Thanks, Lee!
04.03.2026 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, Lee!
04.03.2026 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Insect herbivory dependent on a specialised bacterial symbiosis - fascinating talk by new @johninnescentre.bsky.social group leader @hassansalem.bsky.social #CMINorwich26
04.03.2026 14:45 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop:
What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper
When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET
Where: online, Webex
This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon.
www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...
Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social to work with the amazing @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social on the developmental and molecular basis of insect–microbe symbiosis.
I’m excited to be part of this collaborative project!
Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!
Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠
@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time
Interested in joining a dynamic, interdisciplinary research department? A call is open for Group Leaders at the UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology.
Please submit your expression of interest by April 13, 2026.
Further details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
How to study adaptation in organisms that we can’t see, living in environments that we can’t visit? Some thoughts in our perspective piece out today in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @biology.ox.ac.uk @stuwest.bsky.social
24.02.2026 09:28 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵
23.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 119 🔁 53 💬 6 📌 7How does treatment induced antibiotic resistance happen in real-world infections? We analysed 25k Pseudomonas isolates from 180 patients in a clinical trial to find out! TLDR: The ecological and evolutionary paths are surprisingly diverse & complex even in patients receiving identical treatment…
20.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 82 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 3
What a treat to see the work from Camila Goldy @camilagoldy.bsky.social et al., @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social now published 🫶
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thanks, Lee - was great seeing you in London!
17.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to share our work in @natcomms.nature.com!
Thankful for a great collaboration ☺️
Grateful for the support of the @humboldt-foundation.de and the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
More details below.
Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Incredibly proud of @inespons.bsky.social for tirelessly and creatively taking on this study after joining the lab as its first recruit!
@maxplanck.de, @johninnescentre.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, @dfg.de, @humboldt-foundation.de @embo.org
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We essentially find that specificity is reinforced across three scales: Partner recognition, transmission bottlenecks, and competition-based selection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We also show that when hosts are co-infected with native and non-native symbionts, both initially establish. But over development the native strain consistently outcompetes the newcomer.
Local adaptation & microbe-microbe competition provide an added, possibly final, layer of specificity.
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Even when non-native symbionts persist into adulthood and reach transmission organs, they fail to be packaged into the egg-associated spheres and are not passed to the next generation.
Transmission fidelity reinforces specificity.
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The host’s response reveals why.
Genetically distant symbionts trigger a stronger immune and metabolic response, while closely related symbionts largely mirror the native interaction.
Recognition and compatibility matter, even in obligate, heritable mutualisms.
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We found that non-native symbionts CAN colonize a new host’s symbiotic organs!
But outcomes form a gradient: Closely related symbionts fully rescue host development, whereas distantly related symbionts only partially rescue survival.
Symbiont relatedness predicts host fitness.
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To test this, we relied on tortoise beetles & their obligate symbiont, Stammera, which is vertically transmitted via egg-associated spheres.
Serving as discrete vehicles for symbiont transfer, these spheres allowed Inès to clear the symbiosis & exchange it between different species.
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How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today’s Hopwood Lecture given by Julia Vorholt- fascinating microbiome manipulations and bacterial-fungal endosymbiosis experiments. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
13.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Eusociality has independently evolved in multiple arthropod lineages
Eusociality has independently evolved in multiple arthropod lineages
Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
12.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 29 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA:
🔹 Bioinformatics / AI
🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics
🔹 Proteomics
Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
📅 Closing date: 27 February
Apply via JIC website:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/
Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏
Please share!
PhD position at the University of Copenhagen. Start date: 1st of June!
The project integrates field work, RNAseq, MALDI-MSI & FISH to explore composition, regulation, and resilience of termite host-gut symbiont metabolism.
👉 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=156...
⏳ Deadline 23/2/26
NEW: Registration is now FREE for graduate students and postdocs for the 14th Annual Yosemite Symbiosis workshop. THANKS to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation! Space is limited. Learn more and REGISTER here: snri.ucmerced.edu/form/symbios...
08.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 16 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Please share! We are looking for a postdoctoral scientist (2 years, extension possible) starting from 01/05/2026 at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social! The project focuses on plant immune receptor biochemistry and structural biology.
Deadline 09/03/2026.
Apply at: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/11-postdocto...
Thx for @mollyherring.bsky.social for featuring our recent work with @centriolelab.bsky.social and our quest with @gautamdey.bsky.social & the support of the @moorefound.bsky.social to look for the beauty in every #eukaryote out there using #Expansion #Microscopy #UExM
04.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1