Hassan Salem, Ph.D.
Appointments
Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) | 2020 - Present
Max Planck Institute for Biology
Tübingen, Germany
Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow | 2019 - 2020
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington D.C.
College for Life Sciences Fellow | 2018 - 2019
Institute for Advanced Study - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow | 2016 - 2019
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Education
Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology | 2015
Summa cum laude
M.S. Miami University, Botany | 2010
B.A. Earlham College, Biology | 2008
Selected grants & awards
Young Investigator Award | 2023
European Molecular Biology Organization
Program Grant in Organismic Interactions | 2022
German Research Foundation
Max Planck Research Group Grant | 2020
Max Planck Society
Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2018
Smithsonian Institution
College for Life Sciences Fellowship | 2018
Institute for Advanced Study - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Program Grant in Evolutionary Ecology | 2017
National Science Foundation
(PI: Nicole Gerardo; Senior personnel: Hassan Salem)
Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2016
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship | 2010
Max Planck Society
Heimsch Graduate Award in Botany | 2010
Miami University
Wilkinson Award | 2004
Earlham College
Plowshares Award | 2004
Earlham College
Selected publications
García-Lozano M, Salem H (2024) Microbial bases of herbivory in beetles.
Trends in Microbiology, in press.
García-Lozano M, Henzler H, Porras M, Pons I, Berasategui A, Lanz C, Budde H, Oguchi K, Matsuura Y, Pauchet Y, Goffredi S, Fukatsu T, Windsor D, Salem H (2024) Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles.
Current Biology, 34: 1621-1634.
Porras M, Pons I, García-Lozano M, Jagdale S, Emmerich C, Weiss B, Salem H (2024) Extracellular symbiont colonises insect during embryo development.
ISME Communications, 4: ycae005.
Berasategui A, Jagdale S, Salem H. (2023) Fusarium phytopathogens as insect mutualists.
PLoS Pathogens, 17: e1011497.
Berasategui A, Breitenbach N, García-Lozano M, Pons I, Sailer B, Lanz C, Rodriguez V, Hipp K, Ziemert N, Windsor D, Salem H. (2022) The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection.
Current Biology, 32: 4114–4127.
Pons I, Porras M, Brietenbach N, Berger J, Hipp K, Salem H. (2022) For the road: Calibrated maternal investment in light of extracellular symbiont transmission.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences, 289: 20220386.
Salem H, Kirsch R, Pauchet Y, Berasategui A, Fukumori K, Moriama M, Cripps M, Windsor D, Fukatsu T, Gerardo N. (2020) Symbiont digestive range reflects host plant breadth in herbivorous beetles.
Current Biology, 30: 2875-2886.
Salem H, Bauer E, Kirsch R, Berasategui A, Cripps M, Weiss B, Koga R, Fukumori K, Vogel H, Fukatsu T, Kaltenpoth M. (2017) Drastic genome reduction in an herbivore’s pectinolytic symbiont.
Cell, 171: 1520-31.
Contact
Max-Planck-Ring 5, Tübingen
72076, Germany
Email: hassan.salem@tuebingen.mpg.de