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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 months

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities . Apply before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

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Looking for a postdoc position? Are you a theoretician interested in how microbes interact and co-evolve? Join our interdisciplinary group in beautiful Lausanne! The topic is flexible. More detail and to apply:

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@saramitri

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Our department is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor on microbial interactions linked to the @NCCRMicrobiomes ! Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, ambitious department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply by Jan 31!

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@saramitri

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The Mitri lab is recruiting! Looking for a postdoc position to study how different species of bacteria grow together to form beautiful patterns? Want to spend time close to lake and mountains in Lausanne, Switzerland? Apply here: and please RT! @DMF_UNIL

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5 years

Proud to share the first paper from our lab, published at @PNASNews with work by @PhilippePiccar1 and @owbjorn showing that toxic environments can drive positive interactions between bacterial species

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

Open postdoc position: we are looking for a chemist interested in how microbial communities transform their environments (machine oils and bioplastics). Come work with a fun, interdisciplinary group in Lausanne, Switzerland. Apply here by 31.12. or RT

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@saramitri

5 years

@HarcombeLab @surt_lab @WolframMoebius @sambrownlab and I are planning a semi-virtual conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution #MEEVirtual2020 12-14 Aug. 1st: save the date! 2nd: We’re looking for ideas for excellent speakers to promote diversity and novelty! Comment and RT!

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

1 month

Our bacterial community breeding experiment is now published @NatureComms ! Huge congratulations on making a very ambitious project a reality @arias_flora and @owbjorn ! In short: you can select communities to improve pollutant degradation (with caveats)

Artificial selection improves pollutant degradation by bacterial communities

Nature Communications - Artificial selection is a promising way to improve microbial community functions. Here, Arias-Sánchez et al. evaluate a method inspired by genetic algorithms to select...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

1 year

@arias_flora and @owbjorn 's Alice Haym and Géraldine Alberti's crazy artificial selection experiment is finally out on biorxiv showing that one can use this approach to optimize microbial communities of known species composition

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@saramitri

1 year

Our latest review paper by @picot , @shota483_IL and @oliMeacock is out! We discuss how to couple experiments and models when measuring inter-species interactions in microbes (1/3)

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

8 months

Almost a decade after proposing this experiment in a grant application, we have a preprint! A huge experiment by @PhilippePiccar1 with many helping hands to generate and analyze the data especially genomic & transcriptomic analysis by Eric Ulrich!

The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community

Microbial evolution is typically studied in mono-cultures or in communities of competing species. But microbes do not always compete and how positive inter-species interactions drive evolution is...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 years

Last tweet of the day: As a relatively inexperienced PI, I am looking for tips on how to increase project ownership. How does one avoid students feeling that they work as technicians to satisfy the PI's scientific curiosity?

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

Our latest paper is out! Great team effort by Samuele Testa Sarah Berger @PhilippePiccar1 , in collaboration w/ Frank Oechslin and Greg Resch @DMF_UNIL . We show how biofilms of two P. aeruginosa strains fair when infected with phage

Spatial structure affects phage efficacy in infecting dual-strain biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Communications Biology - Testa et al. investigates the effect of strain diversity and spatial structure on success of lytic phage infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. They report that living...

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@saramitri

1 year

Very proud to share this pre-print by @rita_dimarti and @Aurore_Picot (co-first authors)! We show how two species that compete for a single carbon source can switch to interact positively if the environment becomes toxic (1/3)

Oxidative stress changes interactions between two bacterial species

Knowing how species interact within microbial communities is crucial to predicting and controlling community dynamics, but interactions can depend on environmental conditions. The stress-gradient...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 years

New preprint from our lab by Andrea Dos Santos, @rita_dimarti and Samuele Testa We present guidelines on how to design spent media assays to map out the interactions between bacterial species (1/5)

Classifying interactions in a synthetic bacterial community is hindered by inhibitory growth medium

Predicting the fate of a microbial community and its member species relies on understanding the nature of their interactions. However, designing simple assays that distinguish between interaction...

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@saramitri

9 months

Amazing to see this finally out!! Congratulations @Aurore_Picot @rita_dimarti 👏

PLOS Biology

@PLOSBiology

9 months

From competition to collaboration; @rita_dimarti @Aurore_Picot @saramitri show how 2 bacterial species that compete for a carbon source can interact positively in a toxic environment, with one species removing ROS to the benefit of the other #PLOSBiology

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@saramitri

6 years

Check out our latest opinion piece on how to deal with the complexity of microbial communities @CiccareseDavide @DMF_UNIL

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

A "very impressive" PhD defense by @rita_dimarti yesterday!!! Congratulations to another almost-Dr. 🥳💪🥂

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

4 years

New preprint from our lab by @shota483_IL in collaboration with Mauro Mobilia where we explore how community diversity changes when environments fluctuate between harsh and mild conditions

Microbial species interactions determine community diversity in fluctuating environments

Microorganisms often live in environments that fluctuate between mild and harsh conditions. Although such fluctuations are bound to cause local extinctions and affect species diversity, it is unknown...

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@saramitri

6 years

Check out our latest pre-print showing how a harsh, toxic environment can promote positive interactions between four bacterial species @owbjorn @DMF_UNIL We would love your feedback on this work!

Toxicity drives facilitation between four bacterial species

Competition between microbes is extremely common, with many investing in a wide range of mechanisms to harm other strains and species. Yet positive interactions between species have also been...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 months

Very proud to see this paper now out in @EvolLetters ! "The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community" Congratulations again to all co-authors! Check out the thread from the pre-print for details...

The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community

Abstract. Microbial evolution is typically studied in monocultures or in communities of competing species. But microbes do not always compete and how posit

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

8 months

Almost a decade after proposing this experiment in a grant application, we have a preprint! A huge experiment by @PhilippePiccar1 with many helping hands to generate and analyze the data especially genomic & transcriptomic analysis by Eric Ulrich!

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@saramitri

6 years

First pre-print from our lab: a side-project on how 2-strain biofilms get infected by phage, in collaboration w/ Greg Resch & Frank Oechslin @DMF_UNIL & don't miss co-submitted paper on same topic by @CareyNadell @knutdrescher

Evolutionary dynamics of phage resistance in bacterial biofilms

Interactions among bacteria and their viral predators, the bacteriophages, are likely among the most common ecological phenomena on Earth. The constant threat of phage infection to bacterial hosts,...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

The sad news (for us) is that @arias_flora has left the group to take up a fellowship in Berlin! The good news is that a primer that we wrote together with @owbjorn just came out in @PLOSBiology introducing a very cool paper by the @ShouGroup 1/2

Artificially selecting microbial communities: If we can breed dogs, why not microbiomes?

Microbial communities provide key ecosystem services that could be improved using artificial selection. This Primer explores recent work showing that despite its potential, this approach brings with...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

Very proud of this preprint by @owbjorn , Pablo Guridi and @arias_flora ! We present a new "disassembly" method for "breeding" microbial communities to improve community function. We test our method in silico and compare it to existing approaches.

Novel artificial selection method improves function of simulated microbial communities

There is increasing interest in artificially selecting or breeding microbial communities, but experiments have reported modest success and it remains unclear how to best design such a selection...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

4 years

Check out the brand new website for our upcoming virtual conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolution! Deadline to submit abstracts is June 15th. Conference itself is August 12th-14th. Register!

MEEhubs

@MEEhubs

4 years

Website for the Microbial Evolution and Ecology virtual 2020 conference is live! Take a look at the confirmed speakers and themes, and please fill out a registration form if you're interested in attending or presenting!

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 years

Looking forward to hosting the whole community!

Akos T. Kovacs

@EvolvedBiofilm

3 years

#ISME18 Symposium by @ISME_microbes found a new home for 2022 in Lausanne🇨🇭. Looking forward to attend again next year and enjoy the best of Microbial Ecology! Follow the conference here👇

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@saramitri

1 year

Come to Lausanne and be part of our wonderful consortium @NCCRMicrobiomes ! So many exciting scientific opportunities and a great quality of life

NCCR Microbiomes

@NCCRMicrobiomes

1 year

Job Alert @NCCRMicrobiomes ! Assistant Professor Position in Computational Metagenomics and Microbial Modeling @dbc_unil , as part of @FBM_UNIL . Come join us in Lausanne! Apply to this job now: Photo by Fabrice Ducrest, UNIL

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3 years

Excited to share another preprint, by @PhilippePiccar1 Géraldine Alberti, in a fun collaboration with Jake Alexander! we show that in a toxic environment, bacterial invasions rely on a resident community but become harder as the community co-evolves (1/6)

Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the...

Predicting whether microbial invaders will colonize an environment is critical for managing natural and engineered ecosystems, and controlling infectious disease. Invaders often face competition by...

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 months

Don't miss this fantastic conference in Heidelberg this coming October! Abstract submissions till July 10th

RokasLab

@RokasLab

5 months

Want to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding ecological and evolutionary questions? Register now for the 2024 edition of the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop. It will take place 8-11 October 2024 in Heidelberg @EMBLEvents . Only few weeks left for abstract submission (10 July).

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@saramitri

3 years

Other exciting news from the lab: @PhilippePiccar1 has become a Dr!!! 🥳🥂🍾 the first to graduate from the lab! I am so proud of so many years of hard work topped off by an amazing PhD defense AND a great party! Congratulations Dr. Piccardi 😁 @DMF_UNIL

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@saramitri

2 years

To almost-officially-Dr-Shibasaki @shota483_IL : cheers to a brilliant private PhD thesis and defense!! 💪🍾🥳

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1 year

This beautiful pre-print is a one-man show by @oliMeacock but has already become central to the way we are thinking about interactions in the lab. His new framework that can help predict how interactions between species change over time and space!

Oliver Meacock

@oliMeacock

1 year

New pre-print! My first research project with @saramitri is now live. Interactions underpin our understanding of ecosystems, but can change in hard-to-explain ways. Here, we show that many of these variations can be predicted from underlying mechanisms:

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2 years

Our latest paper is finally online at mSystems! Congratulations to Andrea Dos Santos, @rita_dimarti and Samuele Testa! 🥳 See thread below describing how we design spent media experiments to determine interactions between bacterial species.

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 years

New preprint from our lab by Andrea Dos Santos, @rita_dimarti and Samuele Testa We present guidelines on how to design spent media assays to map out the interactions between bacterial species (1/5)

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@saramitri

2 years

Typical Akos to post this before me :) Here's a thread describing the work (written at preprint submission):

Akos T. Kovacs

@EvolvedBiofilm

2 years

Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves @ISMEJournal by @PhilippePiccar1 et al from @saramitri

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@saramitri

1 year

Abstract submission and registration are live for MEEhubs2024!! We are super excited to be hosting a hub at the University of Lausanne. Submit your abstract by Sep 29th!

MEEhubs

@MEEhubs

1 year

We couldn't have said it better @wc_ratcliff ! Abstract submission and registration for MEEhubs2024 is officially open at ! Join us *for free* in person or online from Jan 9-11 to talk about microbial ecology and evolution simultaneously across the globe!

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@saramitri

4 years

Less than a week left to apply (deadline: September 1st)

Sara Mitri

@saramitri

4 years

The Mitri lab is recruiting! Looking for a postdoc position to study how different species of bacteria grow together to form beautiful patterns? Want to spend time close to lake and mountains in Lausanne, Switzerland? Apply here: and please RT! @DMF_UNIL

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@saramitri

2 years

Fun collaboration discussing how to model microbial communities. Congratulations to all co-authors, especially @NaomiIrisvdBerg !

Kiran Raosaheb Patil

@kiran_r_patil

2 years

Just out @NatureEcoEvo ! Our comprehensive review of approaches to model emergent properties in #microbialcommunities Driven by @NaomiIrisvdBerg and in collaboration with @saramitri @HarcombeLab @randomdan1el & Isabel Rocha lab

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1 year

@arias_flora and @owbjorn 's Alice Haym and Géraldine Alberti's crazy artificial selection experiment is finally out on biorxiv showing that one can use this approach to optimize microbial communities of known species composition

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

New pre-print from our lab! Work by @shota483_IL shows how cheaters can collapse the functioning of a bioremediation system and how to control the evolutionary dynamics to prevent this Your feedback is very welcome!

