New year, new job (and new research published)

I have joined the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University as Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation. I am looking forward to establishing a group here and to teaching in Ecology, Conservation, and Biodiversity.

I want to acknowledge all the people how have been very supportive since I moved to the UK, especially Greg Hurst, who was a great mentor and a lot of fun to work with, and Kayla King, who helped me with the transition to Oxford. Thank you!


New research with my input was also published:

• Ewa Chrostek and myself revisited evidence for natural Wolbachia infections in the important malaria vector Anopheles gambiae and found that its not very convincing. See a very brief summary here and read the preprint here.
• Together with Eliza Glowska and colleagues from Poznan University, we have analysed the microbial communities of quill mites using amplicon sequencing. Read the preprint here.
• Two novel alignment-free algorithms for phylogenetics were developed by Burkhard Morgenstern's group – and they were using Wolbachia as case studies. The tools are called Multi-SpaM  and Prot-SpaM.
  
• Our opinion/review piece (with Christoph Bleidorn) on the usage of MLST markers in Wolbachia research was published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology.