Jerry Maeda

Graduate student at UT Austin. Moran Lab. 🏳️‍🌈

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

My first dissertation chapter is out in mBio! We cultured a vertically transmitted endosymbiont, sequenced its genome, and showed that it is stably inherited across generation when injected into new hosts!

[mBio @mbiojournal]

Intracellular endosymbiont is capable of axenic culture and can be stably inherited across host generations. #mBio @gpmaeda @NancyMoran15 https://t.co/X6wBaLvsv9

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

It turns out this symbiotic bacterium highly expresses a horizontally acquired NRPS operon, that results in production of a small molecule with antifungal properties. (3/3)
(the whole story is a bit more complicated):
https://t.co/JwdQB7zyQs

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

How do insects fend off fungal pathogens, like cordyceps? Some aphids partner with symbiotic bacteria that provide protective effects, although how this actually works has been largely unknown...
(1/3)

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

Very excited to share the results of my second dissertation chapter - on the molecular mechanism of antifungal defense conferred by the aphid endosymbiont, Fukatsuia symbiotica! (2/3)

[Hannes Schuler @giova_schuler]

A few days left to apply.

We have an additional postdoc position opened to study #phytoplasma vector #insects all information about this position can be found here https://t.co/NOPZQQUFbt Please RT.

[Hansen Lab @HansenLab1]

Fun collaboration with Diana Percy and Patrick Degnan showing rapid loss (<1M) of nutritional symbionts in Hawaiian psyllids is associated with galling behavior. All psyllids (free-living, open gall, closed gall) radiated on the same host plant species over ~5MY.

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

Hopefully more on this coming out soon… 👀

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

My first dissertation chapter is out in mBio! We cultured a vertically transmitted endosymbiont, sequenced its genome, and showed that it is stably inherited across generation when injected into new hosts!

[mBio @mbiojournal]

Intracellular endosymbiont is capable of axenic culture and can be stably inherited across host generations. #mBio @gpmaeda @NancyMoran15 https://t.co/X6wBaLvsv9

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

Axenic cultivation of vertically transmitted bacteria is pretty uncommon… These results have some fun implications for what experimental approaches can be applied that haven’t been possible in this system until now!

[Evil MoPac @EvilMopacATX]

*First Amendment when it's convenient

[Hansen Lab @HansenLab1]

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
https://t.co/rQhO39cwpN

[Takema Fukatsu @fkttkm]

Super-amazing work by Takanori Nishino, Hiromi Mukai, Minoru Moriyama and other colleagues on a novel insect-microbe symbiosis is now available as preprint
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs https://t.co/VSmvB8OFa1

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

Fun! I think these are the lines that I’ve taken in Austin:
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You can probably guess what parts of town I’ve lived in 😅

[Transit Tangents @TransitTangent]

All of the @CapMetroATX Routes I've ridden 👀

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[Karina B. Xavier @KarinaXavierLab]

Applications for Project Manager of our training programs by @MooreFound entitled “Promoting PhD training on Host-Microbe Symbioses” (Grant GBMF11550); https://t.co/vYkR30vJC8. This includes our PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Apply by Feb05 https://t.co/GKu8xhjb56

[ErickMotta @ErickMotta19]

Exciting news! I am joining @tamuentomology as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2024! Seeking motivated M.S. and Ph.D. students interested in 🐝 gut microbiomes and their response to environmental stressors. Please RT!

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

How could I forget them? 🥺

[Louis DeAngelis @louisd217]

@gpmaeda You left out the brussel sprouts! 😅

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

Austin winter >>> Austin summer
(at least for gardening)

[SymbNET @SymbNET]

We start 2024 by inviting you to join us in Algarve, Portugal, on June 10-13, at the @SymbNET International Conference on #HostMicrobe Symbiosis. Save the date 🗓️and stay tuned for more details coming soon!
🎉HAPPY 2024!
https://t.co/lUNq6ld5rz

[Tory Hendry @ToryHendry]

Applications are open for the Microbial Friends & Foes REU! Please share with your undergrads looking for research experience. Open to US citizens, no prior experience necessary. Apply at https://t.co/lSEGKSKWkI by February 1. @cihmid @CornellMicrobio

[ErickMotta @ErickMotta19]

Grateful for the opportunity to write this review with Professor Nancy Moran about the current knowledge on the honeybee gut microbiota! Check it out in @NatureRevMicro: https://t.co/Aq7FNU7PuB #Microbiome #HoneybeeHealth

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

@yy_yiyuan_li Thanks YY!

[Jerry Maeda @gpmaeda]

First preprint of my Phd work is available online!

Intracellular defensive symbiont is culturable and capable of transovarial, vertical transmission https://t.co/3qy7auTJvM

Here’s a quick preview:
(1/8) 🧵