Marleny García Lozano
@MarlenyGarciaL1
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PhD student @MPI_Bio | Mutualisms Research Group
Joined January 2019
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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So glad to share my fieldwork experience with @MethodsEcolEvol! Joining efforts to study ants, wasps and bees in the #GalapagosIslands @EspochRio @eebtoronto @DarwinFound @GalapagosPark @BiologyTTU
In our latest blog post María C. Tocora and colleagues relay their field experiences in the Galápagos, the Ecuadorian archipelago where Darwin's observations of finches later inspired his theory of evolution 🐜 Read the post here 👇 https://t.co/130pPU2eVj
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New paper led by @Yadirapga! Even though opossums have kids at 0.5 years, they still have typical male-biased mutation (though not quite as high as humans).
Low mutation rate but high male-bias in the germline of a short-lived opossum https://t.co/Mbc5TDmves
#biorxiv_evobio
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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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Microbial bases of herbivory in beetles Review by Marleny García-Lozano (@MarlenyGarciaL1) & Hassan Salem (@HassanSalem) @MPI_Bio
https://t.co/LuR9Ou2RiV
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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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Are you looking for a postdoctoral researcher position? There is an opening in my lab for a 5 year position to work on microbial interactions in aquatic environments https://t.co/yifoQDop3e Please RT
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Marleny, Hassan and other colleagues' amazing work on the evolutionary dynamics of digestive symbionts of leaf beetles is now online: Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles: Current Biology
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García-Lozano et al. time the acquisition and quantify the adaptive impact of a digestive symbiosis between leaf beetles and Stammera, a bacterium. Compared with their non-symbiotic relatives,...
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And here’s the Tweetorial! Amazing work by @MarlenyGarciaL1 @HassanSalem and colleagues showing a ‘complete story’ of how symbioses allowed beetles to become strict herbivores and diversify. Setting a high bar for symbiosis research. Well deserving of a second retweet! 😉👏
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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I am thrilled to share our work on ants from the #Galapagos! By combining fieldwork and museum specimens, we studied more than 382,000 introduced and endemic ants in the islands. Thanks to @EspochRio, @DarwinFound, @Galapagospark and @BelgianNatural! https://t.co/heklundNep
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Elated to be joining this year’s cohort of EMBO Young Investigators! Proud of the whole lab & thankful for the chance to science w/ some exceptional folks @MPI_Bio.
26 scientists have been selected to join the EMBO Young Investigator Programme @embo_yip, an initiative that supports excellent young group leaders in the early stages of their independent careers https://t.co/kgIaWV3OZe
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Our new paper is out! We found a endosymbiotic Clostridia within the cells of protists in termite guts. Our results indicated that the clostridial endosymbionts are obligately-intracellular parasites like Chlamydia and Rickettsia. https://t.co/pUS9nOoBnD
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👏Congratulations to the winners of this year’s @CRC1182 poster prizes @SymbNET Summer School, and to all students who played a part in enriching our course! 🥇@MarlenyGarciaL1 🥈@DigelLeonid 🥉@ritamelom, @francesspragge1, Anastasiia Barilo 👉 https://t.co/gdwSwIsSVc
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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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Thank you to all the amazing organisers, faculty, students, administration, and sponsors - all listed in the long thread👇, for making the 2-week @SymbNET Summer School on #HostMicrobe Symbioses @IGCiencia a great success! Your support and enthusiasm are truly appreciated.
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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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