Michael Gerth

Postdoc opening in my lab! Looking for someone excited about genomes, symbionts and plant–insect interactions to join our team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. 🧬🍄🌿🦟 Applications reviewed from 16 Nov. buff.ly/WZtMcGs

Still one week to apply!

Just SIX DAYS left to apply for our postdoc unravelling the secrets of trilobite eyes! Come and join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social if you're interested in vision, functional morphology, and 3D models 👀 📆Deadline 23.59 BST, 26th Aug 📢Contact me with any questions!

New King lab paper @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the brilliant @luismsilva.bsky.social on parasite shedders and spreaders: www.cell.com/current-biol...

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

NO NO NO NO NO NO Ranking science with AI-based metrics is a slippery slope. Everyone should reject it right now.

New preprint from PhD student Emily Dovydaitis with @chloology.bsky.social: We need to better account for symbionts in #biodiversity studies. Happy to hear feedback! #SymbioSky

📢 New pre-print alert! Most spiders have eight eyes, but not all - PhD researcher Antonio Galán Sánchez and Dr Andres Rivera Quiroz @naturalis.bsky.social led an exciting new analysis of the evolution of eye number and losses in spiders on a truly incredible scale! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fantastic funding opportunities for biodiversity related research projects👇 1. Synthesis Working Groups 2. Senior Fellows Please spread the words & apply :)

New paper entitled "Sea urchin eggs contain a plastid-derived structure that contributes to their development" is now out in @plosbiology.org! Here is a summary... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We are extending the deadline to Feb 27, since we still have a few slots. 👉 A semi-informal event to interact with your peers, learn about cutting-edge research, and hear from two leaders in the field (Sophie Armitage & Dieter Ebert). And it's free! 🎉 PIs, please recommend to your grad students!

A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq. Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work

Evolution can create species that look similar — or completely different. Here’s how convergent and divergent #evolution explain these patterns. At #EcolClips we take a look at classic examples to show how species adapt to their environments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnoB...

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

🎉 Big news! 🎉 We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!! We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming! 📢 But that's not all - come and join us! 👇

"The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research" by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) et al "Genomic resources have the potential to transform our understanding of the vast, still largely unknown diversity of species..." More at: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

Awsome job opportunity for a plant ecologist at University of Halle, with many amazing colleagues nearby at @unihalle.bsky.social, @ufz.de and @idiv-research.bsky.social. Halle is a very cool city. Go for it! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I'm very pleased to share the latest paper from my post doc with @kayla-king.bsky.social. We looked at how host microbiota can influence pathogen virulence evolution in a C. elegans model of infection: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀 or maybe not. a 🧵 roland @environmicrobio.bsky.social‬ ‪and Krzysztof @ktjurdzinski.bsky.social‬ already commented, please also read their posts. www.science.org/content/arti... #MicroSky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

Our new paper, just out “Superspreaders have lower gut microbial alpha-diversity and distinct gut microbial composition in a natural rodent population”. Highlights gut microbial signatures for those individuals that have the potential to spread the most infectious disease. doi.org/10.1186/s425...

We have fully funded PhD studentship available for a genomic analysis of the demise of the Mazarine Blue & Large Copper 🦋 in the UK. Interested in conservation genomics, extinction, 🦋, bioinformatics? If so, this might be the PhD for you! Full details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML401/n...

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

Our article is out. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Improving gender equity in academia depends on the workplace environment. www.idiv.de/striving-for... The Female Scientists initiative at iDiv is connecting women in science. We learned so much from each other and our community along the way.

@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others

The sky’s the limit for biodiversity research! 🌳☀️ Join iDiv on Bluesky and stay informed about new research, upcoming events, and #iDiv initiatives, including sDiv, the #InsideBiodiversity podcast, and the yDiv Graduate School.

PhD Opportunity: Last few days to apply to join my lab to explore the co-evolution of male and female genitalia in Drosophila. Feel free to DM me for more details! 🧬🐝 #PhDposition #EvolutionBiology #Genetics tinyurl.com/PhD-Drosophila

Our review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social

Two #postdoc positions available in my lab. Position 1 focusses on #phytoplasma transmission via #insects. Position 2 aims to investigate the dynamics of #symbiont #evolution in #psyllids in collaboration with @mgerth.bsky.social, Martin Kaltenpoth and Liliya Serbina. Please share.

BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky

New review on the evolution of insect male terminalia I wrote with Daniela Nunes: www.cell.com/trends/genet...

I made ,some time ago, a starter pack for Microbial #Symbiosis. I'm 100% sure it's incomplete, but short on time lately... You can reply and suggest prople/feeds/etc to add! #MicroSky #SymbioSky go.bsky.app/T8VUWCz

What happens to the #genome of #bacteria as their association with the host becomes ever more intimate?🧪🦠 A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co #evolution #genomics #microbiology www.cell.com/current-biol...

In our new study “Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?” doi.org/10.1111/1758... we summarise the diversity of terrestrial #invertebrates and discuss why #Wolbachia - the common #endosymbiont of invertebrates was not found in #Antarctica.

Congratulations to our Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Chloé Schmidt! Dr. Schmidt will give the joint Dobzhansky Prize/ASN Early Career Investigator Award talk at #Evol2024 on Sunday at 2:30 PM EDT. shorturl.at/D6P1C @chloology.bsky.social

Several positions opening in my lab and the Centre for Functional Genomics at Oxford Brookes: - 2 PhD positions via the Oxford Bioscience DTP - a fully funded PhD in my lab, co-supervised by Darren Williams, KCL - a research tech position (0.5 FTE) to help tagging Drosophila transcription factors

Excited to have done a cover illustration for the November issue of Trends in Genetics, related to our article about conservation macrogenetics! Made in inkscape.