This work stems from the “Theory of Microbial Symbiosis” workshop held last year at HIMB (Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology), supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation @moorefound.bsky.social. Grateful to Joan Roughgarden and Lisa McManus for organizing such a fantastic workshop!

Great team work with Maria Martignoni, Lisa McManus, Taom Sakal, Armun Liaghat @armunliaghat.bsky.social , Bethany Stevens, Kyle Dahlin, Lucas Souza @lucasgenoma.bsky.social, Zoe Cardon, Cynthia Silveira, Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social, and Joan Roughgarden.

We discuss the limits of current theoretical host-microbe models and outline 3 key areas for future work: 1) Modelling the nested structure of holobionts 2) Capturing microbial transmission dynamics in #holobiont populations 3) Understanding symbiont-driven host evolution and speciation

Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Introducing carbon assimilation in yeasts using photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis #NatureComms from Angad Mehta www.nature.com/articles/s41...

--PhD Publications by Sarah Garric-- #Photophysiology of the haploid form of the #cryptophyte Teleaulax amphioxeia doi.org/10.1111/jpy.... Impaired photoacclimation in a #kleptoplastidic #dinoflagellate reveals physiological limits of early stages of #endosymbiosis

'The organelle is the fourth example in history of primary endosymbiosis—the process by which a prokaryotic cell is engulfed by a eukaryotic cell and evolves beyond symbiosis into an organelle.'

You can find the study here: Cook, N.M., Gobbato, G., Jacott, C.N. et al. Autoactive CNGC15 enhances root endosymbiosis in legume and wheat. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Modeling endosymbiosis and the origin of organelles! 𝘙𝘩𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴—a fungus that infects corn and sunflowers—was microinjected with 𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘴 bacteria, which then successfully entered fungal spores and got passed to subsequent generations Paper in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...