Doran Goldman
@goldmandoran.bsky.social
UW-Madison Microbiology PhD student in the @molabuw.bsky.social, studying phage infection in microbial communities. Microbial ecology & evolution. Fan of birds, books, bacteriophages, and Beckett.
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Doran Goldman
@goldmandoran.bsky.social
· Mar 11
PNAS
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I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
Reposted by Doran Goldman
Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Early Career Scientist Awards 2026
Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6
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Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Deadline for this is tonight! Now is the time to sign up!!
SCIENTISTS.
Participate in a congressional home office visit this August to advocate for science funding!
SNAP will set up the meeting, train you, & support your message. Sign up by Aug 1 to join: forms.gle/sqcMeZn5YTsW...
#DefendResearch #ScienceAdvocacy #SciencePolicy
Participate in a congressional home office visit this August to advocate for science funding!
SNAP will set up the meeting, train you, & support your message. Sign up by Aug 1 to join: forms.gle/sqcMeZn5YTsW...
#DefendResearch #ScienceAdvocacy #SciencePolicy
SNAP Congressional District Visit Day Sign Up Form
SNAP (Science Network for Advocacy and Policy) is a grassroots, primarily graduate student-led organization working to build the next generation of science policy leaders. We’re organizing in-district...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Deadline for this is tonight! Now is the time to sign up!!
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The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
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In @elife.bsky.social: Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In @elife.bsky.social: Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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I'm excited to announced that the version of record of this article is out in @elife.bsky.social. With the other first coauthor My Tran, we found that phage resistance cause reduced beta-lactam resistance and reduced virulence phenotypes in diverse MRSA strains.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
elifesciences.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm excited to announced that the version of record of this article is out in @elife.bsky.social. With the other first coauthor My Tran, we found that phage resistance cause reduced beta-lactam resistance and reduced virulence phenotypes in diverse MRSA strains.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Prevalence of Group II Introns in Phage Genomes
Although bacteriophage genomes are under strong selective pressure for high coding density, they are still frequently invaded by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Group II introns are MGEs that reduce h...
www.biorxiv.org
May 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Doran Goldman
Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
May 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
This is a fantastic initiative and I would highly encourage folks to participate!
Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
May 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is a fantastic initiative and I would highly encourage folks to participate!
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I wrote/interviewed folx shortly after everything started to crumble in Jan, but I was re-reminded that communities prevail. There are amazing people doing beautiful things to improve our communities, and I’m excited to highlight their work. berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2025...
May 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wrote/interviewed folx shortly after everything started to crumble in Jan, but I was re-reminded that communities prevail. There are amazing people doing beautiful things to improve our communities, and I’m excited to highlight their work. berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2025...
Reposted by Doran Goldman
The 2nd Hablemos de Ciencia Symposium was a success! This event was started last year to create a venue for UW-Madison researchers to communicate science in Spanish. Science is done for and by speakers of different languages. The language(s) that we use to communicate science should reflect that!
April 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The 2nd Hablemos de Ciencia Symposium was a success! This event was started last year to create a venue for UW-Madison researchers to communicate science in Spanish. Science is done for and by speakers of different languages. The language(s) that we use to communicate science should reflect that!
Really honored to read this thoughtful perspective on our paper, thanks so much to @contaminatedsci.bsky.social!
Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly
www.pnas.org
April 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Really honored to read this thoughtful perspective on our paper, thanks so much to @contaminatedsci.bsky.social!
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1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
Reposted by Doran Goldman
shoutout to secretarybird, one of the most underrated birds
November 23, 2024 at 3:18 AM
shoutout to secretarybird, one of the most underrated birds
I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten to work with Katherine over the last five years, she’s a truly amazing and one of a kind mentor and person! Would highly encourage any interested students or postdocs to reach out to her!
Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n
Xue lab at UC Irvine
Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome
kxuelab.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 AM
I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten to work with Katherine over the last five years, she’s a truly amazing and one of a kind mentor and person! Would highly encourage any interested students or postdocs to reach out to her!
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I am mobilizing + giving free weekly science communication workshops in a private community for scientists + media who want to join the battle vs misinformation. I wasn't planning on doing this so soon but this is urgent. ALL scientists "hard" + "soft" DM with your credentials for details.
November 7, 2024 at 3:59 PM
I am mobilizing + giving free weekly science communication workshops in a private community for scientists + media who want to join the battle vs misinformation. I wasn't planning on doing this so soon but this is urgent. ALL scientists "hard" + "soft" DM with your credentials for details.
Reposted by Doran Goldman
Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
October 20, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
Reposted by Doran Goldman
If you do #viromics or study #phage communities, you’ve likely dealt with viromes & mixed-metagenomes. But how do viral communities differ between them? What does this mean for interpreting viral ecology? Find out in my latest paper with @karthik-a.bsky.social
Viromes vs. mixed community metagenomes: choice of method dictates interpretation of viral community ecology - Microbiome
Background Viruses, the majority of which are uncultivated, are among the most abundant biological entities on Earth. From altering microbial physiology to driving community dynamics, viruses are fund...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
If you do #viromics or study #phage communities, you’ve likely dealt with viromes & mixed-metagenomes. But how do viral communities differ between them? What does this mean for interpreting viral ecology? Find out in my latest paper with @karthik-a.bsky.social