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ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Hassan Salem
Lab dinner
New publication: Convergent nutritional symbioses in leaf beetles
New publication: Microbial bases of herbivory in beetles
The lab heads to Kyoto: International Congress of Entomology
New lab members: Nomthi Kanyile & Frances Pitsillides
Four years of symbiosis research in Tübingen!
In the media: Why are there so many beetle species?
New publication: Paleocene origin of a digestive symbiosis
Toasting twice
New lab member: Aftab Ayas
New publication: Stammera colonisation dynamics in tortoise beetles
Hassan Salem selected as EMBO Young Investigator
New publication: The Nagoya Protocol and its impact on microbiology
New publication: Dual lifestyle of Fusarium
Poster award to Marleny García-Lozano at the SymbNET summer school
EMBL symposium: The cellular mechanics of symbiosis, Heidelberg, 2023
New lab member: Christiane Emmerich
New publication: Adaptive plasticity of insect eggs
Notice of Award: German Research Foundation

New publication: Leaf beetle propagates a phytopathogen in exchange for pupal protection

August 23, 2022

Thrilled to share our latest on a novel defensive mutualism between tortoise beetles and the ascomycete, Fusarium oxysporum. Fusarium confers protection for the beetle, and in exchange, the beetles vector the symbiont to their host plant. Led by Aileen Berasategui and Noa Breitenbach, and out today in Current Biology!

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