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Had the pleasure of joining the SymbNET Summer School 2025 on Host-Microbe Symbiosis in Oeiras, Portugal 🌿🧬
A week of great talks, posters, and group projects with amazing PhDs + faculty from all over the world. Our team’s project even got 2nd place out of 7! 🎉New ideas, friendships, and inspiration
August 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
xiaotong.bsky.social
A super belated post... Excited to win the 2nd best poster prize and 2nd best project award selected by students at the SymbNET summer schoo😍l!Learnt a lot of interesting host symbiont research, met many new friends, and enjoyed the beautiful Lisbon as well.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
kpantiukh.bsky.social
just found out you can share your poster on ResearchGate 😁 Do you think that’s a better option than GitHub? #symbNET #poster

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PDF | Poster present the main results from publication: METAGENOME-ASSEMBLED GENOMES FROM A POPULATION-BASED COHORT UNCOVER NOVEL GUT SPECIES AND STRAIN... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
kpantiukh.bsky.social
Winning Best Poster Award is always exciting — but receiving it at the SymbNet Summer School feels truly unbelievable! 🚀


The level of expertise from the faculty was sky-high, and the talent of students made me feel like I need to work more to keep up 😱

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July 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
symbnet.bsky.social
📢 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.
March 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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📢 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.
March 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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📢 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.
March 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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📢 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.
March 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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📢 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.
March 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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📢 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.
March 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The participation in the course does not work in hybrid. But we will try to stream some of the talks as we did in the past: www.youtube.com/@symbnet9728...
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SymbNET is a European network for host-microbe interactions research, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.Coordinated by FCG-IGC (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal)...
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March 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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📢 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.
March 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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📢 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...

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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.
March 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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📢 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.
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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📢 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.
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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📢 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.
March 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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📢 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.
March 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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📢 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.
March 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Follow @symbnet.bsky.social to hear about the speakers of our Symbnet Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses for PhD students - July 2025 Portugal
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📢 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.
March 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
slipakanungo.bsky.social
Summer 2025 at the SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses in Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal!

Hurry up and don’t give a second thought! Registration closes in a week (28/03/2025).

We’ll also have Pastel de Nata together 😉

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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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March 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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📢 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.
March 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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📢 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.
March 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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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March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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📢 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.
March 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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📢 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.
March 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM