In June, lab members presented their research at two conferences in the field of host-microbe symbioses: the Wolbachia meeting in Greece, and Gordon Research Conference in Animal-Microbe Symbioses in Italy.

Karol Nowak attended the Wolbachia 2023 meeting in Crete, Grece. He gave an oral presentation entitled “Two birds with one stone: Validating COI barcoding as a low cost, high throughput, and high resolution method of Wolbachia screening across insects”

 

 

Catalina, Junchen and Piotr have all attended the GRC Animal-Microbe Symbioses meeting in the beautiful Toscany region of Italy, and gave poster presentations, respectively:

    "Genomic similarities and differences among closely related bacterial strains infecting ants, beetles, fish, and whales."

     "The chaos of extremely fragmented symbiotic complexes in a clade of planthoppers"

     "How to track a facultative endosymbiont across multi-species insect communities?"

Lots of new contacts, inspirations, and upcoming collaborations!

Added: 24th June 2023