New preprints! Arun has recently uploaded three of his upcoming papers to BioRxiv, investigating how negative regulation of IMD, Jak/Stat signalling, and damage prevention and repair mechanisms all affect disease tolerance in fruit flies.

Welcome to Phoebe Thornhill who joins our lab as a PhD student funded by the Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health. Phoebe will work on natural genetic variation and immune regulation of pathogen acquisition and spread.

New preprint! Some collaborative work using epidemiological models to understand why Ostreococcus are often susceptible to viruses in the wild when low-cost resistance evolves quickly in the lab. 

New paper! Work led by Tom Ratz and Katy Monteith showing that burying beetle females continue to provide high levels of parental care despite a lethal bacterial infection has been published in Behavioral Ecology.

New paper! Jonti's work dissecting host genetics, sex and mating status as sources of heterogeneity in pathogen shedding and spread has been published in PLOS Pathogens! 

Paper published! Our collaborative work with Lauren White and Meggan Craft exploring how heterogeneity in host behaviour and susceptibility scales up to population-level disease dynamics has been published in Proceedings B.

Welcome to Megan Kutzer, who joins the lab as a postdoc! Megan was previously a postdoc in Sylvia Cremer's lab in Vienna, following a PhD with Sophie Armitage in Berlin.

New paper! Tiina Salminen's comprehensive review of how mitochondrial variation may affect innate immunity is published in Frontiers in Immunology.

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