New preprint from @pawley.bsky.social @scottnichols.bsky.social is a great testament to how intentional imaging helps untangle potential functions and mechanisms of host-microbe interactions

The discovery of an external bacterial niche reconciles sequencing-based microbiomes in a freshwater sponge

The Lariviere lab at UMiami is recruiting PhD students! Incoming students will join us in studying host-microbe interactions in the honey bee gut, using molecular and genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

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Heritable symbiont producing nonribosomal peptide confers extreme heat sensitivity and antifungal protection on its host | PNAS Insects frequently form associations with maternally transmitted symbiotic bacteria. This transmission mode ensures that symbiont-conferred effects...

It turns out, this symbiotic bacterium highly expresses a horizontally acquired NRPS operon, resulting in the production of a small, antifungal molecule.

Grateful to have worked on a fun project with @nancy-moran.bsky.social

The results are a bit more complicated:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Heritable symbiont producing nonribosomal peptide confers extreme heat sensitivity and antifungal protection on its host | PNAS Insects frequently form associations with maternally transmitted symbiotic bacteria. This transmission mode ensures that symbiont-conferred effects...

Super excited to share the results of one of my favorite projects, out now in PNAS! We uncovered the mechanism of protection against fungal pathogens in the aphid-Fukatsuia symbiosis. (1/2)

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...