Aileen Berasategui
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Aileen Berasategui
@berasymbionts.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at A-LIFE VU Amsterdam | Chemical ecology of insect-microbe interactions 🪲🍄 🧬🇪🇸🇪🇺| PI of @ERC_Research: SymPathy
Super excited to be joining @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and to begin this new chapter in Norwich!!
And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Registration will open soon. But mark your calendars for another symposium on host-microbe interactions! Can't wait to see you all in Heidelberg!
September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses!
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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/...
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June 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM