Lee Henry
@HenryLabSymbio
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Exploring endosymbiosis at Queen Mary University of London. Associate professor. Symbiosis, ecology, evolution, microbiology https://t.co/N3Wk7abWIU
Joined January 2020
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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Amazing work on a super cool defensive symbiosis by @fkttkm Takema and team! 👏
Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! https://t.co/J3y9mLJHuR
#symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug
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Our long-lasting research project on an amazing stinkbug-fungus relationship "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" finally comes out in Science! https://t.co/J3y9mLJHuR
#symbiosis #insect #fungus #stinkbug
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Amazing new species of carnivorous caterpillar discovered!
A rare carnivorous caterpillar, previously unknown to biologists, stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, researchers report in Science. This unique new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian
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Join my lab @blizard_inst for a 3 year @BBSRC funded post-doc exploring how glycans shape the skin microbiome and colonisation resistance in #amphibians!!!!
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⭐️Fully funded PhD in our lab through BBSRC LIDo⭐️ If you are interested in studying how symbionts can be used to block vector borne disease contact us! 🪲🦠 Info and link to apply below (please re-Tweet! 🙏): https://t.co/i8R1KKTRvo
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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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Two Injured ctenophores can fuse into a single organism? Bonkers!
cell.com
Jokura et al. report that two injured Mnemiopsis leidyi individuals are capable of rapidly fusing into a single entity in which some physiological functions are integrated.
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Wonderful review on beetle symbioses by @HassanSalem and @MarlenyGarciaL1, check it out! 🪲
Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this @TrendsMicrobiol article, @MarlenyGarciaL1 & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: https://t.co/KBjwTlUCxz
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Great work by @realBenJen, Tom Richard’s and crew on host control of symbionts.
Excited and proud to share our preprint! A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer! 1/10 https://t.co/6RWrXZ7xkH
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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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We are still looking for a postdoctoral candidate, previous experience with Transposable Elements and/or chromatin would be great, but also other backgrounds like EvoDevo please get in touch, we work on many different systems and topics, new advert here:
We have a 2y postdoc position open in my group. The profile is quite broad, from bioinformatics to molecular biology. If you are interested in giant virus endogenization, EvoDevo, epigenetics and evolution, do apply and gent in touch. Please RT. Details: https://t.co/RXzmujXP1i
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More cool evolving E.coli to be a mutualism work by @fkttkm and Ryuga Sugiyama. 🦠
Ryuga Sugiyama's great experimental work on host range of an artificial symbiotic E. coli and natural Pantoea symbiont both mutualistic to the stinkbug Plautia stali is out! - Unexpectedly, E. coli was more host specific than natural symbiont https://t.co/ztWqhfyg99
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So its out @GenomeBiology: https://t.co/OIzQ8veSgW. All you need to know about DNA methylation in annelids🪱! This has been a great collaboration with the @Chema_MD lab, led by @k_guynes. One of the main findings is that the methylome erodes throughout development and beyond! 1/
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
Background DNA methylation in the form of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) is the most abundant base modification in animals. However, 5mC levels vary widely across taxa. While vertebrate genomes are hyperme...
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New planthopper phylogeny based on genomes! The fairyland of symbiosis. 🧚
Check out the latest #planthopper tree based on genomic data! #phylogenomics #Auchenorrhyncha #Hemiptera
https://t.co/qOnDJMUvrC Great collaboration with colleagues in different fields! @jacek_szwedo @symPiotr @LepPhylo @hamid_hrg @EtkaYapar @diecasfranco @AnnaMichalik17
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Scientists need more time to think. Strong agreement with this little excerpt from Nature. https://t.co/NKincuJUX4
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New pre-print! Defensive symbionts only occur in some insect species, but why? We show that symbiont distributions strongly align with sharing the same parasitoids, highlighting antagonists as key agents shaping symbioses across host species. 🪲 More here https://t.co/7L2MCRgKGN
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Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab @UCLCBER @UCLEast! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air sampling for terrestrial biomonitoring https://t.co/cGjatjrx2X application deadline 19 Aug
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Tardigrade microbiome! Nice paper @symPiotr 🌊🐻
Our new article, "Pinpointing the #microbiota of #tardigrades: What is really there?", published by Environmental Microbiology! The characterization of microbiota of these small aquatic animals has been hard, with many sources of bacterial signal. 1/2
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