Elizabeth Ostrowski
Evolutionary genomics and microbiology in Aotearoa. 🇺🇸in 🇳🇿. Personal account
ecoevo.social/@elizostrow
- Rookie mistake, returning to the US: signed up for an FSA and forgot about it. In other (not unrelated) news, I am the proud new owner of a fancy foot massager 🙃
- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiIn our new study we were the first to experimentally simulate the origin of sociality! By controlling how many wasp 🐝daughters could help their mom, we found that early helpers don't just add to colony success—they multiply it!
- Here is a video that I think might be the best I’ve seen to give students an idea of what is involved in transfers and competitions. I’d like something less detailed/ specific to LTEE, though, while still covering logistics www.jove.com/v/65342/dail...
- Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowski4/ #DYK during pregnancy🤰, cells are exchanged between mothers + offspring, & even twins? Awardee @elizostrow.bsky.social will study how microchimerism mediates genetic conflict and drive resource competition. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Ostrowski! @uwbothell.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowski3/ Awardee @mixotrophe.bsky.social aims to uncover how mixotrophs (marine microbes that harness energy from the 🌞 & organic matter) strategize their metabolisms. Her project may be key to understanding our changing ocean. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Moeller! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout Ginger Armbrust
- Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowski2/ Awardee @megbehri.bsky.social will study how chaotic dynamics arise in microbial🦠 populations. Her research could transform how we predict microbiome dysbiosis across human health and beyond. 🥳 Congrats Dr. Behringer! @vuartsci.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowski✨Announcing our newest awardees, who are taking scientific leaps to uncover new knowledge across microbial ecology, marine microbiology, and mammalian genetics. Learn about their projects: bit.ly/HFAwardees Meet our awardees and hear from their #HFScouts in our 🧵/1
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- Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowski"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiAmazing example of influenza cheat/cooperator cycles in this recent paper - the repeatability of the oscillatory cycles is so striking Congrats to @alnajifg.bsky.social , @christopherbrooke.bsky.social , @vignuzzilab.bsky.social & friends www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 #socialviruses
- Does anyone have a favorite experimental evolution overview for undergraduates? Ideally one that goes into the details of fitness assays, marking strains, etc. Everything I’ve found doesn’t dig into the details sufficiently.
- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiTreating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation
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- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiHere in the uk, the government has found that £1 of spending on R&D results in £8 of benefit: www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Will I ever stop having that dream where I’ve forgotten that I signed up for a class, and today is the final? 😰
- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiI appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
- Why can’t I have more content like this?
- OMG
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Do you know ~60% of human SVs fall in ~1% of GRCh38? See our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.23057 and the companion blog post on how we started this project and longdust: lh3.github.io/2025/09/29/o.... Work with Alvin Qin - Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowski[Not loaded yet]
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- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiThrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- I love old Dicty papers. Look at this one (from 1987) depicting the morphological changes as Dicty slugs migrate. Apparently their heads (“tips”) bob up and down. Adorable
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- Kia ora Aotearoa, it’s so good to be back! ☕️
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- Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiSo many important things are discussed at conferences. When international travel is dangerous & science is under threat & research funding is being slashed & we know how bad flying is for the climate & we have technology to make it happen, the fact that all conferences aren't hybrid is wild. 🧪
- Apparently NZ’ers are just as obsessed with Costco’s NZ butter as the rest of us. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
- And this population has definitely been overtaken by the so-called “wrinkly spreaders”. I don’t know about the more gnarled looking one, which I’ve seen more than once
- First peek at our class evolution experiment this quarter — diverse Pseudomonas fluorescens colony morphologies in response to predation by amoebae.
- A little joyful practice in Seattle (in common with New Zealand) is that riders shout out a thank you to the bus driver ☺️
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- Wolf’s milk slime mold, Discovery Park, Seattle. Kid made me SO proud… (1/4)
- So, how much is everyone being charged for IDT custom oligos these days? I got a fresh quote for 2X what I paid a few months ago in NZ, and 4X what I paid at the Univ of Houston. (At UH, we also got free shipping.)
