Philipp Engel
@pengellab.bsky.social
Microbiologist at UNIL Switzerland, interested in Microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, evolution and genomics, and social bees
engelbeelab.com
engelbeelab.com
🐝🦠 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
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
🐝🦠 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
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
Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇
Evolution of gut microbiota across honeybee species revealed by comparative metagenomics
Nature Communications - Here, the authors perform metagenomic analysis of honeybee gut microbes, uncovering many previously unidentified species and host specific differences in composition and...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social.
This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!
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www.cell.com/current-biol...
This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!
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www.cell.com/current-biol...
Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation
Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated
Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont,
USA. Adaptation i...
www.cell.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social.
This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!
🧵
www.cell.com/current-biol...
This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!
🧵
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates
Microbes release a wide range of metabolites into their environment, yet the reasons for this release and the factors that influence release rates are not well understood. Here, using a combination of...
www.biorxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.
Opportunités de carrière : Research Associate position in bioinformatics support (22124)
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February 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.
We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics/gut microbiota ecology and evolution (22087)
career5.successfactors.eu
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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New perspective with a comprehensive overview of the microbiome heritability concept
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts - Nature Microbiology
In this Perspective, Morris and Bohannan discuss heritability of microbiome-mediated traits across hosts and future research questions with implications for animal and plant breeding.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:25 AM
New perspective with a comprehensive overview of the microbiome heritability concept
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky
More info:
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More info:
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PhD studentship! Deadline Dec 11th 2024
SWbio application link: https://www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular-and-biophysical-studies/ For inquiries, please email: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Based in: University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK....
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November 13, 2024 at 3:06 PM
I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky
More info:
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
More info:
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
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CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msys...
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe | mSystems
This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an
emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about climate change.
Instead, we are demanding imm...
doi.org
November 11, 2024 at 5:02 PM
CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msys...
PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky
Opportunités de carrière : PhD position in gut microbiota ecology and evolution (21945)
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November 6, 2024 at 7:20 PM
PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky
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Today in our #Symbiosis and #Evolution seminar series: @andrewhq9.bsky.social on the #HoneyBee #microbiota and the metabolic crosstalk between and among host and symbionts
@dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky
@dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky
May 8, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Today in our #Symbiosis and #Evolution seminar series: @andrewhq9.bsky.social on the #HoneyBee #microbiota and the metabolic crosstalk between and among host and symbionts
@dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky
@dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky
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Very happy to see this published! 🤩Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. This is the result of a very nice collaboration with the @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes.
#PLOSBiology: An engineered bacterial symbiont allows noninvasive biosensing of the honey bee gut environment dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
An engineered bacterial symbiont allows noninvasive biosensing of the honey bee gut environment
The honey bee is a powerful model system to probe host-gut microbiota interactions. This study describes the genetic engineering of a native bacterial symbiont of the honey bee to non-invasively sense...
dx.plos.org
March 5, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Very happy to see this published! 🤩Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. This is the result of a very nice collaboration with the @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes.
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Join us in the south of Portugal for the SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis. 10-13 June. Registration is open until 15th March. More details at igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky
February 21, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Join us in the south of Portugal for the SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis. 10-13 June. Registration is open until 15th March. More details at igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky
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#SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe #Symbiosis. June 10 - 13, 2024. Olhão, Portugal
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#SymbioSky
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#SymbioSky
SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis
SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis Olhão, Portugal About Hosts and microbes form long-term symbiotic interactions that shape their biology at multiple levels, from physiology...
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February 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
#SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe #Symbiosis. June 10 - 13, 2024. Olhão, Portugal
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#SymbioSky
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#SymbioSky
Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax
Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪
January 26, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax
Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT
shorturl.at/dipvA
shorturl.at/dipvA
January 16, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT
shorturl.at/dipvA
shorturl.at/dipvA
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...
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January 15, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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 🐝 🧪
We have a ‘new’ preprint spearheaded by @joanitoliberti.bsky.social It is not an easy one to get pass the editorial desk of journals, may be because we challenge previous findings. However, IMO it is an important contribution to our field & will help improving future gnotobiotic bee experiments 👇🧪
🐝 New preprint on the link between the gut microbiota, behavior and physiology in honeybees! 🧠🍯
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Follow the 🧵…
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Follow the 🧵…
January 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM
We have a ‘new’ preprint spearheaded by @joanitoliberti.bsky.social It is not an easy one to get pass the editorial desk of journals, may be because we challenge previous findings. However, IMO it is an important contribution to our field & will help improving future gnotobiotic bee experiments 👇🧪
Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪
December 8, 2023 at 8:01 PM
Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪
A new preprint from our collabo with the Schaerli lab at UNIL. Amélie Cabirol and Audam Chhun teamed up with others from the two labs to investigate fecal sampling and transplantation in honey bees 🦠 🤓 🐝 to better understand gut microbiota transmission. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 8, 2023 at 7:49 PM
A new preprint from our collabo with the Schaerli lab at UNIL. Amélie Cabirol and Audam Chhun teamed up with others from the two labs to investigate fecal sampling and transplantation in honey bees 🦠 🤓 🐝 to better understand gut microbiota transmission. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
After two long incubation periods at the journal's desk, our #metagenomics study on #strain level differences in the bee gut microbiota has been published. Big thank you to 1st author Gilles Baud, Kirsten Ellegaard, & @aiswarya.bsky.social l who pushed the paper across the finish line. 🧪 🐝 🦠
Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome betwee...
Background Strain-level diversity is widespread among bacterial species and can expand the functional potential of natural microbial communities. However, to what extent communities undergo consistent...
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December 8, 2023 at 7:34 PM
After two long incubation periods at the journal's desk, our #metagenomics study on #strain level differences in the bee gut microbiota has been published. Big thank you to 1st author Gilles Baud, Kirsten Ellegaard, & @aiswarya.bsky.social l who pushed the paper across the finish line. 🧪 🐝 🦠
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The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
2023 ISB Microbiome Series
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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December 8, 2023 at 5:08 PM
The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities
Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 24, 2023 at 7:52 AM
Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities
Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Almost time for our annual, in person, Impromptu symposium! November 24 in the Biophore at UNIL in Lausanne. This year's topic ‘The many sides of microbial evolution’ with 7 fantastic speakers. Registration is free at: forms.gle/NnLkTXbFTmLE...
September 27, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Almost time for our annual, in person, Impromptu symposium! November 24 in the Biophore at UNIL in Lausanne. This year's topic ‘The many sides of microbial evolution’ with 7 fantastic speakers. Registration is free at: forms.gle/NnLkTXbFTmLE...
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The strain on scientific publishing 📄:
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
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#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
September 29, 2023 at 7:50 AM
The strain on scientific publishing 📄:
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat