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Microbial Advent Calendar 2k18 – Being its own apothecary

For day 3 of the Microbial Advent Calendar, let's have a look at the Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum). Neither a bee nor a wolf, it is, in fact, a predatory wasp that actually hunts bees. Although the adult does not feed on bees, but on plant nectar, the females hunt bees…

AdrienDecember 4, 2018

Fun

Microbial Advent Calendar 2k18 – Non Mainstream dividing

The second day of the Microbial Advent Calendar and today we have a sneak peak into the incredible world of nematodes associated with bacteria. There is an incredible diversity of host-associated systems in the nematode realm, today we a have a look at Laxus oneistus. This worm looks like, when you…

AdrienDecember 2, 2018

Fun

Microbial Advent Calendar 2k18 – Vibrio fisheri, a squid’s light

Time to start this year’s MicrobialAdventCalendar! So for the next (hopefully) 24 days I’ll post here and, on my blog, an illustration of a host associated microbe with some links to cool stories and twitter folks working on them. I'll make them short and to the point in order to…

AdrienDecember 2, 2018

Fun Traveling Bacteria

[The Traveling Bacteria] The Sushi Factor

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. So we are. We are currently roaming and eating our way through the small narrow streets of Tokyo. Each time we stop at or pass by a restaurant or a small busy street food stall you can always spot the omnipresent Nori…

AdrienJanuary 16, 2018

Fun

Microbial Advent Calendar – 14 Ice Worms

On the planet of Arrakis, in Frank Herbert's novel Dune, giant desert worms roam around the planet leaving the very precious spice behind them. On a scale closer than fiction, earth as its very own the ice worms! And we are going to have a glance at their microbiota in…

AdrienDecember 14, 2017

Fun

Microbial Advent Calendar – 11 Yeti Crabs

For the 11th day of the Microbial Advent Calendar what about a fantastic winter themed monster? Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the mythical, the mysterious, the only one, the YETI crabs... *Cough, Cough* Unlike its (still) elusive homonym, the yeti crab is the informal name of a deep…

AdrienDecember 11, 2017

Announcement

A story of epibionts in deep sea mussels – My first paper published !

My very first paper : "A specific and widespread association between deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels and a novel family of Epsilonproteobacteria" is finally available as an Early View on the Environmental Microbiology Reports website. For the past four years, I have been working with deep sea bathymodiolin mussels. They are one…

AdrienAugust 12, 2016