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Last week, Pegah Kalatehjari joined the team! Pegah joins us from Iran, with a background in aquaculture, leech biology and reproduction. She will work on the...

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ESEB 2025 just wrapped up last week. It was a great week of talks, posters, and informal chats about all things evolution. Particularly, it was great...

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Taking advantage of the trip to China for SMBE 2025, Alejandro visited the group of Jun-Bo Luan (https://www.junboluanlab.com/) at the Shenyang Agricultural University (沈阳农业大学). It was...

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Along with Jun-Bo Luan (https://www.junboluanlab.com/), we organised the Symbiosis symposium at SMBE 2025 (Beijing, China). We were thrilled to see the turnout and the great talks...

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In collaboration with Anouk Willemsen (Uniersity of Vienna), we sequenced high-quality genomes of protists known as hosts of giant viruses (GVs). Matching of codon usage preferences...

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Very happy the first group project SymBirth: Development of an artificial symbiont’s birth has been funded by the FWF’s 1000 ideas program. This program aims to...

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After many years in the making (and an eternal cycle of adding new data….) our work on the discordance among phylogenomic datasets in is out! Relationships...

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Pluralibacter now joins the (very) selected group of genera from which obligate nutritional symbionts of leeches have evolved from. As the previously known Providencia, this novel...

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Another year of the International FISH course, where participants bring challenging samples and we help them design and apply the best strategy possible to analyse and...

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Back from a great FEMS 2023 edition. This year, a symbiosis session was organised by Martin Kaltenpoth (MPI – Jena). There was a great line-up of...

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