Jerry Maeda
@gpmaeda
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Graduate student at UT Austin. Moran Lab. 🏳️🌈
Joined June 2011
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!
Intracellular endosymbiont is capable of axenic culture and can be stably inherited across host generations. #mBio @gpmaeda @NancyMoran15
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It turns out this symbiotic bacterium highly expresses a horizontally acquired NRPS operon, that results in production of a small molecule with antifungal properties. (3/3) (the whole story is a bit more complicated): https://t.co/JwdQB7zyQs
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Insects frequently form associations with maternally transmitted symbiotic bacteria. This transmission mode ensures that symbiont-conferred effects...
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Very excited to share the results of my second dissertation chapter - on the molecular mechanism of antifungal defense conferred by the aphid endosymbiont, Fukatsuia symbiotica! (2/3)
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How do insects fend off fungal pathogens, like cordyceps? Some aphids partner with symbiotic bacteria that provide protective effects, although how this actually works has been largely unknown... (1/3)
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A few days left to apply. We have an additional postdoc position opened to study #phytoplasma vector #insects all information about this position can be found here https://t.co/NOPZQQUFbt Please RT.
unibz.it
Competence Center "Plant health": Selection procedure for 1 fixed-time research assistant contract/s for collaboration at research activity in the acad. discipline AGRI-05/A (General and applied...
We are looking for a #postdoc to work on our project “Dynamics of #symbiont #evolution across the #psyllid tree of life“ in collaboration with @Kaltenpoth_Lab please RT.
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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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Axenic cultivation of vertically transmitted bacteria is pretty uncommon… These results have some fun implications for what experimental approaches can be applied that haven’t been possible in this system until now!
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*First Amendment when it's convenient
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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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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
biorxiv.org
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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Fun! I think these are the lines that I’ve taken in Austin: 1 3 5 7 10 19 (RIP) 20 30 (before/after it fused with 19) 661 670 671 672 801 803 Red Line You can probably guess what parts of town I’ve lived in 😅
All of the @CapMetroATX Routes I've ridden 👀 1 2 4 5 7 10 20 30 337 670 801 803 Red Line
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Applications for Project Manager of our training programs by @MooreFound entitled “Promoting PhD training on Host-Microbe Symbioses” (Grant GBMF11550); https://t.co/vYkR30vJC8. This includes our PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Apply by Feb05 https://t.co/GKu8xhjb56
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Exciting news! I am joining @tamuentomology as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2024! Seeking motivated M.S. and Ph.D. students interested in 🐝 gut microbiomes and their response to environmental stressors. Please RT!
Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Entomology? @tamuentomology is pleased to offer travel grants to prospective Ph.D. students interested in our program! 🪲🐛 See the link for more information on how to apply: https://t.co/eaU7QVSUNm
#TAMUBugs
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How could I forget them? 🥺
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We start 2024 by inviting you to join us in Algarve, Portugal, on June 10-13, at the @SymbNET International Conference on #HostMicrobe Symbiosis. Save the date 🗓️and stay tuned for more details coming soon! 🎉HAPPY 2024! https://t.co/lUNq6ld5rz
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Applications are open for the Microbial Friends & Foes REU! Please share with your undergrads looking for research experience. Open to US citizens, no prior experience necessary. Apply at https://t.co/lSEGKSKWkI by February 1. @cihmid @CornellMicrobio
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Grateful for the opportunity to write this review with Professor Nancy Moran about the current knowledge on the honeybee gut microbiota! Check it out in @NatureRevMicro: https://t.co/Aq7FNU7PuB
#Microbiome #HoneybeeHealth
nature.com
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Motta and Moran explore recent research investigating the role of the gut microbiota in honeybee biology and health, as well as the environmental...
🐝 The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease https://t.co/AwQwnQHVeY Motta and Moran discuss how the gut microbiota influences honeybee biology and health, and explore environmental factors that can disrupt it and strategies for restoration. @ErickMotta19
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