🌟BIG NEWS!🌟 The Isala train is back on track! We are looking for 1000 women to participate in groundbreaking research on women’s health! Head to the Isala website and register to write history together! isala.be/en/

New Research: The Eurasian spruce bark beetle Ips typographus shapes the microbial communities of its offspring and the gallery environment frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #microbiology

Several thousand people were on the streets in #Jena today to stand up for democracy and an open society. Many co-workers from our institute joined including international scientists. #Demokratie #noafd

Four-day-old red-eyed tree frog embryos sit outside the water, glued to vegetation.

(Photo Christian Ziegler)

Mealybugs mating! I'm forever fascinated by their extreme sexual dimorphism. To give an idea of size, the female is 2mm in length.

Phenacoccus madeirensis (Pseudococcidae) #InverteFest 1/2

We proudly present the winners of our best talk and poster competition at the 22nd IMPRS Symposium: Francesca Protti, Ana Baños, P.M.Venkatesh, Nomthi Khanyile, Marina Quadrado, and Ramya Ganesan! Congratulations!

Speechless! HAPPY! Pinching ourselves! #NobelPrize2022 in Physiology or Medicine😁🥳😃🙃🤗😊🤗🙃🥳😃😁😀 🥳😃😁😀🙃🤗😊😆🤣😆Svante Pääbo MPI-EVA Leipzig 😆😊🤗Max Planck Society 🙃😀😁😃🥳😃😀🙃🤗😊🤣😆🤣😊😊🤗🤗🙃🥳😀😆🤗😊🙃🥳😃😀😆😊🤗🙃🙂😄😲😀😁😃🥳🙃🤗😊🤗🙃🥳😃😁😀😲🥳😊 🥳

I don’t know why I always think about this when filling out forms.

Exciting work by friend and colleague Alfonso (Poncho) Aceves A on a super effective predator! Check out their paper for impressive videos, pictures and behavioral observations of a bark-dwelling spider 😲🕷️⚔️🐜 #behaviour #ecology

Got a text earlier today that “the queen died” and I nearly texted back “which colony??” until I realized the text was from my spouse and not a actually about bumble bees in the lab. 🐝

The main #chapter of my PhD is out The ISME Journal! nature.com/articles/s4139…
It has a special place in my heart since we've been working on this project when I started my PhD.
Thanks and congrats to everyone involved including #TeamLagria , Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth) and Hertweck Lab
#Lagria

Happy to attend such an exciting conference! #issholobiont2022

We are offering two postdoc positions in insect symbiosis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany!

Bad Map Projection: Madagascator xkcd.com/2613/ m.xkcd.com/2613/

Registration is open for 'The new microbiology' EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course in Spetses, Greece, organized by Pascale Cossart, Roberto Kolter, Bruno Lemaitre, and Nassos Typas.

Ukrainian scientists working on chemical ecology, get in touch with our institute!!!

Fascinating new study from the Fukatsu lab identifying a single mutation making E. coli a gut symbiont of bugs in an experimental evolution setting: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ameet Pinto

Please distribute: applications for the 7th intake of the European Master PlantHealth, where I also participate as Guest Lecturer, are open: planthealth.upv.es/web/news/call-…. Scholarships and travel grants available; excellent career opportunities. Application deadline: 15 January 2022

The FLORIDA Forest Entomology Lab is looking for two postdocs: 1) Research on a beetle&fungus threat to the American sweetgum, 2) Frontier questions about the ambrosia beetle-fungus symbiosis: ambrosiasymbiosis.org/2021/03/2-beet… Entomological Society of America Mycological Society of America The American Phytopathological Society