162 participants, 26 countries from 5 continents. Thank you all for making #SymbNET2024 such a great success! 💙

Time to say goodbye! Obrigada to everyone who participated and made #SymbNET2024 such a fulfilling event!

And the award goes to…. 🥁 Ana Raquel Cruz for best poster. Gonçalo Santos-Matos for best talk. Congratulations to our winners! 🥇👏 #Symbnet2024 #happysciencing #scientificmeeting #awards

Exploring the microbial mysteries in the lives of insects with Nancy Moran @UTAustin

Opening the last block of talks, Silvia Henriques from @ChampalimaudF is talking on how diet-microbiome-host interactions remodel the fly metabolic landscape, appetite and physiology.

@PascaleVonaesch @unil starting the last session of the #SymbNET2024 with a talk on "Deciphering the impact of Streptococcus salivarius on small intestinal inflammation in stunted children."

Médéric Diard @Diard_Lab @biozentrum @UniBasel_en gave the second plenary session of this morning on "Steering pathogens within-host evolution."#SymbNET2024

In the plenary session of this morning, @epcrocha from @institutpasteur @CNRS trying to figure out who’s the symbiont of whom in the Interaction networks of mobile genetic elements in bacteria. #SymbNET2024

Some of the verses of yesterday. Which one was your favorite? #SymbNET2024

Our band, Shakra, is already warming up! Get ready to move your feet and sing along! #SymbNET2024

Be creative and write a verse in any language you like! (Tonight we celebrate Santo António festivities in Portugal, and it’s part of the tradition to write/read a verse.) #SymbNET2024 #SantoAntonio #FestasPopulares