Insect Symbiosis Lab

News from the Insect Symbiosis Department 🪲🦠 @MPI_CE on how insects and their symbionts adapt to challenges.
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[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Proud of our lab’s contributions at the recent SAB meeting @MPI_CE! Our department showcased 3 years of exciting research with 5 posters and Martin’s talk. Special shoutout to Bernal, Camila, Ana, Ronja, Vojtech, Roy, and the whole lab for their support and collaboration!🔬🧬🧫🪲

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Exciting news! We're thrilled to welcome @FrancescaProtti as a post-doc in our lab! 🎉 Our amphibian team is expanding as she will investigate poison frog alkaloids' dietary sources. A special thanks for the great Oophaga granulifera picture. Welcome aboard, Chesca! 🐸 @MPI_CE

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Our lab is thrilled to welcome two new PhD students!
Fortesa Rama will focus on disentangling a multipartite symbiosis in leafhoppers and Sreyashi Mandal will experimentally investigate the evolution of intracellular symbiosis in beetles.
Join us in welcoming them @MPI_CE!

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

We recently attended the @SymbiosisContext meeting, which featured outstanding research and allowed us to reconnect with alumni. Congratulations @DongikChang, for winning the Best Talk award! Thanks to the organizers for this memorable event; we look forward to future gatherings.

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Just a reminder to check out the Symbiosis in Context meeting this October in southern Germany. Don't miss to register if you are interested, the deadline is next week.

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

@SymbioseContext @wk_kwong @julianaalma @CBeemelmanns @jillpeterplan @KellerJean_PhD @GabrielGiger @fm_key @MicrObeng @TheStanleyLab Please consider attending this symposium organized by some of our symbiosis researchers from Jena, @Funbiosis2017 @aglernino and @TCSEngl!

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Our group's histology wizard, Benjamin Weiss, published his book on techniques of insect histology, with detailed protocols and lots of valuable information on how to do histology properly and get good results. Fantastic work, Benni!
https://t.co/c1kCCyhI0R

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Excited to share our latest paper on the beewolf symbiosis:

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Thanks to @fkttkm and Genta Okude for the nice collaboration on this paper!

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Excited to share our latest paper on the dual symbiosis in wood-feeding beetles, led by @jstkiefer and @TCSEngl:
https://t.co/jZtpmQJqds

[Julian Kiefer @jstkiefer]

Exciting news! Our latest publication on dual bacterial symbiosis in xylophagous beetles is out now @ISMEJournal. #symbiosis #Bostrichidae -
https://t.co/FGpOgMexNi

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Congratulations to @Maike_L_Fischer for her exciting new paper! Please read it in Proc. Roy. Soc. B!
https://t.co/YTHq5T9vIt

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

We are very proud of all our amazing speakers and poster presenters at the IMPRS symposium!
Congrats especially to @KhanyileNomthi, @AnaBanosq and @chai_ntist for their award-winning contributions!
https://t.co/eYGSnDSuSO

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

We are looking for a PhD candidate working on 'The molecular basis of symbiosis establishment in beetles' in the framework of our IMPRS graduate school 'Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems' @MPI_CE. Find all the offered projects and apply here https://t.co/7r6Rs3G8X2

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

And from our side, wecome to Jena @KellerJean_PhD. We are happy to have you here and are looking forward to exciting insights into beetle symbioses!

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Recently we had @rebekkaja & @jstkiefer defend their doctoral theses in an amazing double feature on defensive and nutritious bacterial symbionts of beetles. Congratulations to both of you! @uni_mainz @MPI_CE

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Excited to see our new review out in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews on the bacterial factors mediating the establishment of host-beneficial symbioses in invertebrates:
https://t.co/qzaHrJ3YSk

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Our latest paper on grain best beetle symbioses is out in @molecology - not on nutritional symbionts, but reproductive manipulation by Wolbachia in O.surinamensis which seemed to have changed its phenotype during adaptation to grain storages. Team with @jstkiefer @TCSEngl et al🥳

[Julian Kiefer @jstkiefer]

Ever heard of 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢, the reproductive manipulator? In our newest #researchpaper we describe its role in the sawtoothed grain beetle. @TCSEngl @Kaltenpoth_Lab @molecology #Wolbachia

https://t.co/dZoKLTsaoV

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Our perspectives paper with @MDeniseDearing and Jonathan Gershenzon on detoxifying symbionts in herbivores is out in 'Symbiosis'. Thanks to both for the wonderful collaboration and great discussions!
https://t.co/FIb8AYpZvQ

[Insect Symbiosis Lab @Kaltenpoth_Lab]

Our paper from @rebekkaja on "Morphological adaptation for ectosymbiont maintenance and transmission during metamorphosis in Lagria beetles" is out in Frontiers in Physiology:
https://t.co/2t3ShDeTSJ