Our review article is out! Check it out now and find more how microbes degrade plant toxins 🥦🦠💐🌺

#ribesday2023 Magda Rogowska-van der Molen presenting her very interesting research on insect microbe interactions in theme ii stress adaption @RIBESresearch

Great to see @SilviaCoolen presenting our work on microbial interactions in the Southern green shield bug w/ Magda Rogowska-van der Molen #KNVM2024

We have a 2-year postdoc position available on microbial metabolite biomarkers for immunotherapy outcome! Are you interested in this project at the interface of analytical biochemistry, microbiology and clinical practice? Please apply before May 20th. ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Check out our latest paper at The ISME Journal 🎊

Last week I handed in my PhD thesis titled "Unwavering friendship: Exploring insect-microbe symbiosis in Nezara viridula". I'll publicly defend my PhD on July 3rd at 12:30. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this research 🪲 Cornelia Welte Robert Jansen @SilviaCoolen @RIBES

Go and check out my interview about pest insects 🪲

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Thanks Magda Rogowska-van der Molen for this brilliant goodbye present! This is me in the lab 🤣 cultivating some bright green microbes (I guess there was no bioreactor lego) @RIBESresearch

We are on #mSystems ASM cover! Anna Michalik's microphotograph shows a ball formed by specialized symbiotic bacteria within the oocyte of a planthopper. This is a stage in symbionts' transovarial transmission, dating back >300 my. Link to our article below!

Some news 🎉 Elated to share that our work will soon be supported by an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant! There will be openings to join the lab, so if you are keen to learn how plant pathogens double as insect mutualists, do reach out! Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen #ERCStG

#MicrobiologyMonday: During wastewater treatment, microbes secrete proteins that help transform waste material. Scientists analyzed the secreted proteome of activated sludge, providing insights into how different microbes function together. #mSystems: asm.social/24E

From Eggs to Guts: Symbiotic Association of Sodalis nezarae sp. nov. with the Southern Green Shield Bug Nezara viridula biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Sodalis alert! Our latest preprint is now available on biorvix. In the paper we described a novel Sodalis nezarae species and its symbiotic associations with Nezara viridula. Go check it out! 🦠🪲 Cornelia Welte @SilviaCoolen Robert Jansen Alejandro Manzano Marín (@amanzanom.bsky.social) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Novel insights into the factors that shape insect gut microbial communities were found! Rogowska-van der Molen et al. demonstrate that N.viridula harbors toxin-degrading bacteria that could support its resistance to plant defenses. academic.oup.com/femsec/article… #FEMSMicrobiolEcol

New Research: A sequencing-based method for quantifying gene-deletion mutants of bacteria in the intracellular environment frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Microbiology

Submitted. Accepted. Published! My last and final PhD paper has been published in FEMS. We described egg microbiome of Nezara viridula and characterized novel symbiotic Sodalis nezarae species 👇 Cornelia Welte Robert Jansen @SilviaCoolen Alejandro Manzano Marín (@amanzanom.bsky.social) academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

Who shapes the lives of insects? Of course bacteria! If you want to know more how Sodalis nezarae and others do it, check out my latest #FEMSmicroBlog fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…