Hassan Salem, Ph.D.

Appointments

Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) | 2020 - Present
Max Planck Institute for Biology
Tübingen, Germany

Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow | 2019 - 2020
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington D.C.

College for Life Sciences Fellow | 2018 - 2019
Institute for Advanced Study - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow | 2016 - 2019
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Education

Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology | 2015
Summa cum laude

M.S. Miami University, Botany | 2010

B.A. Earlham College, Biology | 2008

Selected grants & awards

Young Investigator Award | 2023
European Molecular Biology Organization

Program Grant in Organismic Interactions | 2022
German Research Foundation

Max Planck Research Group Grant | 2020
Max Planck Society

Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2018
Smithsonian Institution

College for Life Sciences Fellowship  | 2018
Institute for Advanced Study - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Program Grant in Evolutionary Ecology  | 2017
National Science Foundation
(PI: Nicole Gerardo; Senior personnel: Hassan Salem)

Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship  | 2016
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Graduate Research Fellowship | 2010
Max Planck Society

Heimsch Graduate Award in Botany | 2010
Miami University

Wilkinson Award | 2004
Earlham College

Plowshares Award | 2004
Earlham College

Selected publications

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García-Lozano M, Henzler H, Porras M, Pons I, Berasategui A, Lanz C, Budde H, Oguchi K, Matsuura Y, Pauchet Y, Goffredi S, Fukatsu T, Windsor D, Salem H (2024) Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles. Current Biology, in press

Berasategui A, Jagdale S, Salem H. (2023) Fusarium phytopathogens as insect mutualists.
PLoS Pathogens, 17: e1011497.

Berasategui A, Breitenbach N, García-Lozano M, Pons I, Sailer B, Lanz C, Rodriguez V, Hipp K, Ziemert N, Windsor D, Salem H. (2022) The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection.
Current Biology, 32: 4114–4127.

Pons I, Porras M, Brietenbach N, Berger J, Hipp K, Salem H. (2022) For the road: Calibrated maternal investment in light of extracellular symbiont transmission.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences, 289: 20220386.

Salem H, Kirsch R, Pauchet Y, Berasategui A, Fukumori K, Moriama M, Cripps M, Windsor D, Fukatsu T, Gerardo N. (2020) Symbiont digestive range reflects host plant breadth in herbivorous beetles.
Current Biology, 30: 2875-2886.

Salem H, Bauer E, Kirsch R, Berasategui A, Cripps M, Weiss B, Koga R, Fukumori K, Vogel H, Fukatsu T, Kaltenpoth M. (2017) Drastic genome reduction in an herbivore’s pectinolytic symbiont.
Cell, 171: 1520-31.




Contact

Max-Planck-Ring 5, Tübingen
72076, Germany

Email: hassan.salem@tuebingen.mpg.de