Many animals rely on beneficial microbes for nutrition, defence, or reproduction. In this project, the student will explore an exciting new dimension of these relationships:

Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.

Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.

Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.

Obligate host-associated bacteria with reduced genomes, such as phytoplasmas, face strong evolutionary constraints, including metabolic dependence on hosts, limited horizontal gene transfer (HGT), and...

In an age of growing tension between north and south, one ordinary orange butterfly flutters freely across continents, unbothered by border…

Farmers fear the rise in violent encounters with illegal hare coursers.

Rust fungi are pathogens that impact plants of environmental, agricultural, cultural, and economic importance. Their mechanisms of pathogenicity are not well-understood but are likely governed by effe...

Gavi is an international organisation created in 2000 to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world's poorest countries.