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A second new post-doctoral research associate vacancy at LSTM in the Departments of Vector Biology and Tropical Disease Biology. Read more here: rb.gy/hslmy

Australia's strategy all series has been to sit back and wait for England to make the mistakes. And it's working! #Ashes

Been great to have Perran Ross visiting for the last couple of weeks. Treasure trove of mosquito/drosophila/Wolbachia knowledge.

Perhaps you've wondered what Doritos would look like in a CT scan. We did, so here's a clump of Cool Ranch Doritos, scanned through the bag. But there's more...🧵

Had about 2 years with Laura as a mentor and friend and all I’ll say is that Salford is lucky to be getting her. Good luck Laura!

Amazing paper just out from my lab mate Nicole using single cell RNAseq to look for some better germ line promoters in mosquitoes 👏👏👏nature.com/articles/s4200… feat Tony Nolan

We have a FCS Innovation Academy DNA Club team researching the distribution of Wolbachia related sex ratio distorters in pillbugs across the US. We are raising funds to help with Sanger sequencing costs. Please help us if you can through our crowdfunding: experiment.com/pillbugsrd

I finish my PhD lab work the same way I started it: mosquito dissections. Since one of the things I've enjoyed most at LSTM has been teaching, I thought I'd share these pics for whoever wants to use them 😊

Next preprint is up!! This time we looked to see if adjacent sequences are copied over along with gene drives in Anopheles - check out the paper below researchsquare.com/article/rs-367…

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Check out these PhD projects the lab has on offer! 💠 Exploiting native Wolbachia strains in Anopheles for novel malaria control approaches. 💠 Disentangling interactions between the mosquito and its microbiome 💠Exploiting antivirals for control of arboviruses in mosquitoes

The next Wolbachia Conference will be held at OIST, Okinawa Japan (13-19 Apr 2025). The website is now open. web.tuat.ac.jp/~insect/wolbac… Please check your calendar, and spread this info to your colleagues. See you in Okinawa!

Excited to unveil our progress on a multiplexed split homing gene drive in Aedes aegypti! 🦟🧬 This journey has been a true collaboration, with incredible effort from many individuals. 🙌nature.com/articles/s4146…

But perhaps the most striking pictures are those of the ordinary people of Samarqand, whether melon sellers and fabric merchants.

Read this article, co-written by LSTM PhD student Camille Abada for The Conversation, about the discovery of the 95Mat5 antibody, which has huge potential as a game-changing treatment for snakebite envenoming. ⬇️ #Research theconversation.com/were-a-step-cl…

What is the most aperture opening thing a phage enzyme can do to a eukaryotic host? This new paper put that question to the test in our lab. Sperm, prophage, long noncoding RNA, and symbiosis by Rupinder Kaur, PhD Angelina McGarry Brittany Leigh J. Dylan Shropshire science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Came on here just to post our recent pub in PLOS Pathogens - journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Covering some Jason Rasgon wisdom at the MosSI group retreat.

Developing Wolbachia for malaria control: the second stable transinfection in Anopheles. journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

Develop your talent for research. Our fully-funded, 4-year MRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is now open to applicants for an October 2025 start. Apply by 23:59 on 4 December 2024. Find out more: lstm.ac/MRC-DTP