Microbial ecology & evolution at Imperial College London.
Joined July 2019
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Very happy to share our new paper in Nature Microbiogy! We measured the growth of environmental bacteria in the presence of chemical pollutants and investigated interactions in their responses to mixtures. @ic_blabs @PawarLab @CleggTom @JRosindell @EmmaRansome1
OUT NOW High throughput characterization of bacterial responses to complex mixtures of chemical pollutants by @EcologicalTom and colleagues nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
Had a fun time talking to @BBCRareEarth about microbes in the environment- tune in shortly!
Can microbes mend the environment?
Researchers @ic_blabs and @EcologicalTom, based at Silwood Park, join @BBCRareEarth to discuss how microbes could help improve agriculture and the environment 🌲
📻 The magic of microbes, @BBCRadio4, today at 12pm
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4w…
ALT Hand taking samples from the soil
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Sought: Highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Associate to join our food system resilience project, led by @UniofReading , joining a large interdisciplinary team with an excellent track record in food system research. Apply now! (deadline 5th Nov)
jobs.reading.ac.uk/internal/…
In a bit of a COVID throwback, our new paper is out in Scientific Reports! We investigated the impact of environmental conditions on the transmission of different variants during their selective sweeps: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-6…
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Communities of bacteria alter their composition in response to temperature changes, tapping into a reservoir of latent species which are better suited for these new conditions. elifesciences.org/digests/80…
Our new paper, an @ic_blabs and @PawarLab collaboration, is out in @eLife. We performed an experiment to understand the importance of species sorting in the responses of bacterial communities to temperature change. elifesciences.org/articles/8…
Some plain language summaries here: elifesciences.org/digests/80… & imperial.ac.uk/news/241834/d…
Really enjoying the first day of MMEG, great to get to share our work from the Bell lab @ic_blabs @ImperialSci #MMEG2022
Great day discussing microbial ecology and seeing the kids' artistic interpretations! @GMaceCentre @imperialcollege @ImperialSci @ic_blabs @PawarLab
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New paper in @EcographyJourna & R package: Fauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05880 1/8
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Our new paper is out today in @RSocPublishing #ProcB #openaccess We use #genomic data to investigate the history of some of the rarest plants on #Madagascar - we tackled a simple question - were these rare species always rare? bit.ly/3CA4VP0 Thread 1/7
Excited to be able to share our paper in @Ecology_Letters investigating the temperature dependence of microbial carbon use efficiency! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Our paper on systematic variation in the temperature dependence of strain-level carbon use efficiency across bacterial clades is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Thanks to a wonderful Tom-heavy collaboration with @EcologicalTom, @CleggTom, and @ic_blabs
Really happy to have this paper out in @PNASNews. We found that colder, more population-dense states had higher SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates, but that these environmental effects were negated when strong non-pharmaceutical interventions ("lockdown") were in place.
The impact of temperature and population density on COVID across the US - fantastic work led by @EcologicalTom out now in @PNASNews pnas.org/content/118/25/e201… @flaxter @IDorigatti @amandagallinat @SylviaKinosian @M_Stemkovski @EttieUnwin @charliewhittak @ojwatson92
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🇬🇧Oh hey, UK
☕️Why not enjoy Ecology Live over a nice cuppa Thursday morning at our new time of 9am
🦠Samraat Pawar from @imperialcollege will be talking about thermal constraints on microbiome structure and functioning
🤩Sign up here before 3pm today!
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TWO PhD positions open in the Waring lab! 1) Seedling dynamics in a large-scale reforestation experiment in Mexico: findaphd.com/phds/project/tr… 2) Soil carbon dynamics in rural English landscapes: findaphd.com/phds/project/ca…
