A step forward in discovering Buchnera's key to the aphid's heart, published today! Thanks to Jerry Maeda and other authors--a great team -- and to the helpful reviewers #SymbioSky doi: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Really grateful to have gotten to be a part of this paper just as my post doc started. Really neat stuff! A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What happens when a psyllid’s menu changes? 🍽️Our new paper (from two phenomenal honors students) reveals that differences in essential amino acids in plant diets reshapes symbiotic organ structure and alters insect fitness. Dive in: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

What happens when a psyllid’s menu changes? 🍽️Our new paper (from two phenomenal honors students) reveals that differences in essential amino acids in plant diets reshapes symbiotic organ structure and alters insect fitness. Dive in: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

*correct link Very excited to share a preprint from stellar lab postdoc, Dr. Younghwan Kwak. “Intrahost mutational dynamics parallel long-term genome evolution in endosymbionts” Cool, skillful work and a nifty story! #symbiosis #insects #evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There’ll be several opportunities to join the group, starting w/ a PhD studentship via the BBSRC-NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Team up w/ us, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social & @berasymbionts.bsky.social to answer how microbes shape insect behavior: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mic...

We have a new one out! Six, D.L., Alverson, H. & Bullington, L. Ecological stoichiometry of mountain pine beetle, its mutualist fungi, and the disease white pine blister rust in whitebark pine. Oecologia 207, 176 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s004...

From beginning to end: the synecology of tree‐killing bark beetles, fungi, and trees - Six - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library 😁WE HAVE A NEW ONE OUT. Two years in the making. Give it a look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super fun collaboration with Diana Percy and Patrick Degnan. #symbiosis #genome evolution #psyllids #Bvitamins

@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others

I know this is a weird time to ask, but are there post doc positions in symbiosis available in the next year? I know a talented microscopy/microbiology student who is going to be on the job market soon. Open to work outside the US, but is an American student if that makes a difference🧪🦠

New study from my lab and former grad Dr. Kwak shows Liberibacter psyllaurous, a dual insect symbiont and plant pathogen, boosts psyllid fitness by providing essential nutrients like arginine. A rare case of nutritional benefits from non-obligate symbionts #symbiosis journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Base-modified nucleotides mediate immune signaling in bacteria www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

We're searching for a postdoc to study insect-microbe symbiosis in our lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Application can be found here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...

Applications are now open for fully-funded #PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biology and Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. The new cohort starts September 2025. Find out more about the projects you could be working on: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de #IMPRS

Are you or do you know someone interested in symbiosis research? Anaeramoeba is an exciting organism to explore symbiosis in a low-oxygen environment. Less than a week (December 6) to apply for the PhD position in my group! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share widely!

Still some time to apply. Please share the ad.

The Department of Pathology at UC San Diego is hiring a new Department Chair! We are comprised of basic, translational, and physician scientists working on cancer, neurological disease, microbial infection, and inflammatory disease. Please share & repost! 🧪 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03983

Fun new paper led by @greghurst.bsky.social &co using genomics to show that facultative symbiont genomes get bigger as they adapt to life inside a host (through HGT & loss of CRISPR) before undergoing genome reduction as they become obligate #symbiosky #microsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Post doc position of possible interest at UC Davis: ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers On "ecological and environmental drivers of zoonotic virus emergence, transmission and circulation and the development of innovative technology and approaches for transdisciplinary pandemic research."

Applications are open for the Microbial Population Biology GRS and GRC! The GRS is a fun day for grad students and postdocs to network before the full GRC starts, and is co-chaired this year by me and Laura Suttenfield Get your applications in by Jan 15! #evosky 🦠🧪 www.grc.org/microbial-po...