Happy to announce that Nomthi Khanyile defended her PhD thesis on 'Ecological implications of tyrosine-supplementing symbiosis in grain pest beetles' - supervised in the Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth) (co-supervisors: Tobias Engl Nicole van Dam Enric Frago) - successfully! Congratulations Nomthi!🎓🎉

Our group's histology wizard, Benjamin Weiss, published his book on techniques of insect histology, with detailed protocols and lots of valuable information on how to do histology properly and get good results. Fantastic work, Benni!
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Excited to share our latest paper on the beewolf symbiosis:

Do you want to establish your own research group working in the area of chemically-mediated interactions among organisms? Does your research complement and interact synergistically with our research? If yes, check the call and contact us for details.
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Exciting news! Our latest publication on dual bacterial symbiosis in xylophagous beetles is out now The ISME Journal. #symbiosis #Bostrichidae -
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Congratulations to Maike Fischer for her exciting new paper! Please read it in Proc. Roy. Soc. B!
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I'm happy that my second PhD chapter is published now Royal Society Publishing, #ProcB !
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We investigated the impact of ecological niches on venom compostion and activity in water bugs.

We are very proud of all our amazing speakers and poster presenters at the IMPRS symposium!
Congrats especially to Nomthi Khanyile, Ana Baños and Ramya Ganesan for their award-winning contributions!
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We are looking for a PhD candidate working on 'The molecular basis of symbiosis establishment in beetles' in the framework of our IMPRS graduate school 'Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems' Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. Find all the offered projects and apply here ice.mpg.de/296548/current…

And from our side, wecome to Jena Keller Jean. We are happy to have you here and are looking forward to exciting insights into beetle symbioses!

Recently we had Rebekka Janke & Julian Kiefer defend their doctoral theses in an amazing double feature on defensive and nutritious bacterial symbionts of beetles. Congratulations to both of you! Universität Mainz Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Excited to see our new review out in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews on the bacterial factors mediating the establishment of host-beneficial symbioses in invertebrates:
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Our latest paper on grain best beetle symbioses is out in Molecular Ecology - not on nutritional symbionts, but reproductive manipulation by Wolbachia in O.surinamensis which seemed to have changed its phenotype during adaptation to grain storages. Team with Julian Kiefer Tobias Engl et al🥳

Our perspectives paper with Denise Dearing and Jonathan Gershenzon on detoxifying symbionts in herbivores is out in 'Symbiosis'. Thanks to both for the wonderful collaboration and great discussions!
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Our paper from Rebekka Janke on 'Morphological adaptation for ectosymbiont maintenance and transmission during metamorphosis in Lagria beetles' is out in Frontiers in Physiology:
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Excited to share our recent paper in ISME J on the chemical defense of Lagria beetle larvae by Burkholderia symbionts, spearheaded by Rebekka Janke and Laura Flórez:
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Happy to announce that Nomthi Khanyile received the award for the best talk and Ana Simão Pinto de Carvalho the award for the best poster at the 10th International Symbiosis Society congress. Both are doctoral researchers in the Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth). Congratulations! 👏👏

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