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1.05.2022  Bachelor student Nikolas Westerwiede Barros joined the Lab. Welcome!
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11.07.2022  Doctoral student André Bogdanowski successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis. Congratulations André!
12.04.2022  Ghada Yousif won the prize for the best talk at the IMPRS symposium in Dornburg. Congratulations Ghada!
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05.04.2022  Our paper "Cooperation increases robustness to ecological disturbance in microbial cross-feeding networks." was published:
17.01.2022  Our paper "Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability." was published:
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20.12.2021  Our paper "McComedy: a user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems." was published:
02.11.2021  Our paper "Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria" was published:
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01.09.2021  Master student Jenna Boy joined the lab. Welcome Jenna!
15.07.2021  Our paper "Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria​​" was published:
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01.05.2021  Bachelor student Lefkothea Karamani joined the lab. Welcome!
29.04.2021  Doctoral student Ghada Yousif won a prize for the best talk of the IMPRS.  Congratulations Ghada!!
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15.04.2021  Doctoral student Samir Giri successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis. Congratulations Samir!!
01.02.2021  Ph.D. students Sharvari Harshe and Swagatika Dash joined the lab. Welcome!
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01.11.2020 Technical Assistant Susana Pereira joined the Lab. Welcome Susana!!
01.11.2020  Master Students Andreas Messer and Michael Itermann joined the lab. Welcome!!
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07.09.2020  Doctoral student Anne-Kathrin Dietel successfully defended her Doctoral Thesis. Congratulations Anne!
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23.07.2020  Our paper "Reciprocal Fitness Feedbacks Promote the Evolution of Mutualistic Cooperation​​" was published:
19.5.2020  Bachelor student Neele Avermann successfully completed her Bachelor's Thesis. Congratulations!
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18.05.2020  Our paper "Evolution: Predictable Patterns of Symbiont Cointegration.​" was published:
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21.04.2020  Dominique Remy's project on meadow rewilding wins BfN award (more...). 
30.03.2020  Postdoctoral member of our Lab, Piyali Pal Chowdhury has left the Team. We will miss you!
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28.02.2020  Doctoral student Daniel Preussger successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis. Congratulations!
01.12.2019  Bachelor student Alexander Pfaff successfully completed his Bachelor's Thesis. Congratulations!
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15.10.2019 Bachelor student Franziska Theising successfully completed her Bachelor's Thesis. Congratulations!
01.09.2019 Bachelor Student Neele Avermann  joined the Lab. Welcome!
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01.07.2019 M.Sc. Shiksha Ajmera joined the Lab. Welcome!
01.07.2019 Master Students Pascal Brameier-Weuda and Benedikt Pauli successfully completed their Master's Thesis. Congratulations!
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28.06.2019 Our paper "Defining Division of Labor in Microbial Communities.​" was published:​
15.04.2019 Bachelor Students Anna Milchin, Wyn Pflug and Franziska Theising  joined the lab. Welcome!!
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01.04.2019 Our paper "Selective advantages favour high genomic AT-contents in intracellular elements.​" was published:

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14.03.2019 M.Sc. Saskia Wilmsen joined the Lab. Welcome!



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22.01.2019 Our paper "Nanotube-mediated cross-feeding couples the metabolism of interacting bacterial cells.​" was published:
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15.01.2019 Research Assistant position open in our Lab. 
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07.01.2019 Master Student Iqra Rafik Kasu joined the Lab. Welcome Iqra!!
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01.10.2018 Master Student Thomas Schulzendorf joined the Lab. Welcome Thomas!!
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October  2018 M.Sc. Linéa Muhsal and M.Sc. André Bogdanowski joined the Lab. Welcome!
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01.09.2018 Bachelor Student Alexander Pfaff joined the Lab. Welcome Alexander!!
01.09.2018 Bachelor Student Jan-Paul Fischer joined the Lab. Welcome Jan-Paul!!
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May 2018 PhD position EvoCell - Cellular Mechanisms of Evolutionary Innovation.
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01.04.2018 Technical Assistant Marita Hermann joined the Lab. Welcome Marita!!
30.11.2017 Prof. Christian Kost: Inaugural Lecture

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14.11.2017  The Kost-Lab was involved in organizing an international Mini-Symposium on Microbiota.
03.11.2017  Our paper "Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU" was published:
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06.12.2017 Shraddha successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Shraddha!
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29.9.2017 Dr. Piyali Pal Chowdhury won the second best poster prize in the international symposium SFB:

01.11.2017
  Ramya will start her PhD in Mainz. Congrats Ramya!
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12.6.2017
Ghada Yousif obteined a travel grant for the BacNet conference.


