Bacterial evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of bacteria over multiple generations. It occurs through mechanisms including natural selection and genetic drift, and can ...

Point mutations are often thought of as the raw material of evolution; these small changes ... us insights into the evolutionary pressures on bacterial pathogens.

The bacteria is notoriously drug-resistant, and several antibiotic treatments are no longer effective in treating it. If evolution makes bacteria like this more invulnerable, prevention and ...

“It shows for the first time that something that is very important for the evolution of a pathogen—phage transfer—is triggered by the action of the pathogen itself during infection.” Some ...

Away from the world of bacteria and evolution, another one of my passions is children's' literature. In 2022, I sat on the panel of the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize, which ...