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Publication: Symbiotic bacteria enable aphids to utilize plant phloem sap

7 March 2009  A budget analysis conducted by Eylem Gunduz and Angela demonstrates how symbiosis with microorganisms enables phloem-feeding aphids to escape from needing a balanced dietary supply of amino acids.

Publication: The metabolic network of an insect symbiont

21 February 2009   Reconstruction of the metabolic network of the symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola reveals how insects might control nutrient release from their microbial symbionts.

The Lab Move

28 January 2009  We start the move to the new lab!

New lab members

January 2009  Adam Wong and Jean (Hyun Jin Yoon) join the lab this month

Publication: A water channel with osmoregulatory role in the pea aphid gut

19 January 2009    We identify the gene for the gut aquaporin of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum and investigate its role in water cycling

Presentation to Conference

16-18 December 2008 Sophie Bouvaine presented her research to the Cereal PathoSystems Conference in London, UK.

Aphid Day

14 November 2008 Meeting on Aphids held at Cornell University and Boyce Thompson Institute

Tenure for Angela

7 November 2008   We celebrated tenure for Angela with colleagues in the Department