Alejandra Rodriguez

Microbial movement into soils occurs at a surprisingly local scale. By measuring dispersal rates and spatial patterns, this study challenges the assumption that microbes freely mix across environments. 🔗isme-microbes.org/close-to-home-… #microbes #fungi #bacteria #dispersal #ecology

Only 10 days left to apply: We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution. You will have the opportunity to interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details: shorturl.at/iiiOv

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards. Deadline is 10/16: simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/04/sim… #science #ecology #evolution

@EvolvedBiofilm @ZhihuiXu2 @GuohaiHu @KostChristian @DTUbioengineer @LeidenBiology @MicroClockERC Looking forward to reading it! 😀

Fun collaboration with @ZhihuiXu2 + collaborations with @GuohaiHu at BGI/China National GeneBank and @KostChristian at Uni Osnabrück Funding throughout 2020-2025 is appreciated through #CeMiSt at @DTUbioengineer, @LeidenBiology Startup and #ERCSyG @MicroClockERC [4/n]

See the accepted paper of @XinliSun in @ISMEJournal, highlighting how the presence of a biofilm beneficiary alters the evolutionary trajectory of a biofilm former academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-… Xinli stayed 2 years at DTU as part of her PhD performing this experimental evolution [1/n]

@nonresidentdesi @ScienceMagazine Congratulations to you and your co-authors!!! 🎉 This is amazing 🤩

Insightbut perspective on our @ScienceMagazine paper 👉🏽science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Meetings

PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and high stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. kxuelab.com 1/2

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025

The strength of interspecies interaction in a microbial community determines its susceptibility to invasion -in @PLOSBiology bsky.app/profile/evolve…

New: Elizabeth Duan, Olivia Kosterlitz (@livkosterlitz) & Benjamin Kerr (@evokerr) spotlight the @NatureEcoEvo article by Alfonso Santos-Lopez (@ASantosLopez), Alvaro San Millan (@AlvSanMillan) & team on mobile elements as agents of rapid adaptive change. tinyurl.com/2u25mynh

Dunlop School Faculty & Undergrads: Join us for May the Fiber Be with You, the first talk in the Mind, Body, World & You series led by Associate Professor Katrine Whiteson, on November 20 at 4 p.m. Fiber-rich foods will be served after the talk! Register: bit.ly/Healthy_Microb…

@EvolvedBiofilm @MicroClockERC @MarthaMerrow @LMU_Muenchen @ant_dodd @JohnInnesCentre @LeidenBiology @LeidenScience @ERC_Research Congratulations! 🎉

I love seeing our own @toby_hammer around town, even on the side of @UCIrvine busses! @UCIBioSci @UCI_Microbiome

New work out in @eLife! Possibly the last one in our series on bacterial aggregation behaviours on polysaccharides. We knew cells were engaging in collective behaviours. But how do they know when to leave and why? We provide potential answers in this work elifesciences.org/articles/93855

As usual @EvolvedBiofilm is on top of things! I'm very proud of this work lead by PhD candidate Zahraa Al-Tameemi in my lab. And I'm happy this is published in the great journal mSystems!

@KostChristian @EvolvedBiofilm @eisharmhatre @nonresidentdesi Me too ☺️

@EvolvedBiofilm @eisharmhatre @nonresidentdesi Oh how I would have loved to join this meeting

Just in time visit in Zürich for a seminar before @eisharmhatre (1st PhD graduate of my 1st research group) and @nonresidentdesi leaves Europe for the other side of the pond- thanks for the lovely discussions and dinner!

Can we use machine learning to identify blood-based biomarkers to help predict and prevent suicide? Researchers at UC Irvine School of Medicine believe this might be possible. @UCIMedSchool bit.ly/4e91gdV

@LabSpiritu Muchas felicidades! 🎉

So cute clip. 😂