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Lab Retreat in Ringberg Castle
New lab member: Kathrine Tan
New adventures: Christine
Notice of Award: European Research Council
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

Congress of the International Society of Symbiosis, Lyon 2022

August 02, 2022

A wonderful iteration of the ISS congress in Lyon. Ines, Marleny, and Aileen all gave excellent talks on their latest insect-microbe work, and Miguel Ángel netted the Best Poster Award based on his research with Nicole Dubilier and Niko Leisch. Congratulations to you all!

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New publication: Beetle regulation of symbiont transmission

April 28, 2022

Faithful transmission of beneficial symbionts is critical for the persistence of mutualisms. But how do mothers balance investment against the risk of symbiont loss? We are super proud to see the group’s latest published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, led by Dr. Inès Pons. Congratulations, Inès!

National Geographic feature on host-microbe symbioses

April 21, 2022

How do microbes influence animal behaviour and physiology? Pleased to see our work, together with the labs of Ruth Ley and Thomas Bosch, highlighted in the latest print edition of National Geographic!

Thesis defense: Noa Breitenbach

January 27, 2022

Congratulations to Noa on defending her thesis on beetle-fungal symbioses! An excellent excuse for the lab to come together around pizza, cake and sect: a winning trifecta!

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