Controlling evolutionary dynamics to optimize microbial bioremediation

Some microbes have a fascinating ability to degrade compounds that are toxic for humans and the environment in a process called bioremediation. Although these traits help microbes survive the toxins,...

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@saramitri

2 years

@EvolvedBiofilm @JPox14 Loving the discussion and feeling compelled to join in! Here's my 🧵First, I think there's too much focus on how often we see positive versus negative interactions and instead we should be asking when we expect to see more positive or negative interactions!

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@saramitri

5 years

I'd like to join in on thanking @evokerr for organizing such an inspiring and well organized #GRCMicroPopBio ! As @carlzimmer put it, I feel like I'm now at the very edge of what we know in the field!

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@saramitri

2 years

Big congratulations to @YSchaerli for winning the outstanding undergraduate teaching award of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine! So well deserved!! 👏🥂 @DMF_UNIL

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@saramitri

7 years

Pretty cool celebrating with a #NobelPrize2017 winner! @unil

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@saramitri

3 years

Just under a week left to apply!

Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 years

Looking for a postdoc position? Are you a theoretician interested in how microbes interact and co-evolve? Join our interdisciplinary group in beautiful Lausanne! The topic is flexible. More detail and to apply:

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Thank you @simon_vanvliet and Martin Ackermann for this beautiful portrait of Alma the scientist, the friend and the wonderful human being. You remind us again of how much we have lost with Alma, but also of what we should hold on to and draw inspiration from!

NatureEcoEvo

@NatureEcoEvo

2 years

Obituary: Alma Dal Co (1989–2022) A visionary and interdisciplinary scientist who brought a fearless passion to everything she did, inspiring all those around her.

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@saramitri

5 years

Come join a collaborative project between @YSchaerli and myself in beautiful Lausanne! We are a dynamic, interdisciplinary group studying how bacteria generate beautiful spatial patterns. I will be advertising to hire a modeler on the project soon! Please RT

Yolanda Schaerli

@YSchaerli

5 years

We are looking for a post-doc to engineer microbial consortia and characterize their spatial patterns @DMF_UNIL in collaboration with @saramitri and the NCCR "Microbiomes", which will be launched this year. Check for more information. Please RT.

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@saramitri

5 years

Very insightful commentary by @s_hammarlund and @HarcombeLab in PNAS commenting on our recent paper! Thank you for putting it in context so nicely!

Refining the stress gradient hypothesis in a microbial community | PNAS

Refining the stress gradient hypothesis in a microbial community

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@saramitri

4 years

Apply to join our NCCR microbiomes as tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational metagenomics and microbial modeling at the Department of Computational Biology in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline: 26th July

Zoltán Kutalik

@zkutalik

4 years

A great opportunity to work at a dynamically developing department at @unil full of nice and talented scientists:

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@saramitri

4 years

Computational biology meets ecology & evolution: submit your abstract by May 16th!

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@BC2Conference

4 years

[BC]2 session 4: Evolutionary dynamics and ecology: where organisms, time and space interplay Are you using #ComparativeGenomics to decipher species dynamics in #Evolution and #Ecology ? 📅 Then submit your abstract now: (5/7) #bc2basel

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@saramitri

6 years

Postdoc opportunities in Kevin Foster's awesome group in Oxford!

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@saramitri

6 years

Check out our (with @NeneRiehus ) News & Views piece "Handling unpredictable ecosystems" introducing Beardmore et al.'s paper on tipping points in fungal community response to drug treatment

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

Very important discussion! Let's bring together data on microbial interactions!

Alan Pacheco

@alanrpacheco

2 years

Every day, we learn more and more about how microbes interact with each other and with their hosts. How can we ensure we’re making the most out of this growing wealth of data? 1/12

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@saramitri

3 years

New open source cell tracking software out! Can even handle motile bacterial cells

Oliver Meacock

@oliMeacock

3 years

Our cell tracking software, FAST, is now publicly available! Watch our summary video below for a quick rundown of its design and capabilities:

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@saramitri

3 years

I need to catch up after not tweeting for a while... First, I'm very proud to share that Shota Shibasaki's @shota483_IL paper in a very productive collaboration with Mauro Mobilia is now out in @RSocPublishing Interface

Exclusion of the fittest predicts microbial community diversity in fluctuating environments |...

