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Philipp Engel
@pengellab.bsky.social
Microbiologist at UNIL Switzerland, interested in Microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, evolution and genomics, and social bees
engelbeelab.com
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Finally published! We show that host metabolites facilitate gutcolonization of a symbiont of social bees. Huge congrats to co-lead authors @andrewhq9.bsky.social & Yassine El Chazli. Super collabo with NanoSIMS expert Anders Meibom EPFL and our Electron Microscopy Facility FBM_UNIL 🐝 🧪
Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi - Na...
Comparative metabolomics and NanoSIMs reveal that the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi uses host-derived metabolites to colonize the gut, indicating adaptation to a specific metabolic niche in it...
Congratulations @pengellab.bsky.social@andrewhq9.bsky.social et. al.!
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Philipp Engel
@pengellab.bsky.social
Microbiologist at UNIL Switzerland, interested in Microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, evolution and genomics, and social bees
engelbeelab.com
274 followers121 following11 posts