Charlotte Huyghe
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Charlotte Huyghe
@charlottehuyghe.bsky.social
🇧🇪 PostDoc at the Engel Lab, University of Lausanne🇨🇭Investigating host-microbiome co-diversification in social bees | PhD in diet adaptations of cichlid fishes in the Salzburger lab
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🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A
Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications
Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Even the cichlid fish eggs of Lake Tanganyika are highly diverse!

Picture by Grégoire Vernaz and Anja Haefeli

www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/09/04/f...
Fishing for biodiversity
Horizons - In brief
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September 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
1st of May five years ago, I started my PhD at the Salzburger lab in Basel, and yesterday I started my postdoc at the Engel lab in Lausanne! I’m grateful for these past five years and looking forward to this new opportunity!
May 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🚨Our new paper, which was part of my doctoral research at the @unibas.ch, uses shotgun metagenomics to identify the diet of Lake Tanganyikan cichlid #fish, revealing an even greater diversity of food sources within their adaptive radiation!

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Metagenomic Insights Into the Dietary Diversity of the Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes in Lake Tanganyika
Diet specialisation is a main driver of diversification in many adaptive radiations. Therefore, identifying diet items is essential to characterise trophic specialisations and to understand the dynam...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Huyghe
The ichthyofauna of Northern Zambia is largely understudied and highly threatened by such spillages. 🐟 #conservation

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy that I could be part of this new study on the feeding ecology of the Maghreb bleak, Tropidophoxinellus callensis, in Algeria

doi.org/10.15421/012...
picture credit: Baikeche et al., 2021 (Biodivers. J.)
February 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Last Friday, I defended my PhD work of the last 4 years and officially became a Doctor in Biology!! 🇨🇭🧬🐠🍤🍾 @unibas.ch
December 10, 2024 at 2:17 PM
This is a video that I made about a year ago, as an alternative presentation on the EMPSEB28 conference. Have a look if you want to know more about my PhD study and what we did during our fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika:

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Diving for cichlids: PhD fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika 2020-2022
This video gives a glimpse of what I did during my fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika in Africa during 2020 and 2022. For my PhD, I study diet adaptations in cichl...
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March 7, 2024 at 2:19 PM