INSECT SYMBIOSIS ECOLOGY and EVOLUTION (ISEE-lab)
Host-symbiont interactions and insect communities provide ideal models for investigating diverse evolutionary and ecological processes.
At the ISEE lab, we try to explain the observed variations in prevalence and penetrance of a Wolbachia infection in insect populations. In particular, we investigate how symbiotic micro-organisms may influence insect communities and food-webs, and how the diverse interactions between species of insect communities may facilitate the horizontal transfer of their endosymbionts.
News from the Lab
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Grants and Awards:
2020
HiLIFE BioResilience Seed Grant , The University of Helsinki, Finland
2019
Academy of Finland Research Fellowship, The University of Helsinki, Finland
FORMAS grant for early career researcher, Lund University, Sweden (Rejected)
Conferences:
2020
Weekly webinar on symbiosis. Talk by A. Duplouy on lateral gene transfer between Wolbachia and Lepidoptera
Publications:
2020
Duplouy A, Minard G, and Saastamoinen M (PrePrint) The gut bacterial community affects immunity but not metabolism in a specialist herbivorous butterfly. ResearchSquare doi:10.21203/rs.2.21629/v1. pdf