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It’s great to have Semhar back for the summer as a research assistant! And Simone is now officially doing his Master project with us!

Go-karting!

And mini-golf

A new assistant has joined the team: Guillermo Miguel García Osuna!

Read our latest publications: the first discusses how microbial migration can increase the effectiveness of horizontal gene transfer, such that ecologically important loci can sweep through populations. This can shape microbial genomes and the ecology of different species. The second paper studies the effect of resource abundance on spatial patterns in bacterial colonies. It shows a fundamental link between the structure of bacterial groups and a near-universal feature of biological systems: nutrient limitation.

On August 3rd, Philippe Piccardi started working on the project as a research associate. Let the fun begin!