>> Together with Felipe Kauai, we wanted to better understand how Wolbachia infection persists upon loss of CI in haplodiploid hosts. In our study, we focused on both CI loss through the evolution of host suppression and through the dysfunction of cif operons. Please go HERE for the article!

>> Ernesto Villacis‐Perez visited our lab and sampled several Tetranychus populations in the dunes of West Flanders.

>> Gerben Debruyn started his post-doc project in our lab! He will start to unravel how phasmid eggs interact with parasitoids and symbionts.

>> Margarita, Emma, and Siebe also gave their first presentations at ESEB2025!