📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

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Mayank Chugh THIS 👆 is why I struggle to understand why some researchrs from the global north argue they do not want to attend ISME first meeting on the African continent because of their carbon footprint. The consequence is scientific segregation.

Yaay! Thank you Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth), family and friends for all your support :)

Important comment from Hassan Salem and Martin Kaltenpoth on the Nagoya Protocol and its implications for microbiology: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Happy to share that our new article describing nutritional intracellular Burkholderia symbionts in scale insects has just been published in ISME J!! with Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth)

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Today marks 20 years since the publication of The Kite Runner. I am so proud to announce the publication of this special edition to commemorate its anniversary.

Sayumi Oishi's amazing work on insect hormonal regulation over morphology and function of symbiotic organ and essential bacterial mutualist therein upon metamorphosis finally comes out!
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A Journey Driven by Passion and Perseverance: From Estcourt to FIFA Women's World Cup

📰: ufsweb.co/3P36pcu

#WomensMonth 2023 | #WomensMonth | #UFSWomen | #FIFAWWC

🚨Happy that our paper on ants 🐜 and worms 🪱 is out! nature.com/articles/s4146… Great team effort by Bhoomika Erik Frank Thalita Oliveira-Honorato, Fumika Azuma, Valérie Bachmann, Evan Economo Darren J. Parker, Thomas Schmitt & Yuko Ulrich!

If you are working with insects and need histological techniques have a look at this great new book. Benjamin Weiss, technician and histology expert in the Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth) published the book based on his many years of experience in the field!
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The Max Planck Society (Max Planck Society) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are jointly financing a competitive funding programme for ambitious and excellent African early career researchers heading a research unit. Call for application 👇🏼

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New chapter on the beewolf symbiosis & host's antimicrobial NO defense: the Streptomyces symbionts deal better with NO than free-living bacs, still depend on host hydrocarbons as diffusion barrier to survive the broodcell fumigation with NO. 👏to great work by Chantal and Bernal!

Happy to share our work now out in Frontiers 🎉!

We are very proud that our director Martin Kaltenpoth from the Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth) has been elected as a new EMBO member for outstanding contributions to biological research. #EMBO ice.mpg.de/450151/Martin-…

NRF-iThemba LABS researcher, Dr Edward Nkadimeng, is recognised as a 2023 #MG200Young leading innovator! His expertise has contributed to the delivery of prototype 🇿🇦 electronics for the upgrade at CERN, the world's largest particle physics research facility. thebulrushes.com/2023/06/23/dr-…

Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects nature.com/articles/s4155…

Happy to share our new paper on symbiont colonization dynamics in #Lagria beetles - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
🎉 Rebekka Janke, Insect Symbiosis Lab (Martin Kaltenpoth), Laura V. Flórez!

Our new #Venomics paper is published @Toxins_Mdpi mdpi.com/2257056 #mdpitoxins 😃
We fractionated assassin bug venom to identify cytotoxic compounds and found that multiple proteins from different protein families are involved in cytotoxicity.

Missing repeatedly a Chemical Ecology textbook for MSc & PhD level, we teamed up and wrote one, covering interactions between all domains of live and 50 experts of diverse backgrounds! To publish open access and need your financial support. Pls donate & RT gofund.me/f40af751