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1st western blot vs. 128th western blot 🧪
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#science #westernblot #predoc #labscientist

13.08.2025 10:44 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

We tackle this question using the bacterial parasite Pasteuria ramosa and its crustacean host, Daphnia magna, which coevolve under Red Queen dynamics and follow a matching-allele model. Theory predicts such a system should show a modular network structure. Our findings reveal a more complex picture.

12.08.2025 11:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system Abstract. Genetic interactions between parasites and hosts determine how these antagonists coevolve. Networks depicting infection outcomes between host and

💡Can we use network structure 🏁 to infer underlying genetics 🧬 of host – parasite coevolution?

🔎Find out in our new paper 🥳, published in the latest issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social 👇
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#Parasite #EvolutionaryBiology #MicrobialEvolution

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12.08.2025 11:33 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

What's impressed me the most is how collaborative and supportive the lab seems. Being a newcomer can be overwhelming, but I'm thrilled to be part of the enthusiastic and brilliant "Saplings" 🌱 team (those of us characterizing SAP proteins), and looking forward to doing some awesome science in 2025!

04.01.2025 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and I managed to have some fun with my labmates :)

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I also co-created and presented a poster for an internal conference...

04.01.2025 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Learning the basics of agro-infiltration (like many of the techniques I'm learning, this one feels like magic 🪄 )...

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Handling plants: Transplanting tiny seedlings and watching them grow...

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Cloning genes into plasmid vectors...

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First 2 months as a postdoc in the Hogenhout lab = whirlwind! Big goal: characterize bacterial effectors that turn plants 🪴 into zombies 🧟‍♀️. Really cool system that I've admired for years; also my first time working with plants and doing molecular work, so I'm learning A LOT! Some highlights:
Y2H...🧵

04.01.2025 00:08 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Many examples of the diversity in morphology of insect induced galls from hairy to colorful to spiky.

Why do insect galls have such varied shapes even among closely related species?? The Enemy Hypothesis, posits that pressure from parasitoids drives the dynamic evolution of external gall traits. We have a new paper in @rsocpublishing.bsky.social on this hypothesis see more in this 🧵! 🧪 #galls

17.12.2024 05:00 — 👍 48    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1

I nominate @damiepak.bsky.social

20.11.2024 06:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

18.11.2024 09:58 — 👍 68    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 2

A pint of the living dead – making beer with zombie plants | John Innes Centre One day, a few years ago, a local teacher found something strange in his garden. The story that follows is one of plants, beer, bacteria, insects and ZOMBIES! For this Halloween special edition blog…

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/a-pint-...

16.11.2024 10:32 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 2

Thanks for putting this together! I'd be happy to join

17.11.2024 20:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0