Insect Symbiosis Lab

Proud of our lab’s contributions at the recent SAB meeting @MPI_CE! Our department showcased 3 years of exciting research with 5 posters and Martin’s talk. Special shoutout to Bernal, Camila, Ana, Ronja, Vojtech, Roy, and the whole lab for their support and collaboration!🔬🧬🧫🪲

Exciting news! We're thrilled to welcome @FrancescaProtti as a post-doc in our lab! 🎉 Our amphibian team is expanding as she will investigate poison frog alkaloids' dietary sources. A special thanks for the great Oophaga granulifera picture. Welcome aboard, Chesca! 🐸 @MPI_CE

Our lab is thrilled to welcome two new PhD students! Fortesa Rama will focus on disentangling a multipartite symbiosis in leafhoppers and Sreyashi Mandal will experimentally investigate the evolution of intracellular symbiosis in beetles. Join us in welcoming them @MPI_CE!

We recently attended the @SymbiosisContext meeting, which featured outstanding research and allowed us to reconnect with alumni. Congratulations @DongikChang, for winning the Best Talk award! Thanks to the organizers for this memorable event; we look forward to future gatherings.

Just a reminder to check out the Symbiosis in Context meeting this October in southern Germany. Don't miss to register if you are interested, the deadline is next week.

@SymbioseContext @wk_kwong @julianaalma @CBeemelmanns @jillpeterplan @KellerJean_PhD @GabrielGiger @fm_key @MicrObeng @TheStanleyLab Please consider attending this symposium organized by some of our symbiosis researchers from Jena, @Funbiosis2017 @aglernino and @TCSEngl!

Our group's histology wizard, Benjamin Weiss, published his book on techniques of insect histology, with detailed protocols and lots of valuable information on how to do histology properly and get good results. Fantastic work, Benni! shaker.de/de/content/cat…

Excited to share our latest paper on the beewolf symbiosis:

Thanks to @fkttkm and Genta Okude for the nice collaboration on this paper!

Excited to share our latest paper on the dual symbiosis in wood-feeding beetles, led by @jstkiefer and @TCSEngl: nature.com/articles/s4139…

Exciting news! Our latest publication on dual bacterial symbiosis in xylophagous beetles is out now @ISMEJournal. #symbiosis #Bostrichidae - nature.com/articles/s4139…

Congratulations to @Maike_L_Fischer for her exciting new paper! Please read it in Proc. Roy. Soc. B! twitter.com/Maike_L_Fische…

We are very proud of all our amazing speakers and poster presenters at the IMPRS symposium! Congrats especially to @KhanyileNomthi, @AnaBanosq and @chai_ntist for their award-winning contributions! ice.mpg.de/443189/IMPRS-A…

We are looking for a PhD candidate working on 'The molecular basis of symbiosis establishment in beetles' in the framework of our IMPRS graduate school 'Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems' @MPI_CE. Find all the offered projects and apply here ice.mpg.de/296548/current…

And from our side, wecome to Jena @KellerJean_PhD. We are happy to have you here and are looking forward to exciting insights into beetle symbioses!

Recently we had @rebekkaja & @jstkiefer defend their doctoral theses in an amazing double feature on defensive and nutritious bacterial symbionts of beetles. Congratulations to both of you! @uni_mainz @MPI_CE

Excited to see our new review out in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews on the bacterial factors mediating the establishment of host-beneficial symbioses in invertebrates: journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11…

Our latest paper on grain best beetle symbioses is out in @molecology - not on nutritional symbionts, but reproductive manipulation by Wolbachia in O.surinamensis which seemed to have changed its phenotype during adaptation to grain storages. Team with @jstkiefer @TCSEngl et al🥳

Our perspectives paper with @MDeniseDearing and Jonathan Gershenzon on detoxifying symbionts in herbivores is out in 'Symbiosis'. Thanks to both for the wonderful collaboration and great discussions! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our paper from @rebekkaja on "Morphological adaptation for ectosymbiont maintenance and transmission during metamorphosis in Lagria beetles" is out in Frontiers in Physiology: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…