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Lee Henry
@henrylabsymbio.bsky.social
Exploring endosymbiosis at Queen Mary University of London. Associate professor. Symbiosis, ecology, evolution, microbiology http://henry-lab.co.uk
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Recent publication in @Ecology_Letters investigating how selection from enemies shapes defensive symbioses in nature. Big ups to Taoping Wu and crew. Check it out! 🦠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow - Honeybee Bacteriophages and Advanced Biotechnology - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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The University of Vienna awards at least 20 four-year and full-time (40h/week) postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, and economics.
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨

The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists

Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

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#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
January 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Happy New Year! 🎉 New preprint out now: Defensive symbionts don’t protect against all enemies equally they are often highly specific. We show that toxin type drives which parasitoid species are killed, and reveal some truly wild new toxins! Read below.
Phage toxin variants are linked to protection specificity in a defensive symbiont
Insects often depend on symbiotic bacteria for protection, yet the mechanisms by which these microbes target specific natural enemies remain poorly understood. In aphids, different strains of the facu...
www.biorxiv.org
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Three #postdoc positions available in my lab @unibz.bsky.social focusing on #genomics of #eriosoma #aphids #psyllids and #phytoplasma please repost
January 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Recent publication in @Ecology_Letters investigating how selection from enemies shapes defensive symbioses in nature. Big ups to Taoping Wu and crew. Check it out! 🦠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Finally made the switch....
To kick things off, here are a couple papers from the lab 🐜🦋https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02058-0
Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects rely on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and defence. Analysing a large dataset of microbe–insect symbioses, the authors show that symbiosis evolved in response to nutrient deficiencies but it...
www.nature.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM