Ronja Krüsemer and Martin Kaltenpoth of @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social et al. report in @natcomms.nature.com on the rapid loss of a beetle symbiont following infection with another bacterium. This could be the key to systematically investigating symbiont exchange. www.ice.mpg.de/549447/PR_Kr...

SypC, a symbiont outer membrane vesicle protein, impacts the development of the squid-vibrio partnership PNAS from Margaret McFall-Ngai with @microklv.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Finally a Doctor! 🦠👩🏼‍🎓 I am honored to announce that I defended my doctoral thesis in microbiology/biochemistry with jury honors! 🎉 I am very pleased to have been able to identify key metabolites for Xenorhabdus/nematode symbiosis and I look forward to keep studying symbiosis in my postdoc research

A worm among bacterial stars ✨️🪱 My picture of bacterial-nematode symbiosis made the cover of AEM with my first thesis paper !! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #SymbioSky

I'm glad to share my very first thesis paper published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology ! 🦠🪱🧪 #microsky#symbiosky#wormfeed journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Everything seems more fun than writing! I tried to draw little watercolors to illustrate the 3 chapters of my thesis 🦠🪱🧪 #microsky#wormfeed#symbiosky#secondarymetabolism

New paper comparing the light organ symbiosis in the hummingbird bobtail squid to the infamous Hawaiian bobtail squid. Congrats to @markjmandel.bsky.social and crew, and thanks for letting me take some light organ images for the pub!

✨En juin, notre Tour de France passe par Montpellier, pour y rencontrer @noemieclaveyroles.bsky.social, doctorante au sein de l’unité DIGIMI. Elle travaille sur les interactions entre la bactérie Xenorabdus et le nématode. Envie d’en savoir plus sur son parcours et ses travaux ? bit.ly/3Tfh0DF

Very happy to have been able to attend and present my work at last week's GRC Animal-Microbe symbiosis. Fascinating speakers, great meetings and plenty of interesting conversations !