Assistant Professor @VanderbiltU BioSci ⚓️| #FirstGen | Experimental microbial evolution in stressful and structured environments 🧫🧪 🧬| she/her
Nashville, TN
Joined March 2009
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Our lab is looking to hire a RA to contribute to experimental evolution studies on anaerobic & aerotolerant bacteria!
This is a great opportunity for recent grads looking to gain experience before perusing graduate training.
Info at this link: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/…
Excited to share this new Preprint from our lab led by PhD Candidate @StarlCone (defending Tues).
Here we present a framework for longitudinal rbTn-Seq & apply it to the Microbial growth curve to resolve the fitness seascape through growth, death, & Long-term stationary phase.
Bayesian analysis of longitudinal RB-TnSeq resolves the fitness seascape in fluctuating environments biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_evobio
When your dream is to be eaten but Protein Strawberry isn’t having any of it. #PopTartsBowl
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IN ONE WEEK: The next URIG Research Hour on Friday, December 19 at 3:00 PM ET (2 PM CT | 12 PM PT) will feature mentor/mentee duo Megan Behringer, PhD and Owen Hale (both at Vanderbilt University).
More information: buff.ly/yVd9SrM
@megbehri
@owenmicro
This is a huge honor & we’re so excited to get started on this new direction for our group stemming from Ph.D. Candidate William McLaughlin’s work in our lab!
Many thanks to our scout, Paul Turner & @hypothesisfund for seeing the potential in this project! Time to get to work!
Great work by @owenmicro, now out in mBio!!
Lactic acid bacteria have high mutation rates! Hale et al report the mutation rates of 3 anaerobically cultured lactic acid bacteria & discuss how domestication may contribute to #Lactobacillus acidophilus having one of the highest recorded mutation rates. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03054-2…
Excited to share our latest paper led by Ph.D. Candidate, Owen Hale, titled Elevated rates and Biased Spectra of Mutations in Anaerobically Cultured Lactic Acid Bacteria out now in @mbiojournal !
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
We found that LAB, and L. Acidophilus in particular, have very high mutation rates.
Mutations are quite biased towards G:C ➡️ A:T and A:T➡️G:C; and this is very apparent in L. acidophilus near the ori.
Our lab is hiring!!
We are looking for a research assistant who will be involved with our experimental evolution studies on how stress affects population dynamics in E. coli.
Great opportunity for recent grads!
E-mail for more info and apply here:
ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/…
Always a great night when we can get dressed up, wear goofy flamingo hats, and raise money for an amazing cause! Another great Mad Hatter in the books for @NashvilleSAC ! (Yes, we did win best couple hats!)
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An Anaerobic Pathogen Rewires Host Metabolism to Fuel Oxidative Growth in the Inflamed Gut biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_micrbio
Rage bait, but I’m very thankful to the NIH. They funded large portions of my predoctoral & postdoctoral training, as well as my current lab with our R35.
My career as a biologist would not be possible in its current form without the opportunities provided by the NIH.
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What an amazing conference! #chsmicrobiome is one of my fav meetings bc the basic science creativity is so strong. I always leave with new ideas and a new colleagues! @cshlmeetings
I have a goal for the next meeting! Have a super strong #WomensHealth representation! I’ll be encouraging our community to show up in force :)
In today’s publishing landscape, it’s pivotal that grant reviewers to pay close attention to the authorship footnotes.
Co-firsts are increasingly common & dinging people because their name comes second will hurt many women and URMs, who are more prone to offer to share credit.
Dear Reviewer, You have one job and that is to read grant properly. In case you are on X, here is my first author publication during my postdoc. science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/…
Introducing our lab’s newest Ph.D candidate William McLaughlin. William is doing an awesome microbial systems ecology project that’s already turning out some cool results. Keep an eye out for this rising star.
Megan Behringer retweeted
🚨🚨🚨Jobs at IU!🚨🚨🚨
Multiple positions in computational biology, broadly interpreted. Positions can be in multiple depts, including Biology, Informatics, and CS.
Please apply--we want new colleagues!
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/…
Megan Behringer retweeted
📢 Announcing the #ScopesSymposium! A deep dive into evolution, science, and the historic trial that shaped #evolution #education. Join us as we explore Truth, Evidence, and Discovery. Mark your calendars! @NCSE
ALT A promotional graphic for the Scopes Symposium featuring the words “Truth, Evidence, Discovery” in bold, black font across a banner at the top. The background depicts the Dayton, Tennessee courthouse from the 1925 Scopes Trial, with scientific symbols such as DNA strands, microscopes, and molecular structures overlaid in muted tones of black and gold. At the bottom of the image, text reads: "Join us July 12-13, 2025, Vanderbilt University." The overall color scheme is black, gold, and white, reflecting Vanderbilt University’s branding.