This was a huge team effort, with @NadineZiemert @NicoleGerardo @HassanSalem @abraham_moller @QuimiMontoya @caitlin_e_conn and the twitterless Andre Rodrigues, Yuliana Christopher and Tim Read!

Parasitism demands the work of specialists. We defined the weird and wonderful secondary metabolism of Escovopsis, fungal parasites of fungus-farming ants. Out today in @mSystemsJ! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🦠 🧪 🧫

Thank you @amanzanom.bsky.social#ECESymbiosis2015 reunion 💛

AMamanzanom.bsky.socialApr 19, 2024 3:56pm

Great past few days hosting @berasymbionts.bsky.social at our seminar series @dome-vienna.bsky.social. Cool research, cool bugs, cool symbiosis, and getting together with some old friends from the IGC's host-microbe symbiosis: old friends and foes workshop (a befitting title).

What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification? We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by Marleny Lozano & out today in CurrentBiology! www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧵1/n 🦠 🧪 🧫

Already looking forward to June! 🍄🧬

NTtalbotlabtsl.bsky.socialDec 18, 2023 5:53pm

Very excited to announce the 2024 Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology GRC organised by @annaselmecki.bsky.social & myself with theme of 'Fungal Communication' in all of its diverse forms. Check out speakers & program using QR code below.

Important article by @hassansalem.bsky.social#Nagoyawww.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our preprint is out👇 We report that Coccomyxa viridis is frequent in lichens as a low-abundance alga present in addition to the main photobiont. The high-quality genome of C. viridis that we produced shows some signatures of lichen lifestyle. But it all began with an accident 🧵

📣NEWS - Hijack mechanism used by parasitic phytoplasma bacteria holds innovation potential for biotech & biomedicine @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social@kamounlab.bsky.socialwww.tsl.ac.uk/news/bacteri...

Bacterial Hijack Mechanism with Biotech Potential

Best news- so proud!! 🪲🍄🧬🧫

Elated to be joining this year’s cohort of EMBO Young Investigators! Proud of the whole lab & thankful for the chance to science w/ some exceptional folks @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social

MPmaxplanckcampus.bsky.socialDec 5, 2023 1:30pm

Congratulations to Hassan Salem who has been selected as part of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) - Young Investigator Programme! The initiative supports excellent young group leaders in the early stages of their independent careers. More: www.bio.mpg.de/313813/news_...