Microorganisms live in environments that inevitably fluctuate between mild and harsh conditions. As harsh conditions may cause extinctions, the rate at which fluctuations occur can shape microbial...

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@saramitri

4 years

Congratulations Andrea!! @AndreaD78136715 #ProudPI :D

Laetitia Wilkins (Megaptera helvetiae)

@M_helvetiae

4 years

The three best posters of #UnityInDiversity @ISME_microbes Congratulations Martín, Andrea and Arthur. We are so proud of you 👍🏽

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@saramitri

5 years

If you're at #eseb2019 don't miss @owbjorn 's talk this afternoon at 14:30 on breeding microbial communities. He will be presenting some of the newest ideas we are working on: how to select at the community level to optimize a group function...

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@saramitri

4 years

Interested in microbial interactions in the mammalian gut? Check out this open postdoc position in the brand new @NCCRMicrobiomes in Switzerland!

NCCR Microbiomes

@NCCRMicrobiomes

4 years

Open position @NCCRMicrobiomes : the van der Meer lab @DMF_UNIL and the Hapfelmeier lab @Sigientist @unibern are looking for a postdoc to study microbial species-species interactions in mouse gut communities. Interested? Email contact @nccr -microbiomes.ch

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@saramitri

1 year

One to take priority in your calendars!!

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

1 year

Are you interested in gaining mechanistic insights on major outstanding ecological and evolutionary questions? 🌍 Then join the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop that will highlight the latest technological advances and focus on biodiversity. 📜Submit abstract by 10 July

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@saramitri

1 year

Submit your abstracts by October 9th! We are hosting a hub in Lausanne!

Will Ratcliff

@wc_ratcliff

1 year

Hey folks, talk submissions for the Microbial Ecology and Evolution Hubs conference are open til Oct 9! Come join us and participate in this experiment in conferencing (i.e., a global, distributed, and nearly free conference run by and for our community!).

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@saramitri

6 years

We're excited to be hosting the DMF Impromptu symposium next week (30.11.) on "Synthetic ecology: understanding, designing and redirecting microbial communities"! Check out the final program and sign up if you haven't yet: @DMF_UNIL

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@saramitri

5 years

Really cool video explaining the main finding of the paper: target public goods, not microbes

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@saramitri

2 years

If you're attending #ISME18 , join us!!

Seppe Kuehn Lab

@SeppeKuehnLab

2 years

Join us next Tuesday at #ISME18 for an exciting program in engineering microbiomes with talks from @TravisEGibson @saramitri @gaberoo @KarnaVGowda Silvia De Monte and more!

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@saramitri

3 years

Our department is looking to host a would-have-been ERC applicant! Great place to work, amazing colleagues, all you have to do is get the grant :) Get in touch before November 30th!

DMF UNIL

@DMF_UNIL

3 years

The Eccellenza has been replaced by the SNSF Starting Grant and is now open to many more scientists This means we’ve also extended our deadline. Contact us before the 30th if you are interested 👇

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Come join our wonderful department @DMF_UNIL as assistant prof in microbial biotechnology! Great location, great colleagues, facilities, and being part of a brand new consortium on microbiomes! Apply before March 21.

Yolanda Schaerli

@YSchaerli

5 years

We are looking for a new colleague (tenure-track assistant professor) in Microbial Biotechnology @DMF_UNIL Fantastic Department @unil in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland. Deadline March 21st. Please RT.

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Don't miss Alex Hall's talk: "Antibiotic resistance evolution: now wash your hands" tomorrow (14.09) at noon in the Biophore amphitheater! @DMF_UNIL @DEE_UNIL @unil_qb

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The lab aims to understand, control and design small microbial communities under controlled laboratory conditions. The PhD position can focus on predicting and controlling species coexistence, division of labor or other topics that are in line with the interests of the lab.

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Themes of #MEEVirtual2020 : Ecology, and evolution of infection; Ecology and evolution of synthetic organisms; Quantitative impacts of structure on ecology and evolution; Eco-evo dynamics in microbial communities; Cooperation, communication & conflict.

