New preprint! 🐝 We engineered a bacterial biosensor to reveal micron-scale arabinose gradients in the honeybee gut. Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. Great collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes at @fbm-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

New perspective with a comprehensive overview of the microbiome heritability concept www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky More info: mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msys...

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Today in our #Symbiosis and #Evolution seminar series: @andrewhq9.bsky.social on the #HoneyBee #microbiota and the metabolic crosstalk between and among host and symbionts @dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky

Very happy to see this published! 🤩Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. This is the result of a very nice collaboration with the @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes.

Join us in the south of Portugal for the SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis. 10-13 June. Registration is open until 15th March. More details at igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky

#SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe #Symbiosis. June 10 - 13, 2024. Olhão, Portugal igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky

Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax

Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT shorturl.at/dipvA

Finally published! We show that host metabolites facilitate gutcolonization of a symbiont of social bees. Huge congrats to co-lead authors @andrewhq9.bsky.social & Yassine El Chazli. Super collabo with NanoSIMS expert Anders Meibom EPFL and our Electron Microscopy Facility FBM_UNIL 🐝 🧪

We have a ‘new’ preprint spearheaded by @joanitoliberti.bsky.social It is not an easy one to get pass the editorial desk of journals, may be because we challenge previous findings. However, IMO it is an important contribution to our field & will help improving future gnotobiotic bee experiments 👇🧪

Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪

A new preprint from our collabo with the Schaerli lab at UNIL. Amélie Cabirol and Audam Chhun teamed up with others from the two labs to investigate fecal sampling and transplantation in honey bees 🦠 🤓 🐝 to better understand gut microbiota transmission. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After two long incubation periods at the journal's desk, our #metagenomics study on #strain level differences in the bee gut microbiota has been published. Big thank you to 1st author Gilles Baud, Kirsten Ellegaard, & @aiswarya.bsky.social l who pushed the paper across the finish line. 🧪 🐝 🦠

The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Almost time for our annual, in person, Impromptu symposium! November 24 in the Biophore at UNIL in Lausanne. This year's topic ‘The many sides of microbial evolution’ with 7 fantastic speakers. Registration is free at: forms.gle/NnLkTXbFTmLE...

The strain on scientific publishing 📄: We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!? See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 A 🧵1/n #AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat

For the INSECT MICROBIOME crowd: The Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois will be hiring an Assistant Professor in Insect Microbiomes. Please share this ad with any one working in this area. (Application deadline = October 6th) illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

SymbNET is a EU-funded network for research on host-microbe symbiosis symbnet.eu. We participated in a SymbNET workshop with the labs of Luis Teixeira and Hinrich Schulenburg. We had fruitful discussions about recent results, novel approaches and challenges in studying animal-microbe symbiosis.

Neuroactive metabolites modulated by the gut microbiota in honey bees MolMicro Mini Review from Engel lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

That feeling when you spent three weeks on a NanoSIMS mosaic just to falsify your initial hypothesis… At least 15N-ammonium uptake in the Hydra-Chlorella symbiosis looks pretty. #microsky #evosky 🧫🦠🔬

Eukaryotic immunity in Asgard archaea! Excited to share preprint looking at viral defense systems in Asgard archaea! We found that archaea played roles in the origin of immunity in eukaryotes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our department mcb.berkeley.edu is soliciting applications for an Assistant Professor position studying fundamental aspects of genetics, genomics, evolution, and/or developmental biology. Bring it on! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04110

I'm really excited to announce that the 2023 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series registration site is live! 🥳 We will host a 2-day bioinformatic course and a 1-day symposium Oct. 11-13. This year's theme is 'how the ecology of our guts protects us from pathogens' 🛡️ isbscience.org/microbiome20...

phage aficionadas y aficionados take note 👇 twitter.com/MicrobesInfe... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great article by Claudia Lange, Martin Kaltenpoth and co-authors on the impact of intraspecies diversity in insect microbioms on host phenotypes and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

@pengellab.bsky.social This is a really nice, thought-provoking piece by Toby Hammer. Deficiency of microbiota-free hosts: lack of microbial benefits (as the field usually assumes) or evolutionary addiction (mostly neglected in the field)? www.cell.com/trends/micro... 🧪🦠🐁🐝👫

Hey Bsky! It is about time for a first post from the Engellab! Our group works on the bee gut microbiota to study evolution and ecology of microbiota-host interactions and symbiosis. We are currently on a 3-days SymbNET symposium with the labs of Luis Teixeira and Hinrich Schulenburg in Portugal.