Early-bird registration for the Wolbachia Conference (13-19 Apr 2025) at Okinawa, Japan, is now open! You are welcome to enjoy the fantastic venue @OIST in front of coral beach and subtropical forest #Wolbachia #symbiosis #meeting web.tuat.ac.jp/~insect/wolbac…

Igual que en The Last of Us 🍄👀 Un usuario de iNaturalist, la red social que permite subir fotos de la naturaleza para su investigación, compartió una imagen de una chicharrita "infectada" por un hongo de la familia Cordycipitaceae. (📸: vía mario-datg)

Retention of an Endosymbiont for the Production of a Single Molecule buff.ly/3V6QTQJ #science #evolution #biology #genome

SPAdes 4.0.0 ♠️ github.com/ablab/spades/r…

There are worms that live in the sub-freezing waters of the Ross Sea, next to Antarctica. These worms can withstand the cold temperature, it seems, because the bacteria in their guts make cryo-protective proteins that reduce the freezing point of internal liquids.

We are very proud to announce our new paper published in mSystems, in which we described unique bacterial association and transmission mechanisms alongside other unique symbiosis evolutionary patterns! with Piotr Łukasik Diego Castillo Franco journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Check out the latest #planthopper tree based on genomic data! #phylogenomics #Auchenorrhyncha #Hemiptera doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Great collaboration with colleagues in different fields! Jacek Szwedo Piotr Łukasik Niklas Wahlberg Hamid Ghanavi Etka Yapar Diego Castillo Franco Anna Michalik

Ryuga Sugiyama's great experimental work on host range of an artificial symbiotic E. coli and natural Pantoea symbiont both mutualistic to the stinkbug Plautia stali is out! - Unexpectedly, E. coli was more host specific than natural symbiont doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…

I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in Nature Microbiology !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃

“We were completely deceived by its camouflage.” In #Malaysia, a nature educator saw what he thought was a #snail...it's our Observation of the Week! Read the story at: inaturalist.org/blog/98469-is-… #nature #biodiversity #lepidoptera

Tomohito Noda, Masaki Mizutani and other colleagues' interesting discovery of frequent asymmetric division observed among the Blattabacterium endosymbionts of cockroaches is now available online: doi.org/10.1128/aem.01…

Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this Trends in Microbiology article, Marleny García Lozano & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: cell.com/trends/microbi…

Excited to share an additional preprint on mealybug diversification and its associations with endosymbionts and host plants. Thanks Filip Husnik (is here: filiphusnik.bsky.soc) Pradeep! Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚀 Exciting news for early-career researchers! The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. Applications are open now! postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Different types of mitochondria transit between cells Featuring work by Jon Brestoff and other contributors to this exciting field nature.com/articles/d4158…

These cicadas belong to the same species! Dundubia vaginata

We had an amazing time filled with inspiring discussions on Ophiocordyceps, symbiosis, and our collaborative research. Exciting plans ahead :) Piotr Łukasik João Araújo JunchenDeng

Our new paper is out! Two new species of Paleoophiocordyceps. Cretaceous entomopathogenic fungi illuminate the early evolution of insect–fungal associations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

It was very nice to have participate on this study where we describe 2 novel fossil species of Paleoophiocordyceps, also providing insights into the evolution of animal-associated fungi

Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug