SeppeKuehnLab
Physics and biology of microbial communities. Structure, function, evolution. Center for the Physics of Evolving Systems. Dept. of Ecology and Evolution. UChicago. @NITMB, @CLS. kuehnlab.org
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabThe Abreu lab at NYU is hiring another postdoc! We study microbial ecology and evolution, using yeast/bacteria microcosms, DNA barcoding for evolutionary lineage tracking, and simple mathematical modeling. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179949
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabIt’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabHello, Chicago! I'll be giving a public talk on Wednesday about reporting on science in these rocky times. events.uchicago.edu/event/259056...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabBlog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabOur recent paper in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance is a great example of scientific serendipity: after staring at thousands of bacterial growth curves over many studies, we started wondering whether the curve shapes themselves carry mechanistic information 1/9 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabHave a research group you’d love to bring to NITMB? Apply for an NITMB Focused Research Group Award, welcoming small groups of participants from multiple institutions to gather at NITMB to focus intently on independent, ambitions joint research projects www.nitmb.org/research/foc...
- We're hiring faculty at the interface of climate systems engineering and ecology -- climateengineering.uchicago.edu/opportunitie...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabExcited to share some new work led by grad student Sophie Walton (w/ @petrovadmitri.bsky.social). We used in vitro gut communities to study how natural selection acts on strains of the same species as they compete within larger communities. Check out Sophie's thread below for details!
- Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Schmidt AI + Science. Amazing fellowship opportunity at UChicago! apply.interfolio.com/173322
- Great new paper from Kyle Crocker -- a talented postdoc in the group who is ** on the job market now ** !! @kylecrocker.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- New paper out (doi.org/10.1093/isme...) with fantastic grad students Abby Skwara and Rathi Kannan! Advised by the excellent @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social and @amurugan.bsky.social. Overview in the thread below.
- Center for Living Systems -- seeking strong post docs at the interface of physics and biology. Consider applying by Oct. 13! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- This important contribution sharpens the ill-defined concept of functional redundancy in microbial communities. It's a term we use a lot, but the exact meaning is elusive, and this paper is the first to sharpen it via proper null models. @ po-yi ho and KC Huang. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabMathematical Frameworks for Stability, Evolution, and Control in Microbial Communities Explore new NITMB-Supported Research from @ssm57.bsky.social (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social (Associate Professor, University of Chicago)! tinyurl.com/378ua7ws
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabOur paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures! 🧵
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLab🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLab📢 We're seeking a postdoc to work on a project funded by HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social at the intersection of bacterial physiology, ecology and evolution. You can find more details about the project, the position, and how to apply here www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project! #bacteria #ecosky #MevoSky #microSky
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabExcited to report that Joy Bergelson (bergelsonlab.org) and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the Function of Evolving Systems in the summer of 2026. The 2028 one will be chaired by Mikhail Tikhonov (physics.wustl.edu/people/mikha...) and @asanchezlab.bsky.social! Stay tuned!
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabI am really happy to share that there will be a @nitmb.bsky.social workshop next year on mathematical and biological features of evolutionary game theory. It was really fun to co-organize this workshop with Olivia Chu, Alex McAvoy, and @jplotkin.bsky.social. www.nitmb.org/evolutionary...
- Story from UChicago press office - biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/soil-mi...
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabThe Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
- Reposted by SeppeKuehnLabNature research paper: Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change go.nature.com/3IqdJzd
- This work was supported by @nitmb.bsky.social, National Science Foundation, NIH, @cziscience.bsky.social , Simons Foundation, UChicago. bsky.app/profile/sepp...
- New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 2. Microbiomes are complex functional systems. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in soils - complex: thosuands of species in a spatially,chemically, and dynamically complex environment - functional: collective metabolism drives biogeochemical cycles of C, N, etc…
- 3. Soil microbiomes retain this complexity and functionality in variable environments - temperature, nutrients, light, pH, oxygen. How? This is the fundamental question.
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View full threadTHANKS! To all those involved and the work this was built on. Especially important for us were the classic Jim Tiedje papers of 80s and 90s and the work that started in our group with @karnagowda.bsky.social + Kyle Crocker.
