Graduate student at UT Austin. Moran Lab. 🏳️🌈
Joined June 2011
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16 May 2024
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!
16 May 2024
Intracellular endosymbiont is capable of axenic culture and can be stably inherited across host generations. #mBio @gpmaeda @NancyMoran15 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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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...
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30 Jun 2025
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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30 Jun 2025
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):
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Jerry Maeda retweeted
3 Jan 2025
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 unibz.it/en/home/position-ca… Please RT.
20 Dec 2024
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. unibz.it/en/home/position-ca…
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10 Sep 2024
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.
9 Sep 2024
The galls are so nutritious that psyllids that transitioned to galling have lost their nutritional symbionts ! 🤯academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
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16 May 2024
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!
16 May 2024
Intracellular endosymbiont is capable of axenic culture and can be stably inherited across host generations. #mBio @gpmaeda @NancyMoran15 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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16 May 2024
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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24 Apr 2024
*First Amendment when it's convenient
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19 Apr 2024
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
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26 Mar 2024
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/content/10.1101/…
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17 Feb 2024
Fun! I think these are the lines that I’ve taken in Austin:
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You can probably guess what parts of town I’ve lived in 😅
13 Feb 2024
All of the @CapMetroATX Routes I've ridden 👀
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Jerry Maeda retweeted
21 Jan 2024
Applications for Project Manager of our training programs by @MooreFound entitled “Promoting PhD training on Host-Microbe Symbioses” (Grant GBMF11550); doi.org/10.37807/GBMF11550. This includes our PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Apply by Feb05 cdn.gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/wp…
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24 Oct 2023
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!
23 Oct 2023
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: tx.ag/ENTOGradRecruiting
#TAMUBugs
ALT A student organization within Texas A&M University, Department of Entomology and some of it's members.
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6 Jan 2024
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!
bit.ly/3v1Zcmm
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1 Dec 2023
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 cihmid.cornell.edu/academics… by February 1. @cihmid @CornellMicrobio
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11 Dec 2023
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: go.nature.com/3TbBY7s #Microbiome #HoneybeeHealth
5 Dec 2023
🐝 The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease
go.nature.com/3TbBY7s
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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9 Dec 2023
First preprint of my Phd work is available online!
Intracellular defensive symbiont is culturable and capable of transovarial, vertical transmission biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Here’s a quick preview:
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9 Dec 2023
If that sounds cool to you, the pre-print available online now ✨
It was great working on this with talented undergrads Mary Kate and Aadhunik! Major thanks to the UT microscopy core and @lailaephillips!
Super grateful for the support of my PI, Dr. Nancy Moran.
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