Kali Swichtenberg

I poke bugs and call it science | Bio PhD candidate @asuSOLS studying symbiotic termite protists | Ento MS (@Purdue)

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

First paper during my PhD! I can’t stress enough the amazing amount of work @nicole_coots put into not only this paper but in developing the CURE that produced it and the rest of her PhD!

A description of Reticulitermes tibialis symbionts

https://t.co/bX1W0jtsf9

[Andrew J. Roger (@andrewjroger.bsky.social) @andrewjroger]

Really excited about our new paper on symbiosomes of the Anaeramoebae!!!

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

Come see my talk at ESA! Cool protists in cool termites! #EntSoc24

[Int Union for the Study of Social Insects - NAS @IUSSI_NAS]

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[Nicole Coots @nicole_coots]

🤗I'm excited and nervous!

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

I guess I should have prefaced the topic lol. I’ll be exploring the diversity of termite-associated protists

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

If anyone is interested, I’ll be walking through my research process and prelim data at the last Social Insect Research Group seminar of the year at 11am MST tomorrow (Friday)! Feel free to stop by on zoom if you want to see what I’ve been up to!

https://t.co/OP8xdHklPY

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

@HSchilbert @Seeste3 @siel_mann @boas_pucker Congrats!!!

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

@termiteiago Thank you!

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

Changed title to PhD candidate 🍾🎉🤙 one step closer to Dr. Swichtenberg

[International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP @ice2024kyoto_jp]

Application is now open!

[Next Gen Scientists Foundation @GenScientists]

A thread with a ton of Ph.D., PostDoc, and other opportunities for life science students (1/n)

[Damien Gergonne @Dams_Gergonne]

Time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites. Let's say “protist-dependent termites” or “non-Termitidae termites”. A call from @tiagoias and other great termitologists
https://t.co/NfTTCItt3l

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

Ok maybe not easily. But you all know what I mean 😂

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

The internet prevails!

Thank you so much to @ScottChialvoLab for providing some beautiful Cryptocercus!

While I’m no longer in dire need, if anyone else does find some more in different locations, a population comparison study could easily be done!

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

@derekhennen @AgeOfArthropods Alive! I will be looking at/sequencing the microbes in their guts and those don't do well preserved

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

Hello ento-Twitter! I need some Cryptocercus for my research, would anyone in/near the Appalachians be interested in a little collaboration and be able to help this Arizona grad student get her hands on some wood roaches??

[Tim Linksvayer @tlinksvayer]

My lab will continue to use a range of approaches to study the evolution and genetic basis of social insect 🐜🐝 traits from queen-worker dimorphism to collective behavior. We’ll be looking for excited PhD and undergrad students as well as postdocs to join us!

[InsectaBio @InsectaBio]

InsectaBio is excited to announce three travel awards for students planning to present a talk or poster at the Entomological Society of America 2023 meeting in National Harbor, MD!

Details: https://t.co/zb1alwDMPV
Application: https://t.co/vGF67Y0dmB

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

Just wanted to note this this is only showing 150 of the >240 OTUs recovered lol. Oxymonadida is not presented here, just Parabasalia

[Kali Swichtenberg @kswichte]

So happy to be so warmly welcomed to the #protistology community at the ECOP-ISOP meeting in Vienna and to present my results on long read amplicon sequencing of termite gut microbiomes!

I recovered 240 protist OTUs from 30 host species spanning protist-dependent termites!