Congratulations @acabirol.bsky.social from @pengellab.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social on this new publication @pnas.org 👏

Amélie Cabirol@acabirol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really happy to see our paper finally published in PNAS 🎉 We used honey bees to study how gut microbiota shape cognition and found that learning benefits only appear when the full microbial community is present — not with individual bacterial species alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really happy to see our paper finally published in PNAS 🎉 We used honey bees to study how gut microbiota shape cognition and found that learning benefits only appear when the full microbial community is present — not with individual bacterial species alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New study on honeybee gut microbiota! It shows how priority effects allow first-arriving strains to dominate their niche, creating unique microbial profiles even in identical environments. Cool Study! @aiswarya.bsky.social, @pengellab.bsky.social, @dmf-unil.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Priority effects drive strain-level community composition of honeybee gut microbiota

Abstract. Gut microbial communities often differ at the strain level among individual hosts, but the mechanisms driving this variation remain poorly unders

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🦠 Who gets there first... wins? 🐝 A new study on #honeybee #gut #microbiota shows that microbiome assembly isn’t just about who is present, but when they arrive. Published by @aiswarya.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 👉 Read the paper: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Priority effects drive strain-level community composition of honeybee gut microbiota

Abstract. Gut microbial communities often differ at the strain level among individual hosts, but the mechanisms driving this variation remain poorly unders

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New preprint! 🐝 We engineered a bacterial biosensor to reveal micron-scale arabinose gradients in the honeybee gut. Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. Great collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes at @fbm-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Engineered symbiont biosensor maps micron-scale sugar gradients in the honeybee gut

The honeybee gut microbiota plays a key role in shaping host health and susceptibility to disease. Yet, the nutrient environment it experiences within the gut remains poorly characterized. In particul...

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New preprint from our lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @aiswarya.bsky.social tested the role of priority effects in shaping the honeybee gut microbiota using an elegant combinatorial experimental design. A thread🧵....

🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota - Nature Communications

Authors analyse paired viral and bacterial shotgun metagenomics data from individual honeybee guts, revealing modular, nested phage–bacteria networks, with viral diversity mirroring bacterial strain c...

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Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

Evolution of gut microbiota across honeybee species revealed by comparative metagenomics

Nature Communications - Here, the authors perform metagenomic analysis of honeybee gut microbes, uncovering many previously unidentified species and host specific differences in composition and...

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Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation

Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

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Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates

Microbes release a wide range of metabolites into their environment, yet the reasons for this release and the factors that influence release rates are not well understood. Here, using a combination of...

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We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

New perspective with a comprehensive overview of the microbiome heritability concept www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts - Nature Microbiology

In this Perspective, Morris and Bohannan discuss heritability of microbiome-mediated traits across hosts and future research questions with implications for animal and plant breeding.

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I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky More info: mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

PhD studentship! Deadline Dec 11th 2024

SWbio application link: https://www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular-and-biophysical-studies/ For inquiries, please email: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Based in: University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK....

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CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msys...

Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe | mSystems

This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about climate change. Instead, we are demanding imm...

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PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Today in our #Symbiosis and #Evolution seminar series: @andrewhq9.bsky.social on the #HoneyBee #microbiota and the metabolic crosstalk between and among host and symbionts @dome-vienna.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social #SymbioSky

Very happy to see this published! 🤩Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. This is the result of a very nice collaboration with the @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes.

Yolanda Schaerli@yschaerli.bsky.social · 2y ago

#PLOSBiology: An engineered bacterial symbiont allows noninvasive biosensing of the honey bee gut environment dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Join us in the south of Portugal for the SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis. 10-13 June. Registration is open until 15th March. More details at igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky

#SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe #Symbiosis. June 10 - 13, 2024. Olhão, Portugal igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf... #SymbioSky

SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis

SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis Olhão, Portugal   About Hosts and microbes form long-term symbiotic interactions that shape their biology at multiple levels, from physiology...

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Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax

Philipp Engel@pengellab.bsky.social · 3y ago

Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪

Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT shorturl.at/dipvA

Finally published! We show that host metabolites facilitate gutcolonization of a symbiont of social bees. Huge congrats to co-lead authors @andrewhq9.bsky.social & Yassine El Chazli. Super collabo with NanoSIMS expert Anders Meibom EPFL and our Electron Microscopy Facility FBM_UNIL 🐝 🧪

Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi - Na...

Comparative metabolomics and NanoSIMs reveal that the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi uses host-derived metabolites to colonize the gut, indicating adaptation to a specific metabolic niche in it...

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We have a ‘new’ preprint spearheaded by @joanitoliberti.bsky.social It is not an easy one to get pass the editorial desk of journals, may be because we challenge previous findings. However, IMO it is an important contribution to our field & will help improving future gnotobiotic bee experiments 👇🧪

Joanito Liberti@joanitoliberti.bsky.social · 3y ago

🐝 New preprint on the link between the gut microbiota, behavior and physiology in honeybees! 🧠🍯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Follow the 🧵…

Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪

A new preprint from our collabo with the Schaerli lab at UNIL. Amélie Cabirol and Audam Chhun teamed up with others from the two labs to investigate fecal sampling and transplantation in honey bees 🦠 🤓 🐝 to better understand gut microbiota transmission. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After two long incubation periods at the journal's desk, our #metagenomics study on #strain level differences in the bee gut microbiota has been published. Big thank you to 1st author Gilles Baud, Kirsten Ellegaard, & @aiswarya.bsky.social l who pushed the paper across the finish line. 🧪 🐝 🦠

Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome betwee...

Background Strain-level diversity is widespread among bacterial species and can expand the functional potential of natural microbial communities. However, to what extent communities undergo consistent...

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The course lectures & symposium talks from the 2023 @isbsci.bsky.social Virtual Microbiome Series are now edited & posted to YouTube! If you have students who need a crash course in 16S data analysis or community-scale metabolic modeling, send them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

2023 ISB Microbiome Series

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Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities Nature Microbiology perspective by @kostchristian.bsky.social et al @sarilog.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Almost time for our annual, in person, Impromptu symposium! November 24 in the Biophore at UNIL in Lausanne. This year's topic ‘The many sides of microbial evolution’ with 7 fantastic speakers. Registration is free at: forms.gle/NnLkTXbFTmLE...