Biology and Evolution of Symbiosis (BESymb)
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 covering bioluminiscent symbiosis in Flashlight fish (Chang Liu), microbiome responses to global warming through meta-analyses (Jingdi Li), Honey bee immune system and their gut microbiome (Shiqi Luo), genomic factors of cytoplasmatic incompatibility in Wolbachia (Yongjun Tan), Arctic sponge species’ microbiomes (Anastasiia Rusanova), evolutionary forces driving Blattabacterium‘s convergent gene losses (Zhuli Cheng), multi-omics of the chemosymbiotic Alviniconcha snails (Hui Wang), and the co-evolution of host and gut bacteria during Honey bee acclimation (Min Tang).