Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi - Nature A study presents an approach to establish and track a new endosymbiotic partnership by implanting bacteria in a non-host fungus and shows that stable inheritance of the implanted bacteria is possible ...

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership.

Evolution, fast-forwarded.

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This position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology awards 2025 Fleming Fellowship | Cornell Chronicle For research excellence into how living structures recover and preserve order in morphology amid constant disruption, postdoctoral scientist Lanxi Hu has been awarded the Weill Institute for Cell and ...

👏 Congrats to postdoc Lanxi Hu, member of @roederlab.bsky.social, for being selected as the 2025 Weill Institute Fleming Fellowship recipient, for her research on how plant tissues keep their shape under stress and how those insights inspire adaptive design. 🌱 🧑‍🔬 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Just emailed them and they do accept plant RNA, if you are ok with just getting the raw data and work on the analysis your self 😊

Exact same reaction here!