Biology and Evolution of Symbiosis (BESymb)
Another year of the GRS/GRC animal-microbe symbioses meeting! As always great science all-around. As chair of the GRS meeting, got to read great abstracts, visit posters and interact with a bunch of scientists in their Masters, PhD, and Postdoc stages. At the GRC, co-chaired by Thomas Bosch (University Kiel, Germany) and Martin Kaltenpoth (MPI – Jena, Germany), the larger group of symbiosis-driven researchers joined us for even more days of research and fun! I got to present my work on leech nutritional endosymbionts and the evolution of their funky genomes. As a bonus, got my selfie with Takema, ten years or so since we first met in Krakow.
Can’t wait to hopefully be able to join to the 2025 edition!