Evolutionary microbiologist 🧪🧫🧪 Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, co-advised by Dr. Vaughn Cooper and Dr. Kathy Shair
“You modify your surroundings, your social network, your informational diet, your daily routines, and then your modified environment modifies you, every day, whether you think about it or not.”
James McInerneyTake a few minutes to read. This is the next in my series about what we learn from evolutionary biology. Free to read, as always. open.substack.com/pub/profmcin...
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary TimesHow to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracyordinarypeopleextraordinarytimes.comMy PhD work with the inimitable Joy Bergelson looking at local adaptation in a super-cool generalist pathogen that nucleates ice and decimates your favorite crop plant 🌱 👾 🧬 Thrilled to see this out (& reminded by @vscooper.micropopbio.org to celebrate each win)! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Adaptation without Dominance in Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars - Microbial EcologyUnderstanding local adaptation of phytopathogens has significant practical and economic implications. The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas syringae exemplifies this challenge, causing regular epidem...link.springer.comReading the 1975 paper as a graduate student and realizing they were the same person was absolutely mind blowing
Jeremy BergThis is a GREAT interview. Definitely worth a listen.