Chloe Fouilloux, PhD

This week I've has a re-occurring fever dream where I am doing stand-up comedy to an audience (who are all horses) and open with: "Why the long faces?"; which is followed by dream-me hysterically laughing while the horses watch silently. I just need to know what my subconscious is trying to tell me.

13.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spookiest horseshoe crab in the Midwest 🐎👠🦀 Happy Halloween !

02.11.2025 02:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🐸Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants ➡️ buff.ly/NyBIPVP

Rodriguez et al., link spatial variation in leaf litter ant communities to frog chemical defences.

07.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Last full moon paddle of the season in Monona Bay. Complete with live music on the water and roasting marshmallows from a kayak. Gotta love Madison. 🍫🌕

06.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A year-long project where I painted a watercolour cat every month. A reason to keep painting, a reason to keep creating. Inspired by travel, friendships, learning, and death.

September cat, the last cat, emerges from a time of grief and reflection. 🐈‍⬛ ❤️

chloefouilloux.com/portfolio/tw...

02.10.2025 03:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ecology and evolution of virulence Silva and King discuss the concept of virulence and the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape it.

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋

@kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence!

Check it below and share :)

#MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

22.09.2025 15:22 — 👍 60    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 0

AWESOME!!! SO WELL DESERVED 😄💕🐦‍🔥🌞

18.09.2025 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you've ever been curious about #ddPCR then my latest YouTube video is just for you! From calculating reagents to interpreting live output, we have got you covered. youtu.be/R0MlmPoF0u4

18.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Local adaptation? Coevolution? There are some really interesting dynamics at play here that I can't wait to sink my teeth into. I am currently waiting on some funding decisions, but if this sounds fun or cool or anything in between please reach out! (3/3) Thank you so much to the organizers!

21.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At the Hite Lab (UW Madison, USA) we find that hosts are castrated by parasitic tapeworms and the exposed females maximise their terminal investment. These effects are both sex and strain specific giving rise to super cool implications for infection and population dynamics (2/n)

21.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@eseb2025.bsky.social has been such a blast! I presented during the "Evolution of biotic interactions across biotic scales" about host fitness consequences in response to parasitic interactions (1/n)

21.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also per my personal tradition, I got away with yet another fun Acknowledgements section. Which is really what it's all about. If reading a methods paper isn't exciting you, I'm always pumped to give a lay summary on my website: chloefouilloux.com/2025/06/13/w... (3/3) 👨‍🎤🎸

13.06.2025 14:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Needle in a Haystack: A Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay to Detect Rare Helminth Parasites Infecting Natural Host Populations

So if you work with helminths and wild populations 🪱, this is the cool beans for you! We are so excited to share this OA work with you just published at Molecular Ecology Resources 🪳🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... (2/3)

13.06.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Graphical abstract demonstrating trophically-transmitted parasite

🚨New paper alert!🚨

Tapeworms don’t just appear inside fish or birds. They travel there. Our latest paper tracks the first step of that journey: detecting parasites in first-intermediate hosts when they are rare + microscopic. We also developed primers/probes to detect parasites across taxa! (1/3)

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