Gabriel H Giger

PhD Candidate at ETH Zürich

[WIRED Science @WIREDScience]

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. https://t.co/ar4MoJlurp

[CrocodileChuck @CrocodileChuck]

Annals Of Evolution

Molly Herring on Endosymbiosis & the Rise of Eukaryote Cells:

https://t.co/bpIIlwx8PN

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Bacteria glowing with green fluorescence move inside a fungal cell. In this video, the bacteria seem like an infection, but in successive generations, the two organisms will adapt to each other until they find endosymbiotic balance. https://t.co/cnUVLpD2Oh

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@svendesai @QuantaMagazine Fair point. Firsts are relative and we don‘t claim to be the first in our article. There’s been a lot of seminal research on this before. But I am excited about the progress we made! https://t.co/dJSITsVNOk

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

Big thanks to @QuantaMagazine and @mollymherring for piblishing this story about our research on inducing novel endosymbioses in fungi by directly injecting bacteria!

https://t.co/gZFjjl2TqW

[CYTOSURGE AG @cytosurge]

🌟 Meet @GabrielGiger (@ETH_en @Microbio #VorholtLab), pioneering endosymbiosis research with #FluidFM! 🧫🔬
Precise bacteria injections into fungi open new possibilities, enabling real-time host-bacteria interaction studies. 🚀
🎥 Watch > https://t.co/FJvB2jXbUs
📖 Read > https://t.co/aBWZLOAmgl @nature

#ETH #ETHZurich #SingleCellAnalysis #Endosymbiosis #LifeSciences #InnovationInScience #FungalResearch #CuttingEdgeResearch

[Joana Meier @joana_meier]

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. https://t.co/4UHcFFODlG

[Akos T. Kovacs @EvolvedBiofilm]

Glad to be involved in this @NatureMicrobiol Perspective led by @trentn & Ruben Garrido-Oter

Community standards and future opportunities for synthetic communities in plant–microbiota research
https://t.co/KPwGxZyfAu

#MicrobiomeEcology at @LeidenBiology
#SynCom #PlantMicrobe

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

It‘s been a fantastic four days in Rothenburg with great symbiotic mutualism! Many thanks to the organizers!

[nature @Nature]

We first wrote this piece in 2018, another year in which seven recipients were awarded scientific Nobel Prizes, all of them male.

It remains as relevant now as it was then.
https://t.co/5O061dzNmE

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@WG_BaseballBio A lot is still unclear, especially in this coenocytic early divergent fungus. We need to dig deeper for molecular mechanisms. Fortunately, there‘s more and more interest. And some other great work already out there too.

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

Here‘s some footage of our injection of bacteria into R. microsporus. There‘s more videos in the SI of the article with active transport and the fungal innate immunity response.

Ref: Giger et al., Nature 2024

https://t.co/fdUq9ggcnE

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@WAJ_Webster @Nature Thanks for reading! There‘s much more to discover, so… (can be tedious though 😅)

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

We found a way to implant bacteria 🦠 in fungi 🍄and used it to induce artificial endosymbiosis. Read all about it in our newest research paper @Nature .

https://t.co/dJSITsVNOk

[nature @Nature]

Bacteria implanted into fungi offer clues to the origins of complex life https://t.co/ZNcLRUrYgw

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@samedwards410 Hearing about it seems about right 😉

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@samedwards410 @LealDutraCaio @Nature Yes finally! 🥳

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@Funbiosis2017 @SpringerNature Great teamwork!

[Microbiology_ETH @Microbio_ETH]

Bacteria inside fungi! A new study by the #VorholtLab shows how artificial endosymbiosis can transfer a metabolic function and drive innovation in biology.
@Nature: https://t.co/ZGiyuaQuVJ
@ETH_en: https://t.co/d6ZDkBM5Rb

[Gabriel H Giger @GabrielGiger]

@erica_fiorini @cytosurge See you there! Very much looking forward to the event!