Two articles were published during the first year of the project, and early termination of the funding:
About the diversity of Wolbachia strains in endemic Malagasi dung beetles, and their implication in species divergence in this species rich clade.
1) Miraldo A, and Duplouy A (2019) High Wolbachia strain diversity in a clade of dung beetles endemic to Madagascar. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:157.
About the CI phenotype induced by Wolbachia in many insect species, the genetic basis of the phenotype and the potential processes involved in the induction of the phenotype:
2) Shropshire JD, Leigh B, Bordenstein SR, Duplouy A, Riegler M, Brownlie JC, and Bordenstein SR (2019) Models and nomenclature for cytoplasmic incompatibility: caution over premature conclusions - A response to Beckmann et al. 2019. Trends in Genetics.
One article was submitted and can be found open access as a preprint in BioRxiv:
About the effect of a wolbachia strain on teh behavior of its parasitoid wasp host:
3) Abroon P, Ashori A, Duplouy A, and Kishani Farahani H (PrePrint) Wolbachia manipulates host pre-imaginal learning in a parasitoid wasp. BioRxiv doi:10.1101/825455.
Four additional articles are in preparation for submission:
4) About horizontal transfer of Wolbachia strains between 20 species of African butterflies
5) About the Lateral gene transfer of Wolbachia DNA into its host genome
6) About the effect of the Microbiota on the life-history of an insect model organism
7) About the Biogeography of a Wolbachia strain in a European species of damselfly (in collaboration with Prof. Erik Svensson for the Evolutionary Biology unit at Lund University)
Additionally:
I supervised : one Bachelor thesis, two Master thesis and three internships at the Lund University. All students will be co-authors on some of the yet unpublished manuscripts described above
I organized several outreach events which were really well received by both the public, school children and scientists involved (See attached image).
I applied to six (2018) and three (2019) higher Academic positions. I was listed in the top five for at least one of them. The results for the last two positions are yet to be known.
I applied for several grant applications: was granted three (a five year fellowship from the Academy of Finland, a three year fellowship from teh swedish funding scheme FORMAS, and a travel support grant for teaching in Cameroon).
I participated in four meetings (Phylogenetic symposium in Lund Sweden, Gordon conference in Boston USA, genomic workshop in Turkku Finland, Biodiversity meeting in Lund Sweden)
I was invited to four European Universities to present my research: Lund University Sweden, Aarhus University Denmark, Zurich and Basel Universities in Switzerland.
Skills acquired:
I improved my understanding of phylogenetics and phylogenomics in contact with Prof. N. Wahlberg's group, and similarly acquired skills to build my own phylogenetic studies.
I learned new molecular techniques for whole genome library preparations
I acquired skills to analyse metabolomic datasets
