Philipp Engel

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts - Nature Microbiology In this Perspective, Morris and Bohannan discuss heritability of microbiome-mediated traits across hosts and future research questions with implications for animal and plant breeding.

New perspective with a comprehensive overview of the microbiome heritability concept

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PhD studentship! Deadline Dec 11th 2024 SWbio application link: https://www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular-and-biophysical-studies/ For inquiries, please email: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Based in: University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK....

I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky

More info:
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Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe | mSystems This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about climate change. Instead, we are demanding imm...

CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msys...

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Super nice work Omaya! Congrats.

Today in our #Symbiosis and #Evolution seminar series: @andrewhq9.bsky.social on the #HoneyBee #microbiota and the metabolic crosstalk between and among host and symbionts

@dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky

Very happy to see this published! 🤩Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. This is the result of a very nice collaboration with the @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes.

Join us in the south of Portugal for the SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis. 10-13 June. Registration is open until 15th March. More details at igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky

SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis Olhão, Portugal   About Hosts and microbes form long-term symbiotic interactions that shape their biology at multiple levels, from physiology...

#SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe #Symbiosis. June 10 - 13, 2024. Olhão, Portugal

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#SymbioSky

Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax

Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT
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Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi - Na... Comparative metabolomics and NanoSIMs reveal that the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi uses host-derived metabolites to colonize the gut, indicating adaptation to a specific metabolic niche in it...

Finally published! We show that host metabolites facilitate gutcolonization of a symbiont of social bees. Huge congrats to co-lead authors @andrewhq9.bsky.social & Yassine El Chazli. Super collabo with NanoSIMS expert Anders Meibom EPFL and our Electron Microscopy Facility FBM_UNIL 🐝 🧪

We have a ‘new’ preprint spearheaded by @joanitoliberti.bsky.social It is not an easy one to get pass the editorial desk of journals, may be because we challenge previous findings. However, IMO it is an important contribution to our field & will help improving future gnotobiotic bee experiments 👇🧪

Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪

A new preprint from our collabo with the Schaerli lab at UNIL. Amélie Cabirol and Audam Chhun teamed up with others from the two labs to investigate fecal sampling and transplantation in honey bees 🦠 🤓 🐝 to better understand gut microbiota transmission. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome betwee... Background Strain-level diversity is widespread among bacterial species and can expand the functional potential of natural microbial communities. However, to what extent communities undergo consistent...

After two long incubation periods at the journal's desk, our #metagenomics study on #strain level differences in the bee gut microbiota has been published. Big thank you to 1st author Gilles Baud, Kirsten Ellegaard, & @aiswarya.bsky.social l who pushed the paper across the finish line. 🧪 🐝 🦠

2023 ISB Microbiome Series Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities

Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social

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Almost time for our annual, in person, Impromptu symposium! November 24 in the Biophore at UNIL in Lausanne. This year's topic ‘The many sides of microbial evolution’ with 7 fantastic speakers. Registration is free at: forms.gle/NnLkTXbFTmLE...

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat

Aerial picture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Quad, showing multiple buildings. Including the Illini Union in the foreground and Foellinger Hall at the other end of the main quad.

For the INSECT MICROBIOME crowd: The Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois will be hiring an Assistant Professor in Insect Microbiomes. Please share this ad with any one working in this area. (Application deadline = October 6th)

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SymbNET is a EU-funded network for research on host-microbe symbiosis symbnet.eu. We participated in a SymbNET workshop with the labs of Luis Teixeira and Hinrich Schulenburg. We had fruitful discussions about recent results, novel approaches and challenges in studying animal-microbe symbiosis.

Neuroactive metabolites modulated by the gut microbiota in honey bees

MolMicro Mini Review from Engel lab

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Mosaic of 120+ NanoSIMS images showing 15N-ammonium uptake in Green Hydra.

That feeling when you spent three weeks on a NanoSIMS mosaic just to falsify your initial hypothesis… At least 15N-ammonium uptake in the Hydra-Chlorella symbiosis looks pretty.
#microsky #evosky 🧫🦠🔬

Asgard archaea defense systems and their roles in the origin of immunity in eukaryotes bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Eukaryotic immunity in Asgard archaea! Excited to share preprint looking at viral defense systems in Asgard archaea! We found that archaea played roles in the origin of immunity in eukaryotes.

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Assistant Professor - Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development - Department of Molecular and Ce... University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Our department mcb.berkeley.edu is soliciting applications for an Assistant Professor position studying fundamental aspects of genetics, genomics, evolution, and/or developmental biology. Bring it on! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04110

Just one week left to sign up for the mentorship programs! Join now! We'd love to have you 🤗

I'm really excited to announce that the 2023 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series registration site is live! 🥳

We will host a 2-day bioinformatic course and a 1-day symposium Oct. 11-13.

This year's theme is 'how the ecology of our guts protects us from pathogens' 🛡️

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