Are you interested in investigating the microbiome of wild insect populations? Changes through time and/or space? I am hiring a new postdoc - please apply or RT! #ISEE #microbiota #symbiosis jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-P…

Postdoctoral position available at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland! We are looking for a Postdoc to study factors and processes shaping the variability of insect microbiota. Please RT #insects #symbiosis

We're hiring Laboratory Assistants for the 2023 field season!! We have multiple positions open in our lab at the Kearney Ag Center (near Fresno) as well as on the UC Riverside campus. Feel free to reach out directly if you have any questions! treecrops.ucr.edu/lab-assistant-…

Exciting news! Our undergrad Jacob and former grad Dohyup published a paper on comparative transcriptomics of obligate insect-microbe mutualisms. Discover the findings on key aphid homologs crucial for nutritional mutualism and lineage-specific genes at nature.com/articles/s4159….

New paper alert! Symbionts have allowed insects to colonise novel feeding niches, but how has this influenced diversification? In NatureEcoEvo we show that symbionts are associated with extreme highs and lows of insect diversification. More below: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excellent opportunity to do cool research.

Congrats to Younghwan Kwak our labs newly minted PhD. She will start a postdoc with Gordon Bennett soon continuing on the evolution of insect symbiosis. Good luck!!

Paper: pnas.org/eprint/R4EQ4EF…

Engineered gut symbiont inhibits microsporidian parasite and improves honey bee survival | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We at #IUMicro are looking to bring in leaders in the field of #microbiomes and #hostmicrobe interaction. Are you an established investigator looking to move to a collaborative, supportive environment? Check us out! #ASMicrobe indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/16243

Please share! Two NSF postdocs available starting this summer to research the evolution of insect microbe interactions in sunny Southern California. Competitive salary and benefits. See link for more details and contact information **RNA evolution drive.google.com/file/d/1euuMtI…

Beautiful (both visually and scientifically) research by Jason Chen testing the role of chance in shaping animal-microbe symbioses.

Super cool study culturing an important secondary symbiont of aphids by Jerry Maeda

Excited to learn our non-transgenic canker-resistant citrus generated by crispr genome editing exempted by EPA, by APHIS, for use by growers! They are the 1st to receive EPA exemption for gene-edited plants! ThanksNIFA funding!Thanks@usda_nifa ⁦⁦U.S. EPA⁩⁦USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service⁩

Cool paper on convergent losses of a symbiont in gall forming insects! Nice work by Hansen Lab Patrick Degnan et al. 🦠🌺

Vince and I are currently recruiting grad students for a variety of projects. Please pass on this flier to anyone you think would be interested!

NEW PAPER! What explains associations with defensive symbionts? In Ecology Letters we show symbiont occurrences align with sharing the same parasitoids, but not plants, highlighting enemies as key selective agents shaping symbioses in nature🦠 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70…