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The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Join us Wednesday, 29th April, at 4pm WEST (Lisbon time), for two Symbiosis Alumni Seminars by @omaistrenko.bsky.social and @pawley.bsky.social. Zoom link upon free registration at gimm.idloom.events/symbnet_semi... @symbnet.bsky.social, @moorefound.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social, ECODIM

Poster for seminar by Oleksandr Maistrenko with title "Consequences of symbiosis on genome evolution in prokaryotes across different habitats"

Poster for seminar by Jacob Pawley with title "Exploring foundations of animal host-microbe interactions in a freshwater sponge"

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Bailey Crowley @baileycrowley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happening this Wednesday!

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Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Outreach session on Gut Microbiota and Health for medical professionals and the general public. This Thursday, 17th July, 5.30-7pm at Hospital da Luz. With T. Bosch (Kiel Univ), K. Xavier (GIMM), M. Blaser (Rutgers Univ). Free entry. Details and registration at gimm.idloom.events/microbiota-i...

Poster of the outreach event titled Microbiota in Health and disease at Hospital da Luz Auditorium. Programme: Welcome reception

Thomas Bosch, University of Kiel, Germany.
“Animal models in biomedical holobiont research”

Karina Xavier, Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Portugal
"Microbiota protection against gut pathogens”

Martin Blaser, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
“Microbiome and malignancy”

Panel discussion

free entry, registration required

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Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Last day for applications

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Karina: karinaxavierlab.weebly.com/people-and-p... @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Karina Xavier is a Principal Investigator at GIMM. She studies interspecies cell-to-cell communication in bacteria and its role in beneficial and hostile interactions in multispecies bacterial communities. Her work includes elucidation of the molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial quorum sensing and their role in shaping gut microbiota composition.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Luís: fm.ucp.pt/pt-pt/pessoa... @lmvteixeira.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Luis Teixeira is a Principal Investigator at CBR. His lab studies host-microbe symbioses using Drosophila as a model system. He is interested not only in how viruses, Wolbachia and gut microbiota interact with flies but also how these microbes influence each other.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Ned: www.glowingsquid.org/people_profi... Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Ned Ruby is a Faculty Associate at the California Institute for Technology. He studies the role of bacterial behavior and physiology in the beneficial colonization of host tissues. He uses the natural squid-vibrio model of symbiosis to address how the partners communicate with each other at the molecular level.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Laila: orcid.org/0000-0001-80... Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Laila Partida-Martinez is the director and principal investigator at Cinvestav-Irapuato. She is interested in fungal-bacterial interactions, plant-microbe interactions, microbial ecology and natural products produced by microorganisms.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Howard: web.biosci.utexas.edu/ochman Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Howard Ochman is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. He is interested in the evolution and adaptation of microbial genomes and how genome structure affects bacterial lifestyle. He is also interested in co-evolution of microbiota bacteria with primate hosts, including humans.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Spencer: mcb.uconn.edu/person/spenc... Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Spencer Nyholm is a Professor at UCONN. His lab works on the mechanisms by which animal hosts and microbial symbionts communicate with an emphasis on how components of the innate immune system may influence these interactions.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Sean: www.york.ac.uk/biology/peop... @seanmeaden.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Sean Meaden is a BBSRC Discovery Fellow. His work is focused on the interactions between bacteria and their viruses, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape such interactions.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Nancy: web.biosci.utexas.edu/moran/nancym... @nancy-moran.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Nancy Moran is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the evolution of symbiosis between multicellular hosts and microbes. Her work has a strong emphasis on genome evolution of bacterial symbionts of insects.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Margaret: www.glowingsquid.org/people_mm.php Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Margaret McFall-Ngai is a faculty associate at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Her research focuses on understanding host responses to interactions with beneficial microbes. Using the squid-vibrio model, she explores this question at spatial, molecular and mechanistic levels.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Waldan: www.kwonglab.com/people Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Waldan Kwong is a Principal Investigator at GIMM. His research focuses on the ecology, evolution, and function of microorganisms. To understand the diverse ways microorganisms have evolved to interact and thrive in their environments, he uses a multitude of approaches, from classical microbiology to high-throughput genomics and animal models, such as social bees and corals.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Rob: knightlab.ucsd.edu Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Rob Knight is a Professor at UCSD. Rob studies evolution of the composition of metabolites, genomes, and communities in different ecosystems, including the complex microbial ecosystems of the human body. He has developed main computational and experimental techniques used worldwide to study these processes.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Karen: molbio.uoregon.edu/guillemin/ Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Karen Guillemin is a Professor at the University of Oregon. Her working interests are host-microbe systems in development and disease. Karen pioneered the use of zebrafish to study host-microbe interactions, including the influence of the gut microbiome on development, metabolism, and immunity.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Maria Gloria: sites.rutgers.edu/mgdblab/ Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello is a Professor of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers University. She studies the development of gut microbiota in the early life of mammalian hosts, including humans, and is also interested in how human populations' lifestyle and diet shape their microbiota.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Ilana: gimm.pt/lab/ilana-ga... Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Ilana Gabanyi is a principal investigator at GIMM. Her studies focus on the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the direct interactions between gut-bacterial signals and brain neurons.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Takema: bpri.aist.go.jp/en/staff/fuk... @fkttkm.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Takema Fukatsu is a Prime Senior Researcher at the Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST. He uses experimental evolutionary approaches to study associated mechanisms and functions of microbial symbioses in insects.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Nicole: www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nicole-Du... Registrations until 28th March. @nicoledubilier.bsky.social #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Nicole Dubilier heads the Symbiosis Department, as a Director at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, and is a professor at the University of Bremen. Her research has provided a critical contribution to marine microbiology and ecology by showing how wide-spread symbioses between marine invertebrates and bacteria are.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Thomas: www.bosch-lab.de @crc1182.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Thomas Bosch is Senior Professor of Zoology at the University of Kiel, Germany. He is an evolutionary developmental biologist and has been working for many years on the evolution of the immune system, in particular the role of microorganisms in the evolution and development of animals and humans. In 2016 he founded the Collaborative Research Center 1182 “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms” at Kiel University. He uses Hydra as a model system to understand the evolution of host-microbe interactions.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Martin: cabm.rutgers.edu/person/marti... Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Martin Blaser serves as the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and as Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University. His current research interest focuses on the role of the human microbiome in early life development and the mechanisms of diseases.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j... #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Jewelna Akorli is a Principal Investigator and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow at the University of Ghana. Her work centers on mosquito-associated endosymbionts and variations in vector competence in natural mosquito populations.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Aileen: www.berasateguilab.com/people

Aileen Berasategui - Molecular and Chemical Ecology of Symbiotic Interactions. Aileen Berasategui is an Assistant professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the chemical ecology and evolution of insect-microbe symbioses, currently focusing on the interaction between fungi, insects, and their host plant.

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Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

.K. Guillemin, R. Knight, W. Kwong, M. McFall-Ngai, @nancy-moran.bsky.social, @seanmeaden.bsky.social, S. Nyholm, H. Ochman, L. Partida-Martinez, N. Ruby, @lmvteixeira.bsky.social, @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social 2/2

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