#MicroEvo22 was a fantastic meeting. Great line-up, great talks, great conversations.

✅ perfect length of sessions and breaks ☕
✅ 10am start to allow travel and encourage late-night socialising 🍷
✅ conference dinner mixing people across institutions and career stages 🐔 🐣

Can we do this every year?

#MicrobialEvolution

Day 1 of #MicroEvo22 had #plasmids #phages #phageplasmids #microbiomes #genomes #CRISPR #zoonosis #capsules #HGT #antiviralimmunity #fungi #mutators #siderophores #compost #soilmicrobiome #marinemicrobes #heavymetals #adaptiveradiation #T6SS #competition #cooperation #mutualism #multilevelselection 😅

Every single talk was amazing and the poster session was buzzing! — day 2 promises to be equally exciting

#MicrobialEvolution

#Introduction

I’m a Post-doc at the University of Oxford, working on the evolution of bacterial genomes and pangenomes. I’m interested in bacterial cooperation and ecology, and how these might interact with horizontal gene transfer.

I’m on the train to Manchester for the #MicroEvo22 meeting, where I’ll be presenting a poster (no. 17). Looking forward to seeing lots of you there!

#Bacteria #SocialEvolution #Plasmids #HorizontalGeneTransfer #Pangenomes #ComparativeGenomics

Ahead of #MicroEvo22 next week I thought I'd take the pulse of the microbial evolution field...

It is in rude health!

Here is a plot of the proportion of microbiology papers that are about microbial evolution: this has grown consistently since 2000 and in 2021 made up >12% of microbiology papers (or 9700/78000)

#MicrobialEvolution #EvolutionaryMicrobiology #ExperimentalEvolution