Exciting news! I am joining Texas A&M Entomology as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2024! Seeking motivated M.S. and Ph.D. students interested in 🐝 gut microbiomes and their response to environmental stressors. Please RT!

Applications are open for the Microbial Friends & Foes REU! Please share with your undergrads looking for research experience. Open to US citizens, no prior experience necessary. Apply at cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-prog… by February 1. CIHMID Cornell Microbiology

Grateful for the opportunity to write this review with Professor Nancy Moran about the current knowledge on the honeybee gut microbiota! Check it out in Nature Reviews Microbiology: go.nature.com/3TbBY7s #Microbiome #HoneybeeHealth

We start 2024 by inviting you to join us in Algarve, Portugal, on June 10-13, at the SymbNET International Conference on #HostMicrobe Symbiosis. Save the date 🗓️and stay tuned for more details coming soon! 🎉HAPPY 2024! bit.ly/3v1Zcmm

Austin winter >>> Austin summer (at least for gardening)

How could I forget them? 🥺

Applications for Project Manager of our training programs by Moore Foundation entitled “Promoting PhD training on Host-Microbe Symbioses” (Grant GBMF11550); doi.org/10.37807/GBMF1…. This includes our PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Apply by Feb05 cdn.gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/wp-con…

Fun! I think these are the lines that I’ve taken in Austin: 1 3 5 7 10 19 (RIP) 20 30 (before/after it fused with 19) 661 670 671 672 801 803 Red Line You can probably guess what parts of town I’ve lived in 😅

Super-amazing work by Takanori Nishino, Hiromi Mukai, Minoru Moriyama and other colleagues on a novel insect-microbe symbiosis is now available as preprint Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please share! Two NSF postdocs available starting this summer to research the evolution of insect microbe interactions in sunny Southern California. Competitive salary and benefits. See link for more details and contact information **RNA evolution drive.google.com/file/d/1euuMtI…

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Did you have no chance to attend a symbiosis conference this year in Europe or are you already looking forward for the next one? Then join us in Rothenburg o.d. Tauber this Oktober. We cover a wide spectrum, parasitism-mutualism, plants, animals, MOs, terrestrial & marine...

Fun collaboration with Diana Percy and Patrick Degnan showing rapid loss (<1M) of nutritional symbionts in Hawaiian psyllids is associated with galling behavior. All psyllids (free-living, open gall, closed gall) radiated on the same host plant species over ~5MY.