Duhita Sant
Postdoc at @RutgersCABM | Ecology and evolution of microbial communities | https://qevomicrolab.org
- Reposted by Duhita SantInterested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)
- Moving across countries as an Indian researcher hasn’t been easy, but it’s been deeply transformative. I wrote about my journey and why mobility is so important in science. Grateful to be part of this initiative by @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social read on and check out the full series as well!
- Reposted by Duhita SantCome to Taipei! Registration Free, Closes Jan 20th. Generous Travel Grants Available. EMBO Workshop integrating perspectives from molecular evolution, genomics, ecology, and systems biology to highlight how interactions across organisms drive adaptation and innovation. @ishengtsai.bsky.social
- Registration now open for @embo.org workshop on the evolution of biological interactions on April 24 - 27, 2026! Come join us in Taipei, Taiwan to see how interactions shaped the genomes of various organisms and meeting people from across the globe. Info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
- Reposted by Duhita SantAs we close the year, the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee is glad to spotlight @duhitasant.bsky.social , Postdoctoral Researcher at Rutgers University, and her paper “Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation”. doi.org/10.1093/isme... (1/2)
- Reposted by Duhita Sant🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8
- Reposted by Duhita SantCan we leverage bacterial competition for targeted replacement of harmful strains? Maybe! Our recent piece in @natmicrobiol.nature.com provides a theoretical framework and a set of experiments to show what it might take: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Duhita SantI'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Duhita SantThe Royal Society's Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2026 is awarded to Professor Kayla King for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics of infectious disease. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/f…
- Reposted by Duhita SantScientific mobility in microbiology – 8
- Reposted by Duhita SantI am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share! Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr... Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...
- Reposted by Duhita SantCongratulations to Dr. Kayla King who was awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal & Lecture by the Royal Society for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology & genetics of infectious disease. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @kayla-king.bsky.social @royalsociety.org bit.ly/4lGJrWB
- Reposted by Duhita SantOur high-precision metagenomic strain caller, PHLAME, is now published in Cell Reports!! www.cell.com/cell-reports... PHLAME works on tough sample types -- including those with coexisting strains of a species and low depth.
- Reposted by Duhita SantOur new paper on experimental evolution in wild tree-holes -Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation #ISMEJournal @duhitasant.bsky.social Tom Smith Edgar Wong Juli Cohen @kayla-king.bsky.social Tom Bell academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
- Reposted by Duhita SantEco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation #ISMEJournal by @duhitasant.bsky.social et al from @timbarra.bsky.social with Tom Bell, @kayla-king.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
- Reposted by Duhita SantGreat to have our new tree hole paper out!
- 🚨Fresh out of press! How do wild bacterial communities respond to environmental perturbations like liming? We experimentally evolved them to find out! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
- 🚨Fresh out of press! How do wild bacterial communities respond to environmental perturbations like liming? We experimentally evolved them to find out! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
- In this work, we present eco-evolutionary response of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation by liming wild decomposer communities living in beech tree-holes that 1) demonstrates extreme robustness of the bacterial communities to increased pH;
- 2) shows significant alterations in species diversity and composition in limed tree-holes; and 3) empirically shows genetic changes in the frequency of single nucleotide polymorphisms in MAGs that occurred at rates comparable to and correlated with ecological changes in the same MAGs.
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View full threadIt’s been a pleasure working with @timbarra.bsky.social @kayla-king.bsky.social Thomas Bell Tom Smith Edgar Wong and Juli Cohen :)
- Reposted by Duhita SantWe are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!
- Reposted by Duhita SantI am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!
- Reposted by Duhita SantNew review article with @mmdesai.bsky.social is out today! Grateful for the opportunity to contribute something we hope will serve the community well
- Reposted by Duhita SantCongrats to both of you. The GRS is in good hands.
- Excited to get to work on GRS 2027 with @duhitasant.bsky.social!! Hit me up here or via email if you have any feedback or ideas for the next Micro Pop Biol GRS!
- Reposted by Duhita SantExcited to get to work on GRS 2027 with @duhitasant.bsky.social!! Hit me up here or via email if you have any feedback or ideas for the next Micro Pop Biol GRS!
