Frances Pitsillides

Education

Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Biology | 2024 - Present
Tübingen, Germany

M.S. University College London | 2018-2022
London, U.K.

Fellowships

IMPRS Graduate Research Fellowship | 2024
International Max Planck Research School

Research interests

My research focuses on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of defensive symbioses in leaf beetles.

Publications

[Google Scholar]

Hill, R, Levicky Q, Pitsillides F, Junnonen A, Arrigoni E, Bonnin M, Gaya E. (2023). Tapping Culture Collections for Fungal Endophytes: First Genome Assemblies for Three Genera and Five Species in the Ascomycota. Genome Biology and Evolution, doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad038

Contact

Max-Planck-Ring 5, Tübingen
72076, Germany

Email: frances.pitsillides@tuebingen.mpg.de