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What a great paper title! And an amazing idea for a study.

Looking for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2021! If you or someone you know is interested in opportunistic pathogen evolution including interactions with host and host microbes please contact me. Our application deadline is January 15 - biology.uncg.edu/graduate/phd-e…

#SciTwitter TELL ME ABOUT YOUR COOL STUFF! I am developing a new course next semester on “Emerging Model Organisms: How thinking outside the box advances science and medicine” and want to hear about the awesome, new systems you are working on or excited about! Please RT!

Today our paper with first author Matt Doremus (@symbiontmrd) was published in Frontiers in Microbiology. Matt shows (literally beautifully) with localization of Cardinium, that CI modification happens in the pupal stage: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our first major paper! This one took a lot of blood sweat and tears... and saliva authors.elsevier.com/a/1cDQkL7PXcLj…

So. Many. Genomes!

If no one has said it already... the Current Biology cover is pretty sick! Great work from Takaaki Daimon 京大昆虫生理 / Lab of Insect Physiology, Kyoto U.

Super happy for amazing PhD student silviabrochet. She elegantly combined gnotobiotic bee with co-culture experiments to recapitulate coexistence patterns observed in vivo in vitro and to study underlying mechanisms using transcriptomics and metabolomics. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We’re looking for diverse talks on all aspects of the order #Hymenoptera! International Society of Hymenopterists is such a lovely and welcoming society, and I’m helping organise the Australasian session of #Hymathon2021 - so come be part of the fun! #entomology hymenopterists.org/hymathon-a-24-…

Holy crap look at these gorgeous videos: Honey bee behaviours within the hive: Insights from long-term video analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

The Elde lab has two open positions for research technicians. One involving a new mouse model exploring the evolution of broad-acting antiviral genes... utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/113404 And the other pitching in on various lab projects... utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/113402 Please apply or share

Plant-associated and herbivore-associated symbionts are intensively studied in plant-insect interactions. But what about parasitoid-associated microbes? They play a role too! We hope to generate more awareness in this opinion paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new report in the Annals of the ESA details 34 species of fungi that are parasites of termites—an effort spurred by researchers puzzling over mysterious growths on termites collected in South America. Megan Wilson LT • PhD @JessicaLWareLab Phil Barden entomologytoday.org/2021/05/07/mys…

Holy Shik...imatogenerans! What a cool paper. Pesticide breaks bacterium-beetle mutualism. Great work to check out when/if you are recovering from teaching this semester.

Plasmid acquisition affects host fitness differently across species in the same community. Cool work on plasmids in natural hosts.

Please RT! Our lab is looking to add multiple positions, including a technician and a postdoc. If you're interested in plant molecular genetics and coevolution, check out our lab website and get in touch. #postdocjobs sites.google.com/site/danielbsl…

Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut nature.com/articles/s4158…

Back from the grocery store, I noticed my black beans were full of Callosobruchus maculatus. I found they have extracellular Staphylococcus gut symbionts. Only published last month! Great work Aileen Berasategui,Nicole Gerardo & Hassan Salem aem.asm.org/content/early/…

Of course #lichens are cool, but did you know that thalli have viruses too? Our #preprint describes dsDNA viral diversity in cyanolichen metagenomes. Great collaboration with 'omics experts Alise Ponsero Bonnie Hurwitz from BIO5 Institute and lichenologists in the Lutzoni lab Duke Biology.

Introducing Aciurina luminaria Baine, sp. nov. also known as The Candle Flame Gall Tephritid! Using multi-trait integrative taxonomy Quin Baine and the Martinson lab have described a new gall-inducing insect in ZooKeys #gall Details below...