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PhD studentship to characterise aphid immune evolution. Lots to uncover in an insect group with major ecological & economic impact. Aphid systemic immunity is a black box. The interested PhD candidate will both provide one of the first detailed descriptions of aphid immunity, but also uncover principles of immune evolution.

Deadline July 29th at #UoExeter
Email or DM for details🐘 📩
m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk

#Genomics #Aphid #Genetics #Immunity #Evolution #Drosophila


A rare #nature paper with negative results: "No evidence for magnetic field effects on the behaviour of Drosophila"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06397-7 Lots of hard work over a span of six years, large sample size (= number of fruitflies) and rigorous #stats Debunking science is hard work - this paper is very well done. #science #fruitflies #drosophila


Models and their quirks:

"Here Muller was exceptionally lucky, because the somatic pairing of homologous chromosomes along their entire length—readily seen in #Drosophila—is not a general feature of eukaryotes."

https://academic.oup.com/genetics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyad015/7058543?searchresult=1


📰 "Hunting Drosophila viruses from wild populations: A novel isolation approach and characterisation of viruses"
by 🔬 Gaspar Bruner-Montero, Carlos M Luque, Cássia Siqueira Cesar, Shuai Dominique Ding, Jonathan P Day, Francis Michael Jiggins
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36996192/ #Drosophila


We're hiring a postdoc to study host-microbe interactions! Our integrative research program studies how the world's most common bacterial endosymbiont has become so successful. Much of it is to do with the bacteria's ability to make its host's sex lives all about them. If you think this sounds interesting, consider applying! Details are here: https://shropshirelab.com/job/postdoctoral-scholar-of-host-microbe-interactions/.
@jobsecoevo #ScienceJobs #PostdocJob #EcoEvo #CellBiology #Genetics #Symbiosis #Bacteria #Insects #Wolbachia #Drosophila


Happy to announce this #preprint , the culmination of last 10 years. 🥳

We find that #antimicrobialpeptides are evolved to control specific #microbiome #bacteria. This example is a textbook case of host #immune #evolution being shaped by the microbiome 🦠 which depends on host #ecology.

Thanks for comments! Bit of an experiment: we are posting pre-submit to get feedback 🙂.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521774v2.full
#immunity #Drosophila #EvolutionaryBiology #inflammation #NFkB

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