We have broad interests in microbial-host interactions that have relevance to basic biology and applied biomedicine at multiple biological levels (i.e., genetic, ecological, evolutionary, and genomic), including the:
Molecular evolution and applications of mobile elements in bacteria
Role of bacterial symbionts in eukaryotic speciation
Genetics of innate immunity to intracellular bacteria
Symbiotic control of human diseases
y From left to right: John, Victor, Sarah, Meghan, Bethany, Seth, John, Rob, and Kristin
News & Events
February 2010 - Bordenstein Lab Nasonia photo takes the cover of Insect Molecular Biology!
January 2010 - New article published in Trends in Microbiology. Phage WO of Wolbachia: lambda of the endosymbiont world. Pubmed Link
January 2010 - Press release on Nasonia genome paper.
January 2010 - New article published in Science.
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January 2010 - Seth heads to Japan to speak at two symbiosis conferences sponsored by the National Institute for Basic Biology and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
November 2009 - New article published in Molecular Biology and Evolution - Lateral phage transfer in obligate intracellular bacteria (Wolbachia): Verification from natural populations. Pubmed Link
October 2009 - Rob Brucker wins two awards! He took the Best Poster Award at the Department Retreat and the Best Speaker Award at the Tennessee Entomological Society Meeting. Congrats Rob!
June 2009 - Kristin Jernigan lands a postdoc fellowship off the Medical Center's Reproductive Biology Training Grant. Congrats Kristin!