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@saramitri

2 years

Tenure-track job in our department on microbial cell biology! Deadline is approaching

Yolanda Schaerli

@YSchaerli

2 years

Apply to join our amazing Department.

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@saramitri

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@asanchez_lab ETH's conference platform at Monte Verità, Ascona, have an open call for proposals for workshops in 2024. The first deadline for submission is October 1, 2022. Too far in the future or worth applying?

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@saramitri

2 years

MEEhubs is happening! January 9-11 2024, join us at the Lausanne hub @NCCRMicrobiomes

MEEhubs

@MEEhubs

2 years

Exciting news: MEEhubs has been rescheduled and will be held from January 9-11th 2024! Mark your calendars and maps! Hubs will be in USA West (UC San Diego), Mexico (UNAM), USA East (Emory), USA NorthEast (Boston College), the UK (Oxford Uni) and Switzerland (Uni Lausanne) (1/3)

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@SeppeKuehnLab @MPI_EvolBio @AlitaBurmeister @fatiaysh @andydfarr @loukesio @TanushJagdish Couldn't agree more! Organizing a workshop, particularly of this quality is SO much work. We really appreciate bringing us together in such an enjoyable way! I'm sure next week's meeting will be just as brilliant :)

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

This really is a great opportunity for undergrads to come spend a summer in Lausanne and do some fun research! Ask @salazarafra or @GatjensDiego who were in our lab the last two summers. One week left to apply!

Yolanda Schaerli

@YSchaerli

5 years

Are you looking for an amazing internship opportunity this summer? Apply to the SUR programme @unil . For synthetic biology, choose my lab @DMF_UNIL as host lab. Application deadline January 23.

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@saramitri

5 years

Great paper by @marcutxi and @epcrocha showing that bacteria living in more structured habitats produce more extracellular proteins! Bacteria living in diverse communities produce more bacteriocins, fewer degradative enzymes and less costly proteins.

Marc Garcia-Garcera

@marcutxi

5 years

Super happy to share our @NatureComms paper, which is also my last piece of work from @epcrocha lab! "Community diversity & habitat structure shape the repertoire of extracellular proteins in bacteria"

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

7 years

Tune in later today to hear about computational biology applied to microbial ecology and evolution

SIB

@ISBSIB

7 years

The next speaker of our Virtual Seminar will be @saramitri talking on the #ecology and #evolution of small bacterial communities. Wed. 18.04, 16:00 @unil Génopode

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

3 years

Don't miss the deadline on April 1st!! Any work related to microbial community engineering is welcome!

Seppe Kuehn Lab

@SeppeKuehnLab

3 years

Submit your abstracts to ISME 18! (Lausanne, 8/14-19) @saramitri and I are hosting a session on engineering microbial communities.

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

MEE is back in August next year! Stay tuned...

MEEhubs

@MEEhubs

2 years

MEEVirtual conference is back in 2023 (August 15-17) in its new form: MEEHubs! It will be the first hub-based (I'll explain) global microbial ecology and evolution conference ever! First, we would like to know from YOU what sessions you would be excited to attend. Reply here!

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@saramitri

5 years

@PhilippePiccar1 @DMF_UNIL Sensitive cells growing in the middle of a biofilm grew less and were less likely to be infected by phage, regardless of which strains were in the biofilm

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

Love this! #StayAtHome

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

Come to Lausanne! (or elsewhere in CH :))

NCCR Microbiomes

@NCCRMicrobiomes

2 years

Are you interested in doing an internship or a short-term research stay in one of the @NCCRMicrobiomes labs? Check out our new fellowship programme! Undergraduates, PhD students and postdocs are eligible for stays of up to 12 months. Find out more here:

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@saramitri

4 months

Don't miss the approaching deadline!

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

4 months

⏰ Abstract submission deadline alert for #EMBOEvoEco 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🌳 You only have a few days left to send your abstract. The deadline is 10 July: ➡️ Don't miss out on the opportunity to be part of innovative discussions and discoveries! 🌟

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

@EvolvedBiofilm Heartbreaking to see how many brilliant parallel talks I missed yesterday! 😢

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

6 years

Don't miss our annual symposium!