05.05.2017
Shraddha Shitut obtained an iNext grant to study the structure of interbacterial nanotubes using cryo-electron tomography
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On the 10.06.2017 we had the Osnabrücker Campus Nacht. Click on the icon to know more


04.04.2017 
Our paper "Bacterial unculturability and the formation of intercellular metabolic networks" was published:
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13.06.2016 Glen successfully defends his PhD thesis, which is entitled "The evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria“. Congratulations Glen! He now moves to Switzerland, to join the group of Martin Ackermann at the ETH Zürich.
07.04.2016 Silvio successfully defends his PhD thesis, which is entitled "Evolutionary systems biology of bacterial metabolic adaptation". Congratulations Silvio! He now continues his academic career as a post doc at the Medical Systems Biology Group of Prof. Christoph Kaleta at CAU, Kiel.
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30.03.2016 Silvio's paper titled "Metabolic network architecture and carbon source determine metabolite production costs" has been accepted for publication at the FEBS Journal. Congrats Silvio!
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16.03.2016 Daniel wins one of the best poster awards at the Annual Conference 2016 of the Association of General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) held in Jena. Congrats Daniel!
February 2016. Our work on intercellular cross-feeding via nanotubes and on adaptive gene loss were featured in Max Planck Research and in a podcast by detektor.fm. ​
February 2016. Muhammad starts his PhD thesis funded by the International Max Planck Research School. Congrats Muhammad!
February 2016. Ariane finishes her Masters thesis titled " Generation of auxotrophic Bacillus subtilis strains". Congratualtions Ariane!
10.01.2016 Ramya Ganesan joins our group for a 6 month internship. Welcome Ramya!
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01.10.2015  Esther Voigt joins our group as a new master's student. 
                           Welcome Esther!
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01.09.2015  Samir Giri joins our lab as a new PhD student. Welcome Samir!
16.08.2015 John Carey highlights two of our publications in a PNAS News Feature 
                             on the evolution of symbiotic interactions (link).  
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01.04.2015 Ghada Yousif joins the EEE group as a new DAAD-funded PhD student. Ghada will work on metabolic cross-feeding within soil microbial communities. Welcome Ghada!
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02.03.2015 Muhammad Atiqur Rahman from the University of Tampere (Finland) joined our lab as a new master student. 
 Welcome 
Muhammad!
30.01.2015 Glen's and Silvio's paper on the effects of epistasis and plastiticty of 
                          auxotrophy-causing mutations has been accepted at Evolution (article).
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08.01.2015 Breaking news: Samay's, Shraddha's, and Lisa's paper on the
                     intercellular communication of bacteria via nanotubes has been
                     acccepted for publication in Nature Communications 
                     (article) (press release)(Highlight in Nature).
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25.09.2014  Samay successfully defends his excellent doctoral thesis "Ecological mechanisms that stabilize cooperative cross-feeding in bacteria". Congratulations Samay! He now moves on to work with Greg Velicer's group at ETH Zurich.  ​
Christian Kost and Martin Ackermann organize a symposium on the upcoming ESEB meeting in Lausanne on the levels of selection in microbial systems (more).
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15.10.2014 Elena Inguglia joins the lab as a new master student. Welcome Elena!
13.10.2014 Ariane Zander joins the lab as a new master Student. Welcome Ariane!
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1.11.2012 Shraddha Shitut joins our group as a new PhD student. Welcome 
                    Shraddha!
1.10.2012 Anne successfully defends her excellent diploma thesis "Metabolic costs of 
                    copy number, size, and GC-content of plasmids as model endosymbionts".
                    Congratulations Anne! 

                    Fortunately, we could convince Anne to stay a little longer and do her   
                    PhD in our group. ​
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1.07.2012 Silvio Waschina joins the lab as a new PhD student that is cosupervised
                     by Christoph Kaleta and Christian Kost. Welcome back Silvio!
9.01.2012  Silvio successfully defends his excellent diploma thesis, which is entitled  "Theoretical design 
                       and experimental verification of amino acid overproducing strains of Escherichia coli using
                       CASOP GS". Congratulations Silvio!
1.11.2011 The lab welcomes Daniel Preußger, who is joining us as a master 
                      student. Welcome Daniel!
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1.09.2011 Glen D'Souza joins the lab as a new PhD student. Welcome Glen!
30.08.2011 Tobias Weise hands in his bachelor's thesis, which is entitled: 'Aufbau und Inbetriebnahme 
                       einer Chemostaten-Anlage zur Kokultivierung mutualistischer Bakterienstaemme'
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                       Congratulations Tobias! Unfortunately Tobias leaves us to commence the Master's program 
                       biotechnology at the FH Jena.
Martin Kaltenpoth and Christian Kost coorganize a symposium on "Mutualistic interactions: causes and consequences" at the ESEB conference 2011 in Tuebingen (more...)
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18.05.2011 Sandra Scholz hands in her diploma thesis, which is entitled 'Establishing of a flexible labeling
                      strategy for soil bacteria with fluorescent proteins
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                       Axel Mithoefer's group for a PhD. ​
1.04.2011 Christian Kost becomes a faculty member of the International Max 
                     Planck Research School (IMPRS) in Jena.
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 28.02.2011 Tobias Weise and Silvio Waschina join the lab as a bachelor  
                         and a diploma student respectively.
9.01.2011 The lab farewells Ingrid. It was great having you here.
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01.11.2010  Anne-Kathrin Dietel joins the lab as a new master student. Welcome Anne!
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15.09.2010 Ingrid Teich does an internship with us.
13.07.2010 Felix Bertels successfully defends his diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences.
                      Congratulations Felix!
08.07.2009 Our work is supported by an 'Advanced Postdoctoral 
                       Fellowship' of the VolkswagenStiftung.
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24.11.2009 The lab welcomes Sandra Scholz as a new diploma student.
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05.11.2009 Christian Kost co-authors a paper on the evolution of bet-hedging (more...).
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01.11.2009 Samay Pande joins the lab as a new JSMC-funded PhD student. 
                       Welcome Samay!
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