Exeter and the Galleria Mellonella Research Centre part of new NC3Rs project (worth £490,642) to reduce murine models in research, with James Wakefield as a co-investigator. Full details: nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfolio/… also: gmrcuk.org

I am pleased to inform you of the publication of the Drosophila immunity handbook. The pdf version of the book is free, or a physical version of the book is available for purchase at EPFL press.epflpress.org/produit/1514/9…

When your students are talented both inside and outside of the lab 😍 Thanks to our fantastic summer student Pippa for this incredible card! Over the last 8 weeks Pippa worked to assess different methods of hemocyte collection and fixation 🐛🔬

Some really interesting PhD projects making use of our Galleria larvae are being advertised! Take a look: New therapies for ESKAPE pathogens project: gw4biomed.ac.uk/developing-new… Sterols and lipids in TB project: gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigating-…

Microinjection methods for Galleria embryos by our very own James Pearce : doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Preprint by James Pearce for the generation of transgenic Galleria mellonella and CRISPR knockouts: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

To accompany the release of yesterday’s pre-prints we have the second of our YouTube videos now live! Covering: - hemocyte flow cytometry - larvae dissection and anatomy - embryo injection and transgenesis youtu.be/DyEfCWmd-4U

Characterization of novel phage pK3-24 targeting multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and its therapeutic efficacy in Galleria mellonella larvae dlvr.it/TFHWJs

GMRC goes to Europe! (by bike 😂🚴🏼‍♂️🐛)

And one other thing for all zebbie folks….

Berlin was awesome. Fantastic to see @erk0199 doing well with his #CrisprGalleria, and very happy to be able to present what we’ve with been doing with #Galleria / GMRC UK to a lovely bunch of researchers in the evolutionary biology dept Freie Universität

Now on 🦋 too, can find me at JamesCPearce (as on here). If you want to follow the updates from GMRC UK that Jennie Campbell, thewakefieldlab and I manage - we're there too @ both GMRC and GMRCUK

Getting somewhere with preventing our research-grade larvae from spinning silk during experiments 👀🐛 🐛 left - treated 🧵 right - untreated

Thinking about conducting some Galleria experiments this year? Contact us about our research-grade strain: [email protected] 🐛 Laboratory reared WITHOUT antibiotics 🐛 Health checked 🐛 Weight matched All for more reliable and reproducible experiments 🤩🔬🧫

Time to jump ship from here, see you on 🦋 @ jenniesc . 🦋 . social

We won’t be active on here any more in light of recent events. See you over on 🦋 @ gmrc . 🦋 . social (We also hold @ gmrcuk)

Back here to promote the upcoming Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 for anyone still following us on this platform. More info here: gmrcuk.org/galleria-mello… Please join us! You can now find us on 🦋 instead: @ gmrc.🦋.social

🐛Pleased to announce our first two speakers for GMW2025, to be held on 15/09/2025 at Edge Hill University: 🎤Professor Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy - University of Reading/PEVITAC 🎤Dr Christopher J Coates - University of Galway ⭐️For more info & to sign up: gmrcuk.org/galleria-mello…

🐛 Speaker 3 for GMW2025 is here! 🎤 Prof. Toby Jenkins with "Development of an improved Galleria mellonella burn model for studying burn wound infection" (co-authored work by Burn research) 📍 Edge Hill Uni, Ormskirk – Mon 15 Sept 2025 🔗More info: gmrcuk.org/galleria-mello…

🚨 Last chance to register for GMW 2025 🚨 📆 15 Sept • Edge Hill Uni, UK Talks from Prof Khutoryanskiy, Dr Coates, Prof Jenkins & Simon Booth, Dr Bruchmann + practical training (rearing, injections, dissections). ⭐ FREE registration closes 1 Sept: shorturl.at/C5GWW