Francesca Pinton
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PhD student - Hejnol's Lab - FSU Jena
Algal symbionts go through a lot for their acoel host: ingested, stripped of cell wall and flagella, displaced to all tissues, both intra- and extracellular. Animal grows, gets nutrients and some stress responses. With
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Preprint at
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https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.06.710013
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First paper of my PhD published 🎉
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It's about immunity in acoel worms and its link to photosymbiosis. There's evolution and immune gene expression, but also mortality, dysbiosis, and host responses upon pathogen exposure. With
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Absence of conserved immune signalling pathways and increased pathogen susceptibility associated to photosymbiosis in acoels - BMC Biology
Background Host immunity plays an important role in coral symbiosis with dinoflagellates. Photosymbiosis (the association between hosts and photosynthetic endosymbionts) has evolved multiple times wit...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02506-w
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