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Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social · Jul 14

Outreach session on Gut Microbiota and Health for medical professionals and the general public. This Thursday, 17th July, 5.30-7pm at Hospital da Luz. With T. Bosch (Kiel Univ), K. Xavier (GIMM), M. Blaser (Rutgers Univ). Free entry. Details and registration at gimm.idloom.events/microbiota-i...

Poster of the outreach event titled Microbiota in Health and disease at Hospital da Luz Auditorium. Programme: Welcome reception

Thomas Bosch, University of Kiel, Germany.
“Animal models in biomedical holobiont research”

Karina Xavier, Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Portugal
"Microbiota protection against gut pathogens”

Martin Blaser, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
“Microbiome and malignancy”

Panel discussion

free entry, registration required

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Luis Teixeira @lmvteixeira.bsky.social · Mar 28

Last day for applications

symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 17

Registrations are open for the SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025. 6-19 July 2025 in Oeiras, Portugal.

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PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Karina: karinaxavierlab.weebly.com/people-and-p...

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Karina Xavier is a Principal Investigator at GIMM. She studies interspecies cell-to-cell communication in bacteria and its role in beneficial and hostile interactions in multispecies bacterial communities. Her work includes elucidation of the molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial quorum sensing and their role in shaping gut microbiota composition.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Ned: www.glowingsquid.org/people_profi...

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Ned Ruby is a Faculty Associate at the California Institute for Technology. He studies the role of bacterial behavior and physiology in the beneficial colonization of host tissues. He uses the natural squid-vibrio model of symbiosis to address how the partners communicate with each other at the molecular level.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Luís: fm.ucp.pt/pt-pt/pessoa...

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Luis Teixeira is a Principal Investigator at CBR. His lab studies host-microbe symbioses using Drosophila as a model system. He is interested not only in how viruses, Wolbachia and gut microbiota interact with flies but also how these microbes influence each other.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Spencer: mcb.uconn.edu/person/spenc...

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Spencer Nyholm is a Professor at UCONN. His lab works on the mechanisms by which animal hosts and microbial symbionts communicate with an emphasis on how components of the innate immune system may influence these interactions.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Howard: web.biosci.utexas.edu/ochman

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Howard Ochman is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. He is interested in the evolution and adaptation of microbial genomes and how genome structure affects bacterial lifestyle. He is also interested in co-evolution of microbiota bacteria with primate hosts, including humans.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Laila: orcid.org/0000-0001-80...

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Laila Partida-Martinez is the director and principal investigator at Cinvestav-Irapuato. She is interested in fungal-bacterial interactions, plant-microbe interactions, microbial ecology and natural products produced by microorganisms.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Sean: www.york.ac.uk/biology/peop...

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Sean Meaden is a BBSRC Discovery Fellow. His work is focused on the interactions between bacteria and their viruses, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape such interactions.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Nancy: web.biosci.utexas.edu/moran/nancym...

@nancy-moran.bsky.social

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Nancy Moran is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the evolution of symbiosis between multicellular hosts and microbes. Her work has a strong emphasis on genome evolution of bacterial symbionts of insects.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Margaret: www.glowingsquid.org/people_mm.php

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Margaret McFall-Ngai is a faculty associate at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Her research focuses on understanding host responses to interactions with beneficial microbes. Using the squid-vibrio model, she explores this question at spatial, molecular and mechanistic levels.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Waldan: www.kwonglab.com/people

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Waldan Kwong is a Principal Investigator at GIMM. His research focuses on the ecology, evolution, and function of microorganisms. To understand the diverse ways microorganisms have evolved to interact and thrive in their environments, he uses a multitude of approaches, from classical microbiology to high-throughput genomics and animal models, such as social bees and corals.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Rob: knightlab.ucsd.edu

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Rob Knight is a Professor at UCSD. Rob studies evolution of the composition of metabolites, genomes, and communities in different ecosystems, including the complex microbial ecosystems of the human body. He has developed main computational and experimental techniques used worldwide to study these processes.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Karen: molbio.uoregon.edu/guillemin/

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Karen Guillemin is a Professor at the University of Oregon. Her working interests are host-microbe systems in development and disease. Karen pioneered the use of zebrafish to study host-microbe interactions, including the influence of the gut microbiome on development, metabolism, and immunity.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Maria Gloria: sites.rutgers.edu/mgdblab/

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Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello is a Professor of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers University. She studies the development of gut microbiota in the early life of mammalian hosts, including humans, and is also interested in how human populations' lifestyle and diet shape their microbiota.

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Mar 22

Follow @symbnet.bsky.social to hear about the speakers of our Symbnet Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses for PhD students - July 2025 Portugal

symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 19

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j...

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Jewelna Akorli is a Principal Investigator and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow at the University of Ghana. Her work centers on mosquito-associated endosymbionts and variations in vector competence in natural mosquito populations.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Ilana: gimm.pt/lab/ilana-ga...

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Ilana Gabanyi is a principal investigator at GIMM. Her studies focus on the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the direct interactions between gut-bacterial signals and brain neurons.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Takema: bpri.aist.go.jp/en/staff/fuk...

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Takema Fukatsu is a Prime Senior Researcher at the Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST. He uses experimental evolutionary approaches to study associated mechanisms and functions of microbial symbioses in insects.

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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · Mar 21

Very much looking forward to joining this summer school on host-microbe interactions again - so valuable meeting such great students at this course!

symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Nicole: www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nicole-Du...

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Nicole Dubilier heads the Symbiosis Department, as a Director at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, and is a professor at the University of Bremen. Her research has provided a critical contribution to marine microbiology and ecology by showing how wide-spread symbioses between marine invertebrates and bacteria are.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Nicole: www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nicole-Du...

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Mar 20

Don't miss the deadline (1st April) for registering to the New Microbiology Lecture Course in Spetses

Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Dec 16

You want to learn about microbiology from a fantastic lineup of speakers on a beautiful Greek island? PhD students apply now for the @EMBO | @FEBSnews Lecture Course The New Microbiology!
Registration: 1 Apr 2025
Course: 03 – 11 Sep 2025 | Spetses, Greece
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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 20

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Thomas: www.bosch-lab.de

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Thomas Bosch is Senior Professor of Zoology at the University of Kiel, Germany. He is an evolutionary developmental biologist and has been working for many years on the evolution of the immune system, in particular the role of microorganisms in the evolution and development of animals and humans. In 2016 he founded the Collaborative Research Center 1182 “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms” at Kiel University. He uses Hydra as a model system to understand the evolution of host-microbe interactions.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 20

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Martin: cabm.rutgers.edu/person/marti...

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Martin Blaser serves as the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and as Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University. His current research interest focuses on the role of the human microbiome in early life development and the mechanisms of diseases.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 19

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j...

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Mar 11

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

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