Aktualności - Zespół Ewolucji Symbioz
group news
It's offcially summer!
As a team we are trying to spend some time together outside the university walls. In June, to celebrate summer, together with our friends and families we organized a barbecue. It was really great to be outside, lying on a blanket, playing badminton. We definitely plan to do it again! And again! And... again!
publications
New preprint on bioRxiv - alternative transmission patterns in independently acquired nutritional co-symbionts of Dictyopharidae planthoppers
Our preprint describing the diversity, functions, and particularly alternative mechanisms of vertical transmission of nutritional symbionts in a family of planthoppers is now online!
research news
Image taken by Piotr is on the cover of new Applied and Environmental Microbiology!
The cover image of the latest issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology is taken by Piotr. The image presents the localization of microbial community within the midgut (upper left) and hindgut (lower half) of the turtle ant (Cephalotes sp.) by fluorescent in situ hybridization.
research news
The power of small!
We are happy to inform you that during our research we will include Oxford Nanopore Technology. Our MinION Mk 1C has just arrived!
research news
Greenland, here we come!
Recently, Piotr's project entitled "Insect microbiome diversity and dynamics in the High Arctic" (INMAR) has been granted INTERACT Transnational Access to the Zackenberg Research Station (Greenland/Denmark)!