 'cheating'. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

We hear about the harm microbes cause, but what about all their benefits? From gut microbiomes to plant symbioses, join this event to find out more about these unseen workers and the part they play in our lives 🦠 Register 👉 bit.ly/3KRVAI9

New from @santiago_mf_ @GC_Drew @kaylacking @OxfordBiology in #BiologyLetters => Interactions between insect vectors and plant pathogens span the parasitism-mutualism continuum ow.ly/6NQY50Nh8h9 #vectorborne #plantscience #pathogen

Dietary changes leave genetic signature in #microbiota: Bacteroides thetatiotaomicron evolves under nutritional changes. #Diet changes increase intraspecies diversity & mutations w/Western-style diet favor host mucus consumption @DapaTanja @KarinaXavierLab cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Are you dab hand at ecology and evolution with experience of field teaching? Then come and join us! @ModEviPol and @ecology_ncl are advertising for a Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution. Get in touch if you are interested! See jobs.ac.uk/job/CXD837/lec…

Finally out, thanks to the wonderful coauthors: Isolation, culture and characterization of Arsenophonus symbionts from two insect species reveal loss of infectious transmission and extended host range frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Major initiative in ecological sciences at @LivUni_IVES 3x lectureships and 1x chair available in ecology (defined broadly). Be part of a collegial dept. Great facilities to support your research @CGR_UoL Closes 16th March my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui… my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecrui…

In this new preprint @AmelieCabirol shows that a defined community of bee gut bacteria, but not its individual constituents, promotes cognitive performance in honey bees. This suggests that the effect on the host is an emergent property of the community! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy New Year everyone! If you want a new job in molecular mechanisms of symbiosis in 2023, you are in luck, our calls are still open! Deadline 20th Jan! #Wolbachia 🪰🦠👩‍🔧👨‍🔧🧰 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/39109 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/39079

The ZSL Scientific Medal is awarded to 3 researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to their field within 15 years of completing their PhD Professor Kayla King, University of Oxford, is awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal 👉bit.ly/3UOllfe 7/12

How does Angomonas control the number of its bacterial endosymbionts? New paper from our lab finally out! Great team effort, guys! #endosymbiont #protist #evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thanks @HeredityJournal!

My newly-founded lab in Poland is hiring two postdoctoral researchers :) Deadline 20th January 2023 Come, join us in beautiful Krakow! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/39109 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/39079 #postdoc #postdocjobs #symbiosis

It’s often thought #vectorbourne microbes should cause little harm to their vector host, as they rely on this host for transmission. We explore this idea in our preprint👇 on #plantpathogens, with @kaylacking and the hardwork by @santiago_mf_ 🌿🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

📖Find out more about Arsenophonus apicola sp. nov., a new species isolated from honeybees, in #IJSEM. doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.…