Had the pleasure of joining the SymbNET Summer School 2025 on Host-Microbe Symbiosis in Oeiras, Portugal 🌿🧬
A week of great talks, posters, and group projects with amazing PhDs + faculty from all over the world. Our team’s project even got 2nd place out of 7! 🎉New ideas, friendships, and inspiration

Fascinating evening at the Long Night of Sciences @idiv-research.bsky.social ! Loved engaging with kids & adults about symbionts, insects & bees 🐝 Grateful for the amazing support from the iDiv events team, colleagues & Marc Hoffmann, who educated public about German bee fauna! 🪱🐝🦋

If you’re interested in bees and their friends, do come to iDiv long night of sciences 🐝🐛🪱 there will be public education of bees and a dark room!

Late post: got this year’s DAAD prize for outstanding academic achievements and remarkable social or intercultural commitment. Thanks to all those people who supported my cause, ideas found encouragement, and the opportunity to action! 🌸#inclusivity @unihalle.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

🌱 On #BiodiversityDay, #iDiv researchers reflect on biodiversity — and now we are asking you. What makes biodiversity fascinating?

@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long live introverts! 😉Not the bravest mice 🐭, but the shy ones turn out to be the most persistent problem-solvers, according to a new study by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. mpg.de/24460941/mic... #evolution #animalbehaviour

Ever wonder how to count very rare and unculturable #microbes? Our new #preprint 🥳 shows that we can use #ddPCR to count as few as 12 #endosymbiont genomes in a 20 uL reaction!🤯 Yes, this is a teaser for things to come.😉 #Wolbachia #Drosophila #SymbioSky #Entomology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It’s a pleasure to receive this recognition, as all the talks were truly fabulous! Many thanks to iDiv, and a special shoutout to my amazing technicians, who went above and beyond to assist me with challenging experiments and counting thousands of flies 🪰 #Spiroplasma #evolution

What happens to the #genome of #bacteria as their association with the host becomes ever more intimate?🧪🦠

A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure

New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co
#evolution #genomics #microbiology

www.cell.com/current-biol...