Zachary M. Bailey
@zacharybailey.bsky.social
Interested in all things phages and microbiology. Post-doc at the University of Bern in Terrestrial Ecology and Theoretical Ecology and Evolution.
I had a really great time at ESEB 2025. I think the organizers did a great job 👍, and it was a truly gargantuan effort. I am excited that the next ESEB is a hub conference. I hope that future ESEBs also decide to go plant based and plastic free to become even more sustainable. #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027
September 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I wish all the best to everyone completing the Marie Curie fellowship application for next week. It's a big endeavor and you're in the home stretch now! Best of luck! #grants #mariecurie
September 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I wish all the best to everyone completing the Marie Curie fellowship application for next week. It's a big endeavor and you're in the home stretch now! Best of luck! #grants #mariecurie
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New beginnings!✨
Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :)
Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments!
Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :)
Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments!
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New beginnings!✨
Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :)
Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments!
Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :)
Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments!
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The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...
August 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...
Come to my talk on Thursday if you want to hear about some soil microbial metagenomics! We are studying how climate extremes affect soil microbial communities. #ESEB2025
Getting started at #eseb2025
Looking forward to seeing lots of cool science in the upcoming week
@zacharybailey.bsky.social
@wachalak.bsky.social
@dhanyabharath.bsky.social
@ellamrb.bsky.social
@lorhab.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing lots of cool science in the upcoming week
@zacharybailey.bsky.social
@wachalak.bsky.social
@dhanyabharath.bsky.social
@ellamrb.bsky.social
@lorhab.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Come to my talk on Thursday if you want to hear about some soil microbial metagenomics! We are studying how climate extremes affect soil microbial communities. #ESEB2025
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Phages on the big screen! 🎬 Premiere of a brilliant film about phage therapy by our friend Thomas Häusler - powerful story, a great panel discussion, and inspiring conversations over the apero. 🧬🥂 #PhageTherapy
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Phages on the big screen! 🎬 Premiere of a brilliant film about phage therapy by our friend Thomas Häusler - powerful story, a great panel discussion, and inspiring conversations over the apero. 🧬🥂 #PhageTherapy
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Look at this very cool #luxart of the late great Elio Schaechter by Jennifer Quinn 🤯😍
(wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social )
(wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social )
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Look at this very cool #luxart of the late great Elio Schaechter by Jennifer Quinn 🤯😍
(wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social )
(wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social )
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Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Does anyone have suggestions on a UV Transilluminator for gel imaging?? We are in the market for one and apparently there are so so many to choose from. #gelimaging #gelectrophoresis #science #pcr
March 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Does anyone have suggestions on a UV Transilluminator for gel imaging?? We are in the market for one and apparently there are so so many to choose from. #gelimaging #gelectrophoresis #science #pcr
This looks really cool! Another banger from Andrew Millard. I am excited to try this out later!
🚀 Excited to share our new paper: taxMyPhage: Automated Taxonomy of dsDNA Phage Genomes at the Genus and Species Level 🦠🔬!
Big thanks to all collaborators, especially @milja001.bsky.social & Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén! 🙌
📄 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
Big thanks to all collaborators, especially @milja001.bsky.social & Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén! 🙌
📄 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
taxMyPhage: Automated Taxonomy of dsDNA Phage Genomes at the Genus and Species Level | PHAGE
Background: Bacteriophages are classified into genera and species based on genomic similarity, a process regulated by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses. With the rapid increase in...
www.liebertpub.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This looks really cool! Another banger from Andrew Millard. I am excited to try this out later!
With all of the uncertainty in the US regarding NIH funds. I wanted to share that the NIH MHRT program allowed me to do an internship abroad and is directly responsible for me being where I am today. It allowed me to connect with European research institutions, get my masters and my PhD here.
February 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
With all of the uncertainty in the US regarding NIH funds. I wanted to share that the NIH MHRT program allowed me to do an internship abroad and is directly responsible for me being where I am today. It allowed me to connect with European research institutions, get my masters and my PhD here.
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This hurts new and early career investigators (like me) the hardest. Most of us finished our postdocs & started our labs during the COVID-19 pandemic with shutdowns and supply issues at that time. Now we’re being hit with ::all of this::
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This hurts new and early career investigators (like me) the hardest. Most of us finished our postdocs & started our labs during the COVID-19 pandemic with shutdowns and supply issues at that time. Now we’re being hit with ::all of this::
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
My fiancé got me an amazing valentine's day gift. Now I get to add an E. coli and T4 phage to my collection.
February 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
My fiancé got me an amazing valentine's day gift. Now I get to add an E. coli and T4 phage to my collection.
Happy Valentine's Day! If you know me, you know I love to put comics at the end of my presentations. Here is one such comic done by The Amoeba Sisters for Valentine's Day.
February 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! If you know me, you know I love to put comics at the end of my presentations. Here is one such comic done by The Amoeba Sisters for Valentine's Day.
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☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️
2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution
ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution?
Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution
ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution?
Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️
2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution
ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution?
Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution
ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution?
Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
⚠️This is not your average preprint on antibiotic resistance. This preprint is a really interesting story from several researchers of my former lab about human gut-microbiota and one potential way AMR resistance is maintained. ☠️
🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
⚠️This is not your average preprint on antibiotic resistance. This preprint is a really interesting story from several researchers of my former lab about human gut-microbiota and one potential way AMR resistance is maintained. ☠️
I was super happy to see this come out after hearing about this project during the MEEHubs conference in 2024. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this!
Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host
Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...
www.science.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I was super happy to see this come out after hearing about this project during the MEEHubs conference in 2024. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this!
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Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host
Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I have finally decided to switch from X (which I rarely used) to BlueSky (which I look forward to rarely using).
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
I have finally decided to switch from X (which I rarely used) to BlueSky (which I look forward to rarely using).
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Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in!
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...
November 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in!
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...