Insect Symbiosis Lab

IMPRS

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

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Protections and Interactions in the Beewolf Nursery by Tobias Engl — Beewolves, their larvae, and their Streptomyces symbionts not only use multiple, largely different classes of chemical compounds to protect themselves against detrimental microbial co...

Thanks to @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social for featuring the amazing beewolves again including our efforts to elucidate their unique microbial & chemical ecology. (Contributed by @tcsengl.bsky.social) and available here: schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

13.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published.
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe

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