A warm welcome to our newest mutualists! Frances is joining us as an IMPRS Graduate Student after a research stay at the Kew Gardens with Ester Gaya. Nomthi is an incoming postdoctoral researcher following her graduate training at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. Welcome, Nomthi & Frances!
Four years of symbiosis research in Tübingen!
The lab celebrated its fourth year at the Max Planck Institute for Biology! We did so by gathering around a grill on a perfect summer evening, together with a beetle-shaped piñata!
In the media: Why are there so many beetle species?
How come beetles are so speciose? And did their symbionts play a role in their diversification and ecological radiations? Knowable Magazine covers these questions and our recent work on beetle-microbe symbioses.
New publication: Paleocene origin of a digestive symbiosis
What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition and molecular evolution shape host adaptation and diversification?
We ask these questions of leaf beetles in our latest, led by Marleny Garcia-Lozano, and out today in Current Biology!
