Alex N Nguyen Ba

@alex_nguyen_ba

Postdoc in Desai lab. Studying evolution and high-throughput quantitative genetics.

Joined July 2018

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    Jan 23

    We evolved citrate positive cells from the in minimal citrate for 2,500 generations. A fascinating tale involving transposons, gene amplification, and...cell death!! Work led by Zack Blount, Rohan Maddamsetti, and !

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    Jan 17

    “I think people can confuse academic bullying with academic freedom.”

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    Jan 6

    “I want every faculty hiring committee to look closely at the people around them...I want them to forego the national search for the possible star..[and] reward local favorites...”

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    What say you, ? Any reviving interest in the Drunk Science concept?

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    20 Nov 2019

    This week on the Nature cover: Waves of mutation. Barcode system images evolutionary dynamics of laboratory yeast. Browse the issue here:

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    15 Nov 2019

    A renewable barcoding system reveals the evolutionary dynamics of laboratory budding yeast, showing that fitness changes over time in a travelling wave of adaptation that can fluctuate owing to leapfrogging events, according to a Nature paper.

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  8. What does evolution look like? We developed a rebarcoding approach to observe the travelling wave of adaptation at extremely high resolution. See short summaries by co-authors , in the lab of . Read the paper here:

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    3 Aug 2019

    Finally “Chance and necessity in the pleiotropic consequences of adaptation for budding yeast” with , , is on . This was the most difficult paper that I have worked on, and the last one from my postdoc with .

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    11 Jun 2019

    I feel like the preprint that and I posted this past week is a substantial advance in our understanding of epistasis and so I'd like to say a few things about it that might be better on twitter than in print 1/n

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    2 Jul 2019

    Super excited to report that our paper on evolutionary signatures in highly diverged intrinsically disordered regions has been accepted for publication in ☺️ the PDF is available here: !

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    29 Jun 2019

    Maybe my samples are biased, but I found most non-single academics who managed 2-body problems and thrive as PIs have the spouses either sacrificed their careers or also co-hired in academia. Any cases of successful duo-career couples of academia/industry combo? Advice/caveats?

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    Hypothetical question: say you’re submitting a paper that combines work you completed partly as a postdoc & partly as a new PI (50/50 for sake of argument). Better to take first or last author position [of 5 total]? I see pros/cons for both but curious what others think...

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    26 Apr 2019

    I am thrilled to announce I'm starting my lab this fall. The Bisson Lab will investigate the cellular organization and cytoskeleton dynamics in the astonishing archaeal world. Keep an eye out for open positions - and our website filled with cool movies like these

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    1 Apr 2019

    Ok tweeps. I have launched my blog. I am no expert in web design so it will probably undergo some changes as I figure things out. In the meantime, check it out: Feedback welcome and is awaited with trepidation.

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    30 Mar 2019

    Our Evolthon paper, with 60 authors, 30 labs, presenting the new community challenge to develop new methods for lab evolution, is published in PLoS Biology. Thank you all participants it was a great working on it.

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    Wouter is extremely smart. PhD from Princeton. Harvard postdoc. First-author pubs in JEP:G, Psych Science, Nature Human Behavior. ~400 citations last year alone. 40 apps, 3 interviews, 1 offer. Read Wouter's thread for some insight into what it's like to bear the job market.

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    18 Mar 2019

    Excited to finally share our today! We found proteome-wide signatures of function in highly diverged disordered regions: 1/n

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    13 Feb 2019

    here our new cool cover, colonies of Blastobotrys illinoisensis, download here: many thanks from Amanda Hulfachor for the picture and for the artwork

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    14 Feb 2019

    The push to include more female speakers in conferences has some undesirable consequences. Organizers, responding to current incentives, are keen to invite senior women like me, but reluctant to take my male trainees as substitutes. 1/5

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