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Today in Nature: African scientists to lead a major program to sequence and assemble reference genomes of at least 100'000 of the continents many endemic plant and animal species and domestic varieties.

Drosophila friends: this is a shot in the dark. Does anyone still have the cno[3] allele )oroginally know as aka cno[10B01])? They have it at Kyoto but as I understand it are not shipping to the US RT

Zotero 6: Your research workflow, transformed zotero.org/blog/zotero-6

Super excited to share our Nature Communications paper showing how a single (polymerase-encoding) RNA replicator spontaneously develops complexity, following Darwinian evolution. Highlights: network formation, cooperation, and host-parasite coevolution. 1/6 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super excited to share the final chapter from my grad school thesis from Hardy Lab and Irene Newton labs. Turns out methylation modulates RNA virus replication in invertebrates! A brief thread to sum up our latest results (1/3) dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Our paper describing a new and improved wMel Wolbachia strain in mosquitoes is now published! We are pleased to share this strain with the community for research and arbovirus control programs Xinyue Gu PEARG BioSciences UniMelb Bio21 Institute sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

News: Sarah R. Bordenstein and I are moving the Bordenstein Lab to One Health Microbiome Center Huck Institutes Penn State Biology Penn State Entomology Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Penn State Eberly College of Science this summer, and we are recruiting experienced staff for new vistas of microbiome and endosymbiosis research. Job call below.

Gametes lose, & symbionts win! New lab paper on symbiotic bacteria and animal sperm genomes by @KaurTweetss Brittany Leigh J. Dylan Shropshire. They elegantly show that two #phageWO #Cif enzymes from Wolbachia metabolize nucleic acids in vitro & in spermatids biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

An extremist Supreme Court is poised to overturn #RoeVWade and impose its far-right, unpopular views on the entire country. It's time for the millions who support the Constitution and abortion rights to stand up and make their voices heard. We're not going back—not ever.

This FCS Innovation Academy DNA Club team looked at whether the age of a Nasonia wasp male influences the phenomenon of cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Wolbachia when uninfected females mate with infected males. fultonk12-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal…

Excited to announce a new PNAS Nexus pub from the Brandon S. Cooper lab with the wonderful Emily Hamant! We investigate the basis of variation in Wolbachia's reproductive manipulations, and report key covariates and evolutionary insight. Check it out! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

The final article is now available! Check it out if you enjoy reading about symbiosis and want to learn about how bacteria manipulate insect host reproduction to encourage their spread! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

I'm up on the Lehigh University Lehigh CAS Biology Department faculty page! Starting to feel real! lehigh.edu/~inbios/Facult…

Interested in symbiosis? Think research on bacteria that manipulate insect sex lives is interesting? If so, I have open postdoc, PhD student, and tech positions with start dates as early as Aug '23. More details about what we do and how to get in touch: tinyurl.com/3dw24sa3

Future PhD students: NSF GRFP fellowships are due Oct 17th. If you're interested in host-microbe interactions and looking for a lab to sponsor your application, I'd love to chat about possible collaborations Lehigh University! lehigh.edu/shropshirelab

DNA Club team looking at how male wasp age affects Wolbachia CI extracting some wasp DNA. Discover the Microbes Within! Wolbachia Project J. Dylan Shropshire FCS Innovation Academy

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