DMF UNIL

@DMF_UNIL

6 years

Sign up for our annual Impromptu symposium now! This year’s edition is taking place the 30th of November on Synthetic Ecology: understanding, designing and redirecting microbial communities.

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@saramitri

2 years

@EvolvedBiofilm @JPox14 Another important point is that we are measuring net effects, which is probably a combination of positive and negative interactions that are superimposed in complex ways.

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@saramitri

2 years

@EvolvedBiofilm @JPox14 So we absolutely need what this perspective piece is doing: a meta-analysis to pull out the patterns coming from all the biased experiments :) Curious to hear what people think about these ideas!

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

Beautiful talk by @katcoyte on microbial assembly in the infant gut microbiome highlighting the importance of absolute abundance data and looking at cross kingdom interactions! #SMBE2019

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

If you are a scientist willing to volunteer some of your time, sign up here!

Milner Centre for Evolution

@MilnerCentre

5 years

Crowdfight COVID-19 are a platform aiming to redirect scientific resources towards the fight against COVID-19. This is for scientists at ALL career levels, and in ALL fields. Please see if you can help here:

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

2 years

@EvolvedBiofilm @TrendsMicrobiol @SnorreSulheim @ISMEJournal @MicrobeDaniels @MicSysEcoLab You can read it here:

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@saramitri

5 years

@arias_flora @owbjorn @PLOSBiology @ShouGroup Check out @ShouGroup 's paper at and our primer to learn about how to artificially select microbial communities 2/2

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

This is really important! Conferences will be really hard to replace but we need to start a serious debate!

Carmen Buchrieser

@cbuch2

5 years

We need greener conferences | Nature Microbiology - very interesting read, we all should indeed think about this

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@saramitri

1 year

The bottom line: beware of fitting a generalized Lotka-Volterra model if you are using batch cultures. This model is more appropriate for chemostat experiments; for batch cultures we recommend fitting a consumer-resource model. To find out why, read the paper :) (2/3)

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

7 years

ASM Microbe starts at New Orleans airport! #ASMMicrobe2017

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

6 years

Some great ideas for publishing in the digital age!

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

7 years

Incredible APND postdoc career retreat in Finhaut @unil

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

@HMicrobiome @surt_lab Can't think of any specifically about methods, but these may be helpful/interesting:

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

8 years

We are recruiting a theoretician! Get in touch if you are interested in doing a PhD on modeling microbial social interactions! Please RT

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

If you're unsure whether you should take a test or not, take this simple questionnaire: (specifically designed for canton Vaud in Switzerland)

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

Mark your calendars! #MEEM2020

Ian Sanders

@iansanders64

5 years

Modelling in Ecology & Evolution Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. 25-26 June 2020 #MEEM2020

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

4 years

@StuWest8 Stu, maybe you should commission the photographer to make you one. It was really fun working with him!

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

5 years

Come listen to an overview on some of the best microbiome research in the area! @PEngellab

DMF UNIL

@DMF_UNIL

5 years

Save the date! Thursday the 9th of April at 16h in the Biophore Amphitheater, the inaugural lecture of @PEngellab following his promotion to associate professor at our department! @unil #microbiomes

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Sara Mitri

@saramitri

4 years

Awesome story with a huge amount of work! Congrats to all authors!

silviabrochet

@silviabrochet

4 years

Super excited to share my first first author pre-print 🤩 We studied how resource partitioning facilitates the coexistence of closely related 🐝 gut bacteria...both in vivo and in vitro😎! Thanks to all the collaborators! 🤝

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@saramitri

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@biofilmbiol @EvolvedBiofilm @biofilmPapers @VernitaGordon @Cwhitch @KendraRumbaugh @Center4Biofilm @Biofilm_Lab_UCD @DevDusane @KimInSingapore @Chapman_Lab @mattchapman22 @HarcombeLab One important aspect in my opinion is the heterogeneity of the environment. Cells within the same biofilm may be experiencing very different conditions, depending on local nutrient concentrations, the identity of their neighbors, etc.

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