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Wil Sewade, Ph.D.

@will-sewade.bsky.social

Vector-borne disease ecology. Malaria | Arbovirus | Symbiosis | Zoonosis | NTD | Climate change and VBD | Biodiversity and Conservation.

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Admissions to 2025-2026 PhD Programmes | Sapienza Universitร  di Roma

www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/ad...

26.07.2025 09:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

www.bio.tamu.edu/new-study-re...

13.06.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Phylogenetic insights into the transmission dynamics of arthropod-borne viruses Nature Reviews Genetics - Arthropod-borne viruses have a substantial impact on global health, with climate change and urbanization exacerbating their emergence. Integrating genomic surveillance and...

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13.06.2025 21:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Inside labs fighting one of the worldโ€™s deadliest diseases as it hits Europe A SWARM of blood-sucking mosquitoes encircle me, buzzing around my face.ย  Iโ€™m perched on a bed in a tin-roofed shed and the only barrier to the outside world is a mozzie net filled with holes.โ€ฆ

www.thesun.co.uk/health/35228...

07.06.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control Nature - An in vivo screen of small-molecule compounds to inhibit the mosquito-stage development of Plasmodium identified hits that can be incorporated into bed nets and led to effective parasite...

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26.05.2025 06:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nice

23.05.2025 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anopheles mosquito exposure is associated with age, gender and bed net use in areas in Uganda experiencing varying malaria transmission intensity - PubMed Adults and school-age children are at higher risk of receiving mosquito bites, and this has implications for the relative importance of demographic populations to onward malaria transmission to mosqui...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40383398/

23.05.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Admissions - IDIL GRADUATE PROGRAM Processus d'inscription A un MASTER IDIL Celui-ci se dรฉroule en 3 รฉtapes successives : 1 - Choix du parcours Contact Dans un premier temps, veuillez prendre contact avec le responsable du Master qui v...

idil.edu.umontpellier.fr/inscription/

20.05.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SMBE Satellite Meeting: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides SMBE Satellite Meeting: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides

uh.edu/nsm/biology-...

20.05.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Panel Discussion: 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?' This talk brings together experts in pathogen genomics, virology, ecology, climate science, and data science to explore how AI, genomic surveillance, andโ€ฆ

www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-...

16.05.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Preventing the Next Pandemic Why we must urgently boost biosurveillance for zoonotic pathogens

thepathologist.com/issues/2025/...

11.05.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Masterโ€™s degree in Bioinformatics of Infectious Disease โ€“ Stars Fellows

www.starsfellows.africa/master-bioin...

10.05.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scholarship for MSc in Bioinformatics of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Genomics at Stellenbosch University | The New Fuel Data Discover a prestigious scholarship for the MSc in Bioinformatics of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Genomics at Stellenbosch University. Learn about

thenewfueldata.in/scholarship-...

10.05.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[ #Education - #Inscription ] ๐—ฉ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜€ รช๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜‚๐—ป.๐—ฒ รฉ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜.๐—ฒ ร  ๐—น'รฉ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ?

Les inscriptions ร  nos parcours MQERS & SPSD (M1 et M2) ouvriront le ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฎ ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—น avec l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie ! ๐ŸŽ“ ๐Ÿ“…

โžก๏ธMQERS : sesstim.univ-amu.fr/fr/master-mq...
โžก๏ธSPSD : sesstim.univ-amu.fr/fr/master-spsd

15.04.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Absolutely agree!

29.04.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Zoonotic Web Explore Austria's zoonotic interactions with an interactive visualization, introducing the 'zoonotic web' concept to describe animal-human-environment relationships.

vis.csh.ac.at/zoonotic-web/

29.04.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Interesting!

24.04.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Molecular evidence of Wolbachia and Orthoflavivirus infection in fieldโ€collected mosquitoes in three provinces of Tรผrkiye Background Mosquitoes transmit various pathogens causing diseases like Zika, Dengue, West Nile and Chikungunya. They also harbour insect-specific viruses (ISVs) and Wolbachia, which can block arbovi...

The latest research paper, published today in Tropical Medicine & International Health, unveils findings on the circulation of insect-specific viruses and Wolbachia in mosquitoes.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

15.04.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Assessing Temperature-Dependent Deltamethrin Toxicity in Various kdr Genotypes of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes"

Nice paper.

www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16...

15.04.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

www.malariaworld.org/news/podcast-4

13.04.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The mosquitocidal activity of isoxazoline derivatives afoxolaner, lotilaner, and fluralaner are not affected by mosquito sugar or antibiotic treatment - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The mosquitocidal activity of isoxazoline derivatives afