Tardigrade microbiome! Nice paper Piotr Łukasik 🌊🐻

Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research UCL East campus! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air sampling for terrestrial biomonitoring jobs.ac.uk/job/DIV449/res… application deadline 19 Aug

New pre-print! Defensive symbionts only occur in some insect species, but why? We show that symbiont distributions strongly align with sharing the same parasitoids, highlighting antagonists as key agents shaping symbioses across host species. 🪲 More here rb.gy/5t4s4w

Scientists need more time to think. Strong agreement with this little excerpt from Nature. nature.com/articles/d4158…

New planthopper phylogeny based on genomes! The fairyland of symbiosis. 🧚

We are still looking for a postdoctoral candidate, previous experience with Transposable Elements and/or chromatin would be great, but also other backgrounds like EvoDevo please get in touch, we work on many different systems and topics, new advert here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

So its out Genome Biology: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. All you need to know about DNA methylation in annelids🪱! This has been a great collaboration with the Martín-Durán lab lab, led by kero guynes. One of the main findings is that the methylome erodes throughout development and beyond! 1/

More cool evolving E.coli to be a mutualism work by Takema Fukatsu and Ryuga Sugiyama. 🦠

Wow, so cool! cell.com/current-biolog…

Cool paper on convergent losses of a symbiont in gall forming insects! Nice work by Hansen Lab Patrick Degnan et al. 🦠🌺

Great work by Ben Jenkins, Tom Richard’s and crew on host control of symbionts.

Wonderful review on beetle symbioses by Hassan Salem and Marleny García Lozano, check it out! 🪲

Two Injured ctenophores can fuse into a single organism? Bonkers! cell.com/current-biolog…

Vince and I are currently recruiting grad students for a variety of projects. Please pass on this flier to anyone you think would be interested!

⭐️Fully funded PhD in our lab through BBSRC LIDo⭐️ If you are interested in studying how symbionts can be used to block vector borne disease contact us! 🪲🦠 Info and link to apply below (please re-Tweet! 🙏): lido-dtp.ac.uk/apply/apply-ic…

Join my lab Blizard Institute for a 3 year Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funded post-doc exploring how glycans shape the skin microbiome and colonisation resistance in #amphibians!!!! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

Amazing new species of carnivorous caterpillar discovered!

Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug

Amazing work on a super cool defensive symbiosis by Takema Fukatsu Takema and team! 👏