BeeBiome Consortium

Our BeeBiome data portal is no longer a Beta version and is officially released: beebiome.org Thanks to everyone involved in making it running!

Happy micro-bee-ome day everyone! #WorldMicrobiomeDay

🐝Community assembly in honeybee microbiome: this interesting paper demonstrates how variations in host and geography alter the contribution of different assembly processes mechanisms, underlying honeybee gut microbial shifts across evolutionary time. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB…

Persistent effects of management history on honeybee colony virus abundances. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper from Laura Figueroa squeaking in just before 2021: Crithidia bombi can infect two solitary bee species while host survivorship depends on diet Helps explain why we find C. bombi in so many bees... it's replicating in more than just Bombus! tinyurl.com/y8hjm598

Interesting preprint from @KarenKapheim lab, wondering how food and living environment affect bees microbiome? Check this out 🐝

Accepted in @FEMSmicro: Temporal changes in the microbiome of stingless bee foragers following colony relocation. Access the unformatted version here: academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

Our new paper on the use of artificial diet to study transmission of honeybee viruses by Varroa destructor. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Our new preprint which reports that pupal cannibalism by worker honey bees contributes to the spread of Deformed wing virus. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interesting new review on the nesting habitat requirements & preferences of ground-nesting #bees by Cecile Antoine @Cecile72304837 & Jessica Forrest 🐝Have a read today, it's #OpenAccess in @Ecol_Ent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… #Pollinators #Pollinisateurs @RoyEntSoc @SbastienRivest1

Our piece, where we discuss why #bees and their diseases are relevant model systems for the #OneHealth approach, with Lena Wilfert and @sphaerularia, is now in press in JIP. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to @ropolo & @marc_rr. They will lead a working group to help for the establishment of our @BeeMicrobiome data portal, with support from @GenomeAlberta & @ABInnovates!

dear @BeeMicrobiome @beeaudacious @thehotbeard @worldbeeproject please circulate! coloss.org/news/coloss-su…

🐝Postdoc & technician positions opened @uni_ulm, on emerging disease ecology & evolution, an ERC project with Lena Wilfert. Involves summer field sampling in beautiful European islands (!) and cool experiments in the lab. Come join us!🐝 -- Please RT -- stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/ed1…

Attention bee / microbial ecology enthusiasts! We’re looking for a post-doc to study brood cell microbiomes of solitary bees. Please RT! Full job details can be found here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14494

New work from our lab with @LucieKesner @erkosarb, Olivier Emery, and Michael Troilo. We show that the gut microbiota of honey bees shifts during the winter towards higher bacterial loads and is dominated by two particular core members. Now on bioRxiv. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cool study with the relentless Eugene Ryabov, @RyabovEugene

Our Varroa genomes paper led by @AlphaManae is finally published! buff.ly/2oU2AO8 It was a huge collaborative project, between @BiologyANU, @OISTedu, @CSIRO, @PhaseGenomics and @USDA

Sphaerularia bombi infects bumblebee queens resulting in behavioural manipulation and host castration. Here we show nematode infection alters gene expression in queens: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…. Massive thanks to @sphaerularia @blaxterlab @WaspWoman @JimCarolanMU #bees #parasites

October "Notes from the Lab" featuring a recent epidemiology paper by @BeesAndBaking. Turns out crowded apiaries may not be bad for the health of your bees. cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.…