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hassansalem.bsky.social
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biology | ERC Investigator | EMBO Young Investigator | Symbiosis, genomics & development www.mutualisms.net
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Looking for a postdoc on bacterial-insect symbiosis, combining evolution and molecular mechanisms? I'll have one open in my lab starting Sept 2025. If interested contact me (or find me at the GRC on Animal-microbe symbiosis if you'll be there). #SymbioSky

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is already shaping up to be one of the best gatherings I'm co-organising with @michaelraissig.bsky.social - & I think it'll stay that way for a while.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I am very happy to host a Marie Curie Fellow in my lab. Please email me in case you are interested in experimental evolution, evolution of cooperation, bacterial multicellularity, metabolic cross-feeding, or related topics. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Stop for a second and try to imagine this: a heat shock protein relocalizes to the cell surface and mediates dsRNA binding and internalization! Intrigued? Read our newly minted paper in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to all the authors and thanks to reviewers and editor!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is wild. Chromosome distributions into different nuclei! Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Tweeps, please spread the word. We're still looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. Applicant from US welcome? medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Lab mice (domesticated for >100y) have kept gut bacterial strains that codiversified w/ rodents for >25My. Here, authors show genetic drift occured in the lab, leading to loss of microb diversity+more deleterious mutations, impacting microbial fitness in lab vs wt mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted to see our work now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social. A great place for Bostrychia to stake its claim as an emerging red algal model system. Check it out here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

This highlights how a strong mutualistic interaction can promote the diversification of entire clades by influencing their phenotypes, defining their geographic distribution, and ultimately contributing to their evolutionary and ecological success 🧪🧬🐠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Into pathogens that moonlight as symbionts? SymPathy has two postdoc openings to join Aileen’s team 🪲 Amazing science and an awesome lab!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

submitted 31 days ago • 34 comments

Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species? How many cells transmit when a strain is shared? Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable? We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper. 🧵[1/10]

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations to @hassansalem.bsky.social on the #ERC Consolidator Grant! 🎉 The project explores how beetles use symbiotic relationships w/ microbes to digest plant material, & compare this to gene transfer for digestive enzyme acquisition. 🪲tinyurl.com/bdhrdnes Evolutionary insights to come!

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

Working on the life cycle of a seaweed with @borglab.bsky.social and very excited to do something a bit different! :) #SciArt #biology #science

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Elated and honored to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! We’ll explore why beetles lose genes — only to rely on symbionts instead 🪲🦠 Incredibly proud of the team and excited for this project to take off w/ some remarkable beetles! @erc.europa.eu www.bio.mpg.de/466825/news_...

submitted 43 days ago • 21 comments

Happy to share our last study led by @akrao.bsky.social published in @currentbiology.bsky.social, showing how a planktonic host steals and hijacks chloroplast and mitochondrion of a microalga using 3D subcellular imaging. Funded by @moorefound.bsky.social; @erc.europa.eu #Protistsonsky #SymbioSky

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

New preprint with nice detective work by PhD student Khadija Hanga: gain of pOXA MDR plasmid is facilitated by chromosomal mutations affecting OmpF which act synergistically with the plasmid’s carbapenamase to give high level resistance. Led by @mbottery.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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