New preprint from our lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @aiswarya.bsky.social tested the role of priority effects in shaping the honeybee gut microbiota using an elegant combinatorial experimental design. A thread🧵....

🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Even the cichlid fish eggs of Lake Tanganyika are highly diverse! Picture by Grégoire Vernaz and Anja Haefeli www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/09/04/f...

1st of May five years ago, I started my PhD at the Salzburger lab in Basel, and yesterday I started my postdoc at the Engel lab in Lausanne! I’m grateful for these past five years and looking forward to this new opportunity!

🚨Our new paper, which was part of my doctoral research at the @unibas.ch, uses shotgun metagenomics to identify the diet of Lake Tanganyikan cichlid #fish, revealing an even greater diversity of food sources within their adaptive radiation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The ichthyofauna of Northern Zambia is largely understudied and highly threatened by such spillages. 🐟 #conservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy that I could be part of this new study on the feeding ecology of the Maghreb bleak, Tropidophoxinellus callensis, in Algeria doi.org/10.15421/012... picture credit: Baikeche et al., 2021 (Biodivers. J.)

Last Friday, I defended my PhD work of the last 4 years and officially became a Doctor in Biology!! 🇨🇭🧬🐠🍤🍾 @unibas.ch

This is a video that I made about a year ago, as an alternative presentation on the EMPSEB28 conference. Have a look if you want to know more about my PhD study and what we did during our fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika: youtu.be/-4qbvGpVlv8?...