The lab took part in a wonderful symposium in Heidelberg. Marleny & Inès both presented their exciting posters on leaf beetle-bacterial symbioses, and Hassan gave a talk on Aileen’s fungal work. An award sash was given to the best poster, which Inès brought home - congratulations, Dr. Pons!
Christiane Emmerich joins the group as a Technical Research Assistant. Welcome, Christiane!
The insect egg is a sessile life stage but not a passive one. So how do eggs sense and respond to their environment? And which adaptations allow them to actively shape it? We cover these questions, and a few others, in our latest with Monika Hilker and Nina Fatouros. Out today in the Annual Review of Entomology!
Welcome news from the DFG! The Program Grant on Organismic Interactions will fund our efforts to study how symbioses fuel evolutionary innovation in leaf beetles. New opportunities to join the group will be advertised soon!
