Yesterday my wire sculpture of epidermis of Arabidopsis thaliana was moved to its permanent position - just down the Firth Hall stairwell and through the doors to the right. Doesn't it look great against a white wall! #stomata
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Finally finished my entry for tomorrow's SNESFest Sciences at Newcastle Art of Science exhibition!

I've embroidered the structure of Green Fluorescent Protein with neon threads and drawn the structure using E. coli which is expressing GFP. Both fluoresce under UV light 😊 #SciArt 🦠🌟

Teamwork plus good dog mascot goes a long way. Congrats!

A leader in so many ways. Congrats!

Why yes, I did.

Beautiful (both visually and scientifically) research by Jason Chen testing the role of chance in shaping animal-microbe symbioses.

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

Just updated!

We updated our massive database of funding opportunities for POSTDOC fellowships.

Each entry (316!), we provide the $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, description, and link to funder.

Download this database freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Have you finished or about to finish your PhD and interested to work on any aspect of Cordyceps fungi?
Send me a message if you are interested to build a proposal and join my lab.
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Forgot to post about the emergence of Dr. Jason Chen from his grad student pupal case. Congrats, Jason Chen . It’s beautiful work.

In a moment of brilliance, I wrote “time travel set up” on my to do list, suggesting my subconscious’s way to deal with this absurd list is time travel. I’ll let you know if I figure it out.

The meeting will be in Olhão, Algarve, Portugal, just by the Ria Formosa lagoon. Check the venue realmarina.realhotelsgroup.com and the Natural Park website natural.pt/protected-area….

Every Ph.D. student needs to include this in their thesis!

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The Many Shapes of Bacteria
#Bacteria #Infographic #science #art #microbes #microbiology #sciart #vizscicomm #scicomm

A plant pathogen moonlights as a defensive insect symbiont.

So happy to see our work, led by @Berasymbionts & Noa Breitenbach, out today in Current Biology!

cell.com/current-biolog… Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen @MaxPlanckPress Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections
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Multiple Origins of Bioluminescence in Beetles and Evolution of Luciferase Function buff.ly/3HU2bR9 #science #evolution #biology #genome

What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification?

We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by Marleny García Lozano & out today in Current Biology!
cell.com/current-biolog… 🧵1/n

!!!JOB ALERT!!! 2.5 Y postdoc available in my lab to study the drivers of mutualism breakdown using phylogenetic comparative methods in indirect defence in plants, pollination, seed dispersal and nutritional symbioses at LARGE SCALE!! Amazing collabs too ! Toby Kiers Amy Zanne

Such a great read :)

Quick reminder that the #TenureTrack research professor/curator position on butterflies and moths Florida Museum FLORIDA will start application reviews next Friday (1/5). Please submit your applications if you are interested in this great opportunity! (please also help repost!)