Iain Johnston
@mitomaths
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Stochastic Biology Group: using maths, stats, and experiments to learn about biology and disease. We love organelles and oDNA, evolution, noise, and inference.
University of Bergen, Norway
Joined January 2013
News! (and RTs much appreciated). Norway has funding opportunities for excellent researchers outside Europe to join projects like this one. If you're interested in (a) biomathematics, bioinf, or mitochondria and (b) Norway (it's awesome), drop me a DM! .
Mountain run to celebrate grant success! MitoPhyto, a FRIPRO project, will combine modelling and microscopy to explore mitochondrial and mtDNA maintenance across non-bilaterian multicellular eukaryotes. 2 PhD positions (maths/expt) will be announced ASAP.
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RT @ArimuraShin: 🎉 ICPMB2026 — the International Conference on Plant Mitochondrial Biology — is coming to Kagoshima, Japan!.Our official we….
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RT @mako_bio: Reactivation of mammalian regeneration by turning on an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch | Science .
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In which ChatGPT identifies my age and profession from the tech stack in my public-facing GitHub repositories
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RT @mueda_lab: Our new preprint is out on bioRxiv!.Live gametes deep inside reproductive tissues of an angiosperm, liverwort, and fern can….
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Now out (in pre-proof form) in @BiophysJ ! Thanks to reviewers and journal staff for their energy and helpful comments. Much appreciated! @Rajnees39169525.
Thanks for posting! In this preprint we took a modelling look at a debated question: what cellular conditions (physical arrangement and dynamics of mitochondria, arrangement of energy sinks) are required to support substantial gradients of ATP in a single cell's cytosol.
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RT @evol_genomics: Divergent plastid genomes in the deepest-branching apicomplexan parasites @GenomeBiolEvol.
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Mountain run to celebrate grant success! MitoPhyto, a FRIPRO project, will combine modelling and microscopy to explore mitochondrial and mtDNA maintenance across non-bilaterian multicellular eukaryotes. 2 PhD positions (maths/expt) will be announced ASAP.
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RT @ras_nielsen: Preliminary program now available for ProbGen 2026: We have an amazing set of speakers let by our….
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Bidding a fond farewell to EvoConBiO today, the ERC project that's been with us for nearly 6 years! Lots of fun working on this, and particularly with some really excellent and inspirational colleagues. Some results below, many more still to come. Thanks @ERC_Research and @UiB !
Associated with today's talk, here are some EvoConBiO links:.I. II. , , III. .Reviews: (next post)
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RT @mbiojournal: An emerging class of machine learning methods (EvAM) can help learn and predict the pathways by which multidrug resistance….
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Newly out in mBio -- learning how AMR features evolve and interact, with evolutionary accumulation modelling (EvAM)!.Image shows inferred pathways through the "transition network" between different drug resistant states in TB (susceptible -> panresistant).
RTs much appreciated. would love to reach both AMR and biomath folks! ."Evolutionary accumulation modelling in AMR: machine learning to infer and predict evolutionary dynamics of multi-drug resistance".We think EvAM methods have some potential in AMR. 🧵
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Gratulerer med dagen alle sammen!.(non-Norway-based folks, happy Norwegian Constitution Day!)
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RT @ras_nielsen: Two new postdoc positions in Computational/Statistical Genomics and Statistical Population Genetics, respectively, at the….
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Just ghastly conditions for a recent meeting, hearing about exciting interdisciplinary approaches to combat AMR (including mathematical ones.!)
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In some species across kingdoms, mitochondria have lost all sorts of functions: from specific complexes to the ability to produce ATP (and more!). We took a look at the evolutionary pathways of this reduction, from yeast and mistletoe to parasite "MROs":.
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RT @Hansong_Ma: We are recruiting a postdoc to study mtDNA maintenance. Apply before the 3rd of June!!! .
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