Ines PONS
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Joined October 2021
🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: https://t.co/AlLC0UrRqK 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: https://t.co/Wy0SnEbEsH
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Thrilled 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! https://t.co/UT9kMTSgNr
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Max Planck Research Group Leader Hassan Salem has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how beetles use symbiotic relationships with microbes to digest plant material and how this...
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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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Some news 🎉 Elated to share that our work will soon be supported by an @ERC_Research Starting Grant! There will be openings to join the lab, so if you are keen to learn how plant pathogens double as insect mutualists, do reach out! @ALIFE_VU @VUamsterdam @VU_Science #ERCStG
📣 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! 📣 494 bright minds awarded €780 million to fund research ideas at the frontiers of science. Find out who, where & why 👉 https://t.co/L6PimhW50v 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @HorizonEU @EUScienceInnov
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Tortoise beetles snuck into the opening plenary of #ICE2024! If you are intrigued about their cool symbioses, be sure not to miss talks by @HassanSalem, @MarlenyGarciaL1, @Ines_Pons5, and a poster by Christiane Emmerich! I will talk about their fungal mutualists on Thursday.
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Thrilled to be in Kyoto w/ the lab & @berasymbionts for ICE ‘24 🐞 Lots of great science to look forward to & old friends to catch up with! Look out for talks by @Ines_Pons5, @MarlenyGarciaL1, and a poster by Christiane Emmerich.
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Parasitism demands the work of specialists. We defined the weird and wonderful secondary metabolism of Escovopsis, fungal parasites of fungus-farming ants. Out today in @mSystemsJ! https://t.co/ILHtrrGLV1
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Super-amazing work by Takanori Nishino, Hiromi Mukai, Minoru Moriyama and other colleagues on a novel insect-microbe symbiosis is now available as preprint Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
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Tympanal organs as “insect ears” have evolved repeatedly. Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female’s hindlegs. Here we report an unexpected discovery that...
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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
https://t.co/kdpndgf96Q
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Excited to share our work today in @CurrentBiology Thankful for a great collaboration 😊
What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification? We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by @MarlenyGarciaL1 & out today in @CurrentBiology! https://t.co/Xm8xK2GgL5 🧵1/n
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What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification? We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by @MarlenyGarciaL1 & out today in @CurrentBiology! https://t.co/Xm8xK2GgL5 🧵1/n
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New Comment by Hassan Salem & Martin Kaltenpoth: The Nagoya Protocol and its implications for microbiology @HassanSalem @Kaltenpoth_Lab #COP28
https://t.co/2Es4dT6q3N
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Nature Microbiology - The Nagoya Protocol was drafted to ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the international use of genetic resources, but the lack of unified...
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Fusarium is causal to many a plant blight. But it is also increasingly found in stable, functionally diverse symbioses with insects. We examine how the fungus balances this dual act in our latest, with @HassanSalem & Shounak Jagdale in @PLOSPathogens! https://t.co/Vtp5H26r3V
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Happy to be part of the amazing @SymbNET PhD Summer School #HostMicrobe Symbioses @IGCiencia. I learned a lot and met great people. Thank you to everyone involved 😊. I'm also thankful to @HassanSalem for his encouraging support. We got a prize 🥳
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Looking for a PhD position on host-microbe interactions? Consider applying to our international graduate program @MPI_Bio: From Molecules to Organisms! My lab is currently recruiting a student as part of our funded @DFG_Public grant to work on insect-microbe symbioses!
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Great talk today from @HassanSalem: 'Beetle-microbe symbioses: Endless forms most functional' Hearing about mechanisms of leaf beetles to house and transmit their bacterial and fungal symbionts, and the consequences of coevolution between microbe and host is just fascinating!
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Beyond happy to share that I will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor at @ALIFE_VU @VUamsterdam this fall! My lab will be recruiting soon, so please reach out if symbiosis, chemical ecology & fungal genomics strike your fancy!
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Thank you to the organizers @mcsymbiont, @KiersToby and @AncestralState for the fantastic and very inspiring conference #EESSymbiosis @embl. Thanks also to @HassanSalem for the great support and encouragement!
Loved every bit of #EESSymbiosis @embl! Thanks to @KiersToby @AncestralState & @mcsymbiont for putting it all together. Here’s our very own @Ines_Pons5 w/ her award sash!
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Calling it a year @MPI_Bio & the lab. Lots to be thankful for, not least the chance to grow & science w/ a stellar crew. Here’s to more of this in 2023!
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The insect egg is a sessile life stage but not a passive one 🥚 So how do eggs sense & respond to their environment? And which nifty adaptations allow them to actively shape it? Our take on life within the chorion, w/ Monika Hilker & @trichogramma74 🐛 https://t.co/Vr4LWGpz9w
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Insect eggs are exposed to a plethora of abiotic and biotic threats. Their survival depends on both an innate developmental program and genetically determined protective traits provided by the...
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