11 Feb 2025

Shane attends a BioGeoSCAPES International Implementation Committee meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

17 Jan 2025

New co-authored paper with Teppo Hiltunen's group in Nature Ecology & Evolution looking at evolution and resilience in a metacommunity framework.

3 Jan 2025

Check out Rogier Braakman's paper in Science Advances on cross-feeding interactions between SAR11 and Prochlorococcus. Also check out the press release from MIT News.

31 Dec 2024

Shane has a new paper in Ecology Letters looking at the contribution of evolution and species sorting to microbial community dynamics.

10 May 2024

Shane has a new paper in Microbiology Resource Announcements announcing 30 closed bacterial genomes.

6 November 2023

Shane attended the international BioGeoSCAPES science planning workshop in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

16 October 2023

Milla Similä successfully defends her MSc thesis. Congrats Milla!

4 September 2023

Shane, Milla, and Amanda will attend the Experimental Evolution and Community Dynamics workshop at the Tvärminne Zoological Station in Tvärminne, Finland.

18 June 2023

Inga-Katariina Aapalampi successfully defends her MSc thesis. Congrats Inga-Katariina!

29 May 2023

Olli Pitkänen successfully defends his MSc thesis. Congrats Olli!

3 May 2023

Shane is awarded a Research Council of Finland Academy Research Fellowship to fund the group for the next 4 years!

19 January 2023

Shane has a new paper in ISME J on microbial predatory-prey coevolution!

5 January 2023

Thomas Hackl's paper on novel mobile genetic elements in Prochlorococcus is out in Cell!

16 June 2022

Shane gives an invited talk at the BioGeoSCAPES Pan-European workshop, EU 2022 Euromarine in Zagreb, Croatia.

3 May 2022

Shane gives a plenary presentation at the Tvärminne Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses in Tvärminne, Finland.