November 2024: Ellie's paper Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture, is posted as a preprint

September 2024: Kesther joined the lab as an undergraduate

September 2024: Célia has started a new position a an ECDC EUPHEM Fellow at Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Congratulations, Célia!

August 2024: The NSF has awarded a grant for our work on plasmid evolution!

August 2024: Célia's review, From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance, is published in Annual Review of Microbiology!

August 2024: Siân has started a new position a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center and an Assistant Professor at SUNY Albany. Congratulations, Siân!

April 2024: Natalia and Siân's paper, Diverse and abundant phages exploit conjugative plasmids, is published in Nature Communications!

March 2024: Shreyas passed his quals. Congratulations, Shreyas!

March 2024: Ellie was awarded an Kirschstein-NRSA/F31 fellowship from the NIH/NIAID for her work on phage discovery!

March 2024: Sophia passed her quals. Congratulations, Sophia!

March 2024: Tatiana joined the lab as a postdoc

March 2024: Michael was promoted to Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

February 2024: Natalia successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Quinones-Olvera!! 🍾 🎉

February 2024: Kepler joined the lab as a PhD student

January 2024: Anurag's paper, Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution, is published in Science!

December 2023: Adele joined the lab as a Master's student

September 2023: Natalia, Fernando, and Celia give talks at the EMBO Plasmids as vehicles of AMR spread meeting

September 2023: Shreyas joined the lab as a PhD student

August 2023: Siân is awarded Best Talk at the Evergreen Phage Meeting!

August 2023: NSF awarded a grant for our work on plasmid-dependent phages!

May 2023: Anurag's paper, Resolving Deleterious and Near-Neutral Effects Requires Different Pooled Fitness Assay Designss, is published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution!

April 2023: Karel's paper with Simone and Natalia Efficient and Robust Search of Microbial Genomes via Phylogenetic Compression, is posted as a preprint

April 2023: Anurag successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Limdi!! 🍾 🎉

April 2023: Sophia joined the lab as a PhD student

March 2023: Natalia and Siân's paper Diverse and abundant viruses exploit conjugative plasmids, is posted as a preprint

March 2023: Siân and Ellie's collaboration with Akos Nyerges and the Church Lab, A swapped genetic code prevents viral infections and gene transfer, is published in Nature

February 2023: Siân's collaboration with Charlie Dulberger and the Rubin and Hatfull Labs, Mycobacterial nucleoid-associated protein Lsr2 is required for productive mycobacteriophage infection, is published in Nature Microbiology

November 2022: Jasmijn's paper Lineage abundance estimation for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using transcriptome quantification techniques, is published in Genome Biology

November 2022: Michael receives the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology PhD program

August 2022: Anurag's paper Resolving deleterious and near-neutral effects requires different pooled fitness assay designs, is posted as a preprint

July 2022: Natalia won the best poster award in the Evolution and Ecology section at Viruses of Microbes 2022!

May 2022: Anurag's paper Parallel changes in gene essentiality over 50,000 generations of evolution, is posted as a preprint

April 2022: Cristina's paper: Decreased thermal niche breadth as a trade-off of antibiotic resistance, is published in The ISME Journal

March 2022: Amy passed her qualifying exams. Way to be qualified, Amy!

March 2022: Indra has been recognized with a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for the Fall 2021!

February 2022: Siân's collaboration with the Balskus lab, The bacterial toxin colibactin triggers prophage induction, is published in Nature

January 2022: Célia joined the lab as a postdoc!

January 2022: Karel Brinda has started a new position as INRIA Starting Faculty, at INRIA, Rennes, France. Congratulations, Karel!

December 2021: Indra passed her qualifying exams. Way to be qualified, Indra!

November 2021: Siân and Natalia's paper appeared on the cover of Cell Host and Microbe!

October 2021: The NASEM consensus report Michael contributed to, Combating Antimicrobial Resistance and Protecting the Miracle of Modern Medicine, has been released

October 2021: Fernando joined the lab as a postdoc!

September 2021: Siân and Natalia's paper: Prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity, is published in Cell Host & Microbe

August 2021: Cristina Herren has started a new position as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University. Congratulations, Cristina!

August 2021: Jasmijn Baaijens has started a new position as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at TU Delft. Congratulations, Jasmijn!

August 2021: Amy joined the lab as a PhD student

June 2021: Indra joined the lab as a PhD student

April 2021: Karel's paper: Simplitigs as an efficient and scalable representation of de Bruijn graphs, is published in Genome Biology

March 2021: Michael's collaboration with Lee Kennedy-Shaffer and Bill Hanage, Perfect as the enemy of good: tracing transmissions with low-sensitivity tests to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, is published in The Lancet Microbe

March 2021: Michael has received a 2021 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School

February 2021: Ellie passed her qualifying exams. Way to be qualified, Ellie!

October 2020: Jasmijn is awarded the 2020 BioSB Young Investigator Award! Congratulations Jasmijn!!

October 2020: Arya joined the lab as a PhD student

October 2020: Michael's collaboration with the Zhang Lab at Rice, Metastable hybridization-based DNA information storage to allow rapid and permanent erasure, is published in Nature Communications

August 2020: Ellie joined the lab as a PhD student

July 2020:Siân and Natalia's preprint posted: Prophage-encoded phage defence proteins with cognate self-immunity

June 22, 2020:The wet lab has resumed limited activity with infection control measures.

June 2020: The lab has been awarded a Pew Biomedical Scholarship for 2020-2024! 🎉🎉🎉

June 2020: Victoria and Siân's paper, Forensic microbial system for high-resolution object provenance, is published in Science!

May 9, 2020: Ellie helps the NC Dinos (NC 다이노스) throw out the first pitch.

March 13, 2020:The wet lab closes for Covid-19.

February 2020: The lab has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2020-2022! 🎉🎉🎉

February 2020: Karel's paper, Rapid inference of antibiotic resistance and susceptibility by genomic neighbour typing is published in Nature Microbiology!

January 2020: Kaylee joined the lab as a research associate

November 2019: Elle is awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for 2020! Congratulations, Elle!

October 2019: Lucy and Jasmijn join the lab as postdocs

October 2019: Eve's Thesis wins "Best Master Thesis in Life Sciences and Technology" at EPFL! Congratulations, Eve!

September 2019: Siân and Natalia are contributing authors on The fitness landscape of the African Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 strain D23580 reveals unique properties of the pBT1 plasmid in PLOS Pathogens

July 2019: The lab has been awarded a MIRA/R35 Outstanding Early-Stage Investigator Award by NIH/NIGMS for 2019-2024! 🎉🎉🎉

July 2019: Michael contributes to Cell Host and Microbe's Voices on overcoming antibiotic resistance: Sustainable Stewardship Needs Evolution

July 2019: Eve presents a poster at the Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference.

June 2019: Siân presents three talks and two posters at ASM Microbe, and wins a travel award! Wow.

June 2019: Mische joined the lab as a summer undergrad

May 2019: Elle joined the lab as a summer undergrad

March 2019: Natalia passed her quals. Congratulations, Natalia!

February 2019: Anurag passed his quals. Congratulations, Anurag!

February 2019: Cristina speaks at ASLO 2019 in Puerto Rico

October 2018: The lab has been awarded a 2018-2023 Packard Fellowship!

August 28, 2018: Karel's preprint posted: Lineage calling can identify antibiotic resistant clones within minutes

September 2018: Eve joined the lab as a master's student

September 2018: Michael speaks at the Southern California Microbiome Symposium

September 2018: Michael speaks at Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics, Siân and Karel present posters

September 2018: Cristina speaks at ISME in Germany

August 2018: Anurag joined the lab as a PhD student

July 2018: Natalia joined the lab as a PhD student

July 2018: Michael speaks at Microbial Stress Response GRC

May 2018: Isabel joined the lab as a summer undergrad

April 2018: Michael speaks at the Harvard MSI Symposium

April 2018: Simone joined the lab as a master's student

April 2018: Siân joined the lab as a postdoc

March 2018: Victoria joined the lab as a technician

February 2018: Scott joined the lab as a visiting postdoc

February 8, 2018: Cristina's preprint posted: Stronger connectivity of the resident gut microbiome lends resistance to invading bacteria

September 2017: Cristina joined the lab

August 2017: Michael speaks at the Microbial Darwinian Medicine Workshop

July 2017: The lab has started! Karel joins the lab as a joint postdoc with the Hanage Lab at HSPH

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