Lee Henry

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Lee Henry

@HenryLabSymbio

Exploring endosymbiosis at Queen Mary University of London. Associate professor. Symbiosis, ecology, evolution, microbiology https://t.co/N3Wk7abWIU

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·19 Şub

NEW PAPER! What explains associations with defensive symbionts? In @Ecology_Letters we show symbiont occurrences align with sharing the same parasitoids, but not plants, highlighting enemies as key selective agents shaping symbioses in nature🦠 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·6d

🚨 PhD opportunity in evolutionary microbiology! Join our lab to study how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses and ecological function ✉️ l.henry@qmul.qc.uk Apply: t.ly/6ARQY #PhD #Microbiology #Ecology #Evolution

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·13 Oca

New preprint! How do host regulate ancient symbioses to optimise benefits? We show 🐜 actively regulate symbionts, switching between symbiont-derived and environmental nutrients to thrive under changing diets. 👏 Well done @PhoebeHazel93 and team! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·6 Oca

Happy New Year! 🎉 New preprint out now: Defensive symbionts don’t protect against all enemies equally they are often highly specific. We show that toxin type drives which parasitoid species are killed, and reveal some truly wild new toxins! Read below. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Jan Hrcek@ParasitoidWebs·25 Kas

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! @ERC_Research See lab.hrcek.net

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·23 Eki

Amazing work on a super cool defensive symbiosis by @fkttkm Takema and team! 👏

Takema Fukatsu@fkttkm

Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug

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Takema Fukatsu@fkttkm·17 Eki

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·12 May

@HassanSalem Congrats Hassan!! 🪲

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Hassan Salem@HassanSalem·23 Nis

Thrilled and honored to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! We’ll explore why beetles lose genes — only to rely on symbionts instead 🪲🦠 Incredibly proud of the team and excited for this project to take off w/ some remarkable beetles! bio.mpg.de/466825/news_pu…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·25 Nis

Amazing new species of carnivorous caterpillar discovered!

Science Magazine@ScienceMagazine

A rare carnivorous caterpillar, previously unknown to biologists, stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, researchers report in Science. This unique new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/4jMV8uk

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Kieran Bates@kieranbates20·18 Kas

Join my lab @blizard_inst for a 3 year @BBSRC funded post-doc exploring how glycans shape the skin microbiome and colonisation resistance in #amphibians!!!! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·15 Kas

@IzazAhm01611301 @MAG_Porras Hi Izaz! We have great MSc programs at QMUL where students can do projects tied to this research. For example, in our biodiversity and conservation, and bioinformatics Masters programmes. More information here qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgradu…

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Izaz Ahmad🔬@IzazAhm01611301·14 Kas

@HenryLabSymbio @MAG_Porras What about master?

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·14 Kas

⭐️Fully funded PhD in our lab through BBSRC LIDo⭐️ If you are interested in studying how symbionts can be used to block vector borne disease contact us! 🪲🦠 Info and link to apply below (please re-Tweet! 🙏): lido-dtp.ac.uk/apply/apply-ic…

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Ellen O. Martinson@wasp_venom·30 Eki

Vince and I are currently recruiting grad students for a variety of projects. Please pass on this flier to anyone you think would be interested!

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·10 Eki

Two Injured ctenophores can fuse into a single organism? Bonkers! cell.com/current-biolog…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·7 Eki

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Science News@ScienceNews·7 Eki

At least 176 bird species use fungal rhizomorphs in their nests. Given that frequency, it’s not surprising the researchers found evidence that the rhizomorphs may provide some chemical defenses. sciencenews.org/article/bird-n…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·1 Eki

Wonderful review on beetle symbioses by @HassanSalem and @MarlenyGarciaL1, check it out! 🪲

Hassan Salem@HassanSalem

Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this @TrendsMicrobiol article, @MarlenyGarciaL1 & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: cell.com/trends/microbi…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·19 Eyl

Great work by @realBenJen, Tom Richard’s and crew on host control of symbionts.

Ben Jenkins@realBenJen

Excited and proud to share our preprint! A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer! 1/10 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·10 Eyl

@NicoleDubilier @ASMicrobiology @MarineMicrobio Congratulations @NicoleDubilier! Well deserved 👏

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Nicole Dubilier@NicoleDubilier·10 Eyl

Thrilled, honored, and grateful to receive this award from @ASMicrobiology. A huge 🙏 to my current & past team @MarineMicrobio and everyone who supported me along the way.

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology@MarineMicrobio

Congratulations to @NicoleDubilier, awardee of the 2025 ASM D.C. White Award for Interdisciplinary Research @ASMicrobiology.. 🥳👏👏🏆 .. recognizing distinguished accomplishments in interdisciplinary research & mentoring. Bravo! mpi-bremen.de/nicole-dubilie…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·10 Eyl

Cool paper on convergent losses of a symbiont in gall forming insects! Nice work by @HansenLab1 Patrick Degnan et al. 🦠🌺

Antoine Guiguet@AntoineGuiguet

The galls are so nutritious that psyllids that transitioned to galling have lost their nutritional symbionts ! 🤯academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do…

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Lee Henry@HenryLabSymbio·27 Ağu

Wow, so cool! cell.com/current-biolog…

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@PhoebeHazel93 @ERC_Research @fkttkm @HassanSalem @blizard_inst @BBSRC @IzazAhm01611301 @ScienceNews