Penny Kahn 🏳️‍🌈

Cuboidal cell packing is a common yet understudied route to multicellularity. In work led by @PineauRozenn and @ozan_g_b, we explore its origin as a multicellular geometry capable of supporting a transition in individuality using fission yeast. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔴 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…

@_isratjahan @sarperotto @TreyJScott_ Don't worry, I gotchu @_isratjahan @TreyJScott_ @pmshreenidhi and Calum Stephenson. You guys were awesome and I'm excited to see what you all do with Dicty

I had a great time presenting at #Evol2023 !! Thanks so much to the organizers and everyone else who made this conference amazing. So fun to see friends old and new ❤️ Until next year!

I also want to give a special shout out to my incredible supervisor. Congrats @sarperotto on your Lifetime Achievement Award! I don't think there is anyone more deserving, and I'm proud to be a part of the large group of people who would not be where they are today without you

#evolution2023 Are you interested in spatial structure, microbes, multi-level selection, or community-level directed evolution? I am hiring a postdoc to use community-level selection to study spatial dynamics in microbes. Within that theme, there is tons of freedom

@TomBooker12 and I are looking for a postdoc interested in the genomics of local adaptation. We hope to harness better information from gene genealogies in genotype environment associations. Please see docs.google.com/document/d/1iL… for more info. See me at #Evol2023 or email.

Hi folks, we have a new preprint out on the #MuLTEE, examining the molecular basis of multicellular evolution. We found that an ancient protein folding system, Hsp90, can be tuned to drive rapid convergent multicellular evolution. 1/24 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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

@sarahlewisboyer @Macalester Thanks you Sarah! 😄

So proud of my former @Macalester student @pennyckahn who coauthored this incredible work!

@gerlame @wc_ratcliff Thanks Rachel! 😊

Check out this thread by @wc_ratcliff describing our new published work! I can't express how fortunate and proud I am to have been a part of this. Congrats to all

A journey of a lot of collaboration, hard work and microscope time has just been published in Nature! Congrats to these folks, I am incredibly lucky to be a part of this project. @wc_ratcliff @ozan_g_b @YunkerLab @dahaj1897 and others I missed. Article: #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158…

And now with a more accurate title! Also a gift link, so it should not be behind a paywall. nytimes.com/2023/05/10/sci…

Out now in @Nature: De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity By G. Ozan Bozdag, Seyed Alireza Zamani-Daha, Peter Yunker, William Ratcliff & colleagues. @wc_ratcliff nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25 Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9

Check out this absolute STAR 🤩

Congratulations to evolutionary biologist & @ZoolgyUBC prof Dr. Sarah Otto (@sarperotto) on winning a #KillamPrize2023. @nrc_cnrc #UBC thestar.com/life/health_we…