- Still winding down from the Microbial Population Biology GRS/GRC!🦠 It was a great experience to be GRS co-chair with @mikeblazanin.bsky.social, and congrats to the newly-elected GRS chairs @noahhoupt.bsky.social and @duhitasant.bsky.social!💃 #GRCMicroPop #MicroSky
- Thrilled to have been elected as GRS co-chair along with @noahhoupt.bsky.social Looking forward to the 2027 meeting! #GRCMicroPop
- Still winding down from the Microbial Population Biology GRS/GRC!🦠 It was a great experience to be GRS co-chair with @mikeblazanin.bsky.social, and congrats to the newly-elected GRS chairs @noahhoupt.bsky.social and @duhitasant.bsky.social!💃 #GRCMicroPop #MicroSky
- Reposted by Duhita SantStill winding down from the Microbial Population Biology GRS/GRC!🦠 It was a great experience to be GRS co-chair with @mikeblazanin.bsky.social, and congrats to the newly-elected GRS chairs @noahhoupt.bsky.social and @duhitasant.bsky.social!💃 #GRCMicroPop #MicroSky
- Reposted by Duhita SantThis week I am at the #GRC meeting for Microbial Population Biology. It is my favourite meeting. There is nothing like these small meetings for gathering a community together, and I learn a huge amount here every time. Here is to 40 more years of this incredible conference!
- Reposted by Duhita SantPostdoc in Experimental Evolution available at the University of Alberta with collaborators in our exciting HFSP project on predicting evolution in Candida communities! I Apply this month 🧫🥼📈 apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
- Reposted by Duhita SantLooking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days! go.bsky.app/GGxRjzCat://did:plc:biu33qzl4taulu3ns5vkitw4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lt3c5yncqg2l
- Reposted by Duhita SantOur paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Why don’t people who live together have the same strains of microbes? Tami Lieberman (@contaminatedsci.bsky.social) and I put forward one underexplored reason in our new preprint: Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes
- Reposted by Duhita SantNew pre-print is finally out! This is the first project from my postdoc with Alejandro Couce, looking at how mutation-bias influences adaptation across large population sizes, and how this may have real world consequences. Really happy with how this turned out :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Excited to share that I’ve been awarded the prestigious 2025 Peggy Cotter Award from @njmicrobe.bsky.social (NJ branch of @asm.org ) and the Career Development Grant for Postdoctoral Women from @asm.org!
- Grateful for the support and recognition from @asm.org to attend #ASMicrobe 2025 and the GRC/GRS on Microbial Population Biology. Looking forward to connecting & sharing science! 🧬✨ #WomenInSTEM #Microbiology
- Reposted by Duhita SantWe have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems #MicroSky
- Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601
- Reposted by Duhita Sant1/ In our new paper, we explored whether obligate mutualisms can survive abrupt stress via evolutionary rescue. We found that evolutionary rescue is possible—but it comes at the cost of mutualism. @jfriedman.bsky.social #microsky #evosky #mevosky
- Reposted by Duhita SantIs it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Abstracts for ASM Microbe 2025 are now open (asm.org/Events/ASM-M...) I’m excited to announce that I’ll be convening a session under the EEB track, and we’re thrilled to have the amazing @petrovadmitri.bsky.social and @deepaagashe.bsky.social speaking in the session.
- It’s going to be an insightful discussion you won’t want to miss! Be sure to register, and join us in Los Angeles, June 19-23, 2025! 🙌
- Reposted by Duhita SantPhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and amazing stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes that are unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Duhita SantApplications are open for the Microbial Population Biology GRS and GRC! The GRS is a fun day for grad students and postdocs to network before the full GRC starts, and is co-chaired this year by me and Laura Suttenfield Get your applications in by Jan 15! #evosky 🦠🧪 www.grc.org/microbial-po...
- Reposted by Duhita SantI wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Duhita SantHi BlueSky friends! Postdoc(s) available in my lab! Multiple projects on how bacterial genomic and functional diversity impacts microbial interactions & disease. 🦠🧫 See www.thelewinlab.com/join-us/post... for more information. Please RT & share. #Postdoc #Microbiology #OralMicro #VaginalMicro
- Reposted by Duhita SantTried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added! A thread (1/3) go.bsky.app/6pkuYhiat://did:plc:biu33qzl4taulu3ns5vkitw4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l6xukeebid2h
- Reposted by Duhita SantProud to have been part of this work with Chris Blake, Tim Connallon and @mikejmcd.bsky.social on how community evolution can alter ecosystem tipping points. Please check it out below! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Duhita SantI am recruiting a postdoc in statistical physics, computational biology, or a related field to study the predictability of evolution in microbial communities. Please share! Details: qevomicrolab.org/wp-content/u... Apply by May 1 here: forms.gle/hMNgrh3Ja5dP...
- Reposted by Duhita SantHaving posted about the review @proteocean.bsky.social and I wrote about colimitation in microbes, I also want to share the research preprint on this that we recently wrote as well, along with @krishnaaswin77.bsky.social, Donat Crippa, and Anastasia Dragan. doi.org/10.1101/2023... 1/4
- Reposted by Duhita SantThis paper was really fun to write! Unpicking the subtle differences between dependencies, facilitation and cooperation in microbial communities, and why it matters. With Elze Hesse (not here yet!)
