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

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