How does evolution add new functions to proteins that are billions of years old? Our new paper explores how an ancient, essential component of the translation machinery (initiation IF2) evolved new ways to help bacteria survive environmental stress. Out now! 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🌟 Know a rising star in host-microbe interactions? Nominate an exceptional early-career scientist to author a minireview in #IAIJournal’s 2027 New Voices in Microbiology Collection. Submit your nomination by Aug 31: asm.social/32H

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Our next speaker this morning is down the drain, Greg McCallum from University of Liverpool: "The hospital sink drain microbiome: a melting pot for antimicrobial resistance plasmids" #Meehubs26

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MEEHubs2026 is underway! We had a great start in the first two sessions with Zurich and Manchester hosting some excellent talks! It's not too late to join us virtually via last-minute registration: meehubs.org #MEEHubs2026

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very cool. old questions, new methods = nuanced view of evolutionary landscape of selection, chance, and contingency elifesciences.org/articles/103...

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