Bibek Parajuli🏳️‍🌈🇳🇵

Made lemon rosemary chicken. Added grape tomatoes because I love grape tomatoes.

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Leaffooted bugs enrich local soil with their horizontally acquired symbiont https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.03.673988v1

Increased host diversity limits bacterial generalism but may promote microbe-microbe interactions Abstract. Host-associated bacteria vary in the number of host species they occupy. By colonizing many host species, host generalists can have disproportion

Increased host diversity limits bacterial generalism but may promote microbe-microbe interactions

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Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic Precision microbiome programming for therapeutic applications is limited by challenges in achieving reproducible colonic colonization. Previously, we created an exclusive niche that we used to engraft...

Engineering the gut microbiome in people with hyperoxaluria to avoid kidney stones
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I’m thrilled to share my first review about microbial ecology + mosquito-borne disease control! Bacteria block pathogen development in the mosquito gut, but which bacteria will produce long-lasting results in the field? Let’s think about colonization and persistence in the mosquito gut! (1/4)

An endosymbiotic origin of the crimson pigment from the lac insect | PNAS Symbioses with microorganisms expand the genetic and metabolic repertoire of many insects. The lac insect Kerria lacca (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) ...

I once visited Mayan ruins in Mexico and was told that is not known how they were able to make such bright blue colors. Also heard the same about bright red ones. It turns out, at least for the red color, a fungus is responsible! Read more here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations!!

Childhood pneumonia deaths have plummeted in Nepal, and more lives can still be saved—

In the early 1980s, Nepal’s children suffered from some of the highest death rates from pneumonia in the world, with over 1,400 deaths for every 100,000 children under five.

In Nepal, women are turning forest fire risks into thriving green businesses.

With support from @fao.org, they’re restoring ecosystems, creating jobs, and protecting their communities. 🌿

Read their story 🔗 bit.ly/3Gm5G5i

#EarthDay #GenerationRestoration

Acquisition of an obligate environmental symbiont may be limited in the arboreal environment Abstract. Many eukaryotic organisms have environmentally acquired microbial symbionts. In animals, microbes commonly occupy the gut and may supply critical

Finally out! My first manuscript in the books.

#scisky #symbiosis #entomology

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Excited to share that @bibekbugs.bsky.social and I will be hosting a member symposium at #EntSoc25 in Portland, Oregon titled "Inside and Out: proposal, Inside and Out: Roles of Environmental and Gut Symbioses"

Looking forward to seeing folks in Portland!

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