Congratulation to the #MVIF #33 winners: @jimshaw.bsky.social and @aiswarya.bsky.social for winning the #besttalk (and a USD $200) prize!

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

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. 🧪 🐝 🦠

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.