Marc Chevrette

After I finished my PhD, the next big question I wanted to ask is finally answered! I am very proud to share our new paper on the discovery of #salamander produced antimicrobial peptides and that these peptides influence salamander skin #microbiomes nature.com/articles/s4152…

I've been teaching General Ecology @UFBiology and experimenting with ways to help make learning fun. One way I've found particularly useful, is through web apps (games and simulations). Feel free to use them, fork them or steal them. A work in progress. ufduttonlab.github.io/teaching/

@ChrisLDutton @AmandaSubalusky @UFBiology @UF_CLAS @UF @GlobalGators @UFNews Yesssssss. Love you guys.

So fun to watch @AmandaSubalusky's tenure talk in a packed house @UFBiology, tying together biogeochemistry, animal movement and nutrient cycling across several continents and ecosystems around the globe! 💪🙏 @UF_CLAS @UF @GlobalGators @UFNews

Bryan Cranston is Gordon Lightfoot

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This is how we started implementing the similarity metric (GATOR Focal Scores) and how it actually turned out

GATOR-GC is out at @NAR_Open !!Check out our new targeted genome mining tool featuring a novel similarity metric to efficiently compare and deduplicate gene clusters. We uncover biosynthetic diversity missed by other genome mining tools academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Establishing Conserved Biosynthetic Gene Clusters of the Phylum Myxococcota biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements | Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

Great to be able to promote the #ISBA2025 Special Collection we are putting together with @MicrobioSoc - contact me if you wish to submit and thanks also to @MicrobioSoc for sponsoring the ECR-mentors lunch

Thursday! Episode 92 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres of the Univ of Florida joined the #QualityQuorum to discuss studying evolution of metabolic pathways in the deep ocean. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/nNcXGmh9CZo?si…

If you are a PhD student in microbial interactions or natural products that is displaced by this political bullshit and looking for a new lab, I have room for one (or potentially two) PhD students in my group in the fall when I move to UW. Feel free to reach out via email.

Boston strong

I came to the US as an international student and it changed my entire life — opened so many doors. Harvard ban will impact many US schools as international students will be uncertain about enrolling. Other countries will benefit the most as students now need safer options.

It is so exciting to be getting started here at the UofT!

Captive-bred axolotl thrives in restored wetlands in Mexico City - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

antiSMASH8: The Ocho Manuscript is out! doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

.@umncvm welcomed Dr. Sandra Loesgen (@LoesgenLab) from @Whitney_Lab @UF for a RIDE Seminar on discovering novel compounds from fungi and bacteria. Her global research explores how natural products can lead to therapies for cancer & neurological diseases. z.umn.edu/ad8f

Thrilled to learn that our polyketide review article is ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by @ChemBioChem in 2023!

New paper on co-zorbs from my lab. Co-zorbs seem to be a new way for bacteria to get around. Magesh, et al. (2025). Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species. PNAS, 122(6), e2417327122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…