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Allison Hansen (PI); Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside; Entomology; insect symbiosis, evolutionary genomics. comments are my own.
Riverside, CA
Joined January 2018
Fun collaboration with Diana Percy and Patrick Degnan showing rapid loss (<1M) of nutritional symbionts in Hawaiian psyllids is associated with galling behavior. All psyllids (free-living, open gall, closed gall) radiated on the same host plant species over ~5MY.
The galls are so nutritious that psyllids that transitioned to galling have lost their nutritional symbionts ! 🤯 https://t.co/7QPuPxPcVi
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NEW PAPER! What explains associations with defensive symbionts? In @Ecology_Letters we show symbiont occurrences align with sharing the same parasitoids, but not plants, highlighting enemies as key selective agents shaping symbioses in nature🦠 https://t.co/kHgCzko1CW
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Vince and I are currently recruiting grad students for a variety of projects. Please pass on this flier to anyone you think would be interested!
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Cool paper on convergent losses of a symbiont in gall forming insects! Nice work by @HansenLab1 Patrick Degnan et al. 🦠🌺
The galls are so nutritious that psyllids that transitioned to galling have lost their nutritional symbionts ! 🤯 https://t.co/7QPuPxPcVi
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Excited to learn our non-transgenic canker-resistant citrus generated by crispr genome editing exempted by EPA, by APHIS, for use by growers! They are the 1st to receive EPA exemption for gene-edited plants! ThanksNIFA funding!Thanks@usda_nifa @EPA@USDA_APHIS
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Super cool study culturing an important secondary symbiont of aphids by @gpmaeda
My first dissertation chapter is out in mBio! We cultured a vertically transmitted endosymbiont, sequenced its genome, and showed that it is stably inherited across generation when injected into new hosts!
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Beautiful (both visually and scientifically) research by @thyreodon testing the role of chance in shaping animal-microbe symbioses.
Study of #SquashBug colonization by #bacterial #symbionts shows that heterogeneity & strain diversity in symbiotic microbial communities, within- & between-host, can be explained by stochastic colonization @thyreodon @NicoleGerardo @nicvega1 #PLOSBiology
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Please share! Two NSF postdocs available starting this summer to research the evolution of insect microbe interactions in sunny Southern California. Competitive salary and benefits. See link for more details and contact information **RNA evolution https://t.co/rQhO39cwpN
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Please share! Two NSF postdocs available starting this summer to research the evolution of insect microbe interactions in sunny Southern California. Competitive salary and benefits. See link for more details and contact information **RNA evolution https://t.co/rQhO39cwpN
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We at #IUMicro are looking to bring in leaders in the field of #microbiomes and #hostmicrobe interaction. Are you an established investigator looking to move to a collaborative, supportive environment? Check us out! #ASMicrobe
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Engineered gut symbiont inhibits microsporidian parasite and improves honey bee survival | PNAS
pnas.org
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are critical agricultural pollinators as well as model organisms for research on development, behavior, memory, and lea...
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Congrats to @kwak_younghwan our labs newly minted PhD. She will start a postdoc with Gordon Bennett soon continuing on the evolution of insect symbiosis. Good luck!!
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Excellent opportunity to do cool research.
A postdoc position is open in my lab! We are using ecological principles to investigate coexistence in aquatic microbial communities. See the posting for more information and to apply: https://t.co/Bm6IyQloAw. Please share!
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New paper alert! Symbionts have allowed insects to colonise novel feeding niches, but how has this influenced diversification? In @NatureEcoEvo we show that symbionts are associated with extreme highs and lows of insect diversification. More below: https://t.co/JMTVwx7cvc
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Exciting news! Our undergrad Jacob and former grad Dohyup published a paper on comparative transcriptomics of obligate insect-microbe mutualisms. Discover the findings on key aphid homologs crucial for nutritional mutualism and lineage-specific genes at https://t.co/GDsNSqONeG.
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We're hiring Laboratory Assistants for the 2023 field season!! We have multiple positions open in our lab at the Kearney Ag Center (near Fresno) as well as on the UC Riverside campus. Feel free to reach out directly if you have any questions!
treecrops.ucr.edu
Recruiting Lab Assistants - Field Season 2025
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Are you interested in investigating the microbiome of wild insect populations? Changes through time and/or space? I am hiring a new postdoc - please apply or RT! #ISEE #microbiota #symbiosis
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Post-Doctoral Research in Microbiome Research
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Postdoctoral position available at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland! We are looking for a Postdoc to study factors and processes shaping the variability of insect microbiota. Please RT #insects #symbiosis
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