Lee Henry
@HenryLabSymbio
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Exploring endosymbiosis at Queen Mary University of London. Associate professor. Symbiosis, ecology, evolution, microbiology https://t.co/N3Wk7abWIU
Joined January 2020
New paper alert! Symbionts have allowed insects to colonise novel feeding niches, but how has this influenced diversification? In @NatureEcoEvo we show that symbionts are associated with extreme highs and lows of insect diversification. More below:
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RT @kieranbates20: Join my lab @blizard_inst for a 3 year @BBSRC funded post-doc exploring how glycans shape the skin microbiome and colon…
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@IzazAhm01611301 @MAG_Porras Hi Izaz! We have great MSc programs at QMUL where students can do projects tied to this research. For example, in our biodiversity and conservation, and bioinformatics Masters programmes. More information here
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RT @wasp_venom: Vince and I are currently recruiting grad students for a variety of projects. Please pass on this flier to anyone you think…
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Two Injured ctenophores can fuse into a single organism? Bonkers!
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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:
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Great work by @realBenJen, Tom Richard’s and crew on host control of symbionts.
Excited and proud to share our preprint! A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer! 1/10
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Cool paper on convergent losses of a symbiont in gall forming insects! Nice work by @HansenLab1 Patrick Degnan et al. 🦠🌺
The galls are so nutritious that psyllids that transitioned to galling have lost their nutritional symbionts ! 🤯
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RT @deMendoza_Alex: We are still looking for a postdoctoral candidate, previous experience with Transposable Elements and/or chromatin woul…
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More cool evolving E.coli to be a mutualism work by @fkttkm and Ryuga Sugiyama. 🦠
Ryuga Sugiyama's great experimental work on host range of an artificial symbiotic E. coli and natural Pantoea symbiont both mutualistic to the stinkbug Plautia stali is out! - Unexpectedly, E. coli was more host specific than natural symbiont
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RT @deMendoza_Alex: So its out @GenomeBiology: All you need to know about DNA methylation in annelids🪱! This has b…
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New planthopper phylogeny based on genomes! The fairyland of symbiosis. 🧚
Check out the latest #planthopper tree based on genomic data! #phylogenomics #Auchenorrhyncha #Hemiptera Great collaboration with colleagues in different fields! @jacek_szwedo @symPiotr @LepPhylo @hamid_hrg @EtkaYapar @diecasfranco @AnnaMichalik17
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RT @UliKluemper: Scientists need more time to think. Strong agreement with this little excerpt from Nature. https…
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New pre-print! Defensive symbionts only occur in some insect species, but why? We show that symbiont distributions strongly align with sharing the same parasitoids, highlighting antagonists as key agents shaping symbioses across host species. 🪲 More here
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RT @JELittlefair: Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab @UCLCBER @UCLEast! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air…
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@gabnoc_genomics Nice @gabnoc_genomics ! Lake Louise is wonderful. Hope you’re enjoying the Rockies. 🏔
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Tardigrade microbiome! Nice paper @symPiotr 🌊🐻
Our new article, "Pinpointing the #microbiota of #tardigrades: What is really there?", published by Environmental Microbiology! The characterization of microbiota of these small aquatic animals has been hard, with many sources of bacterial signal. 1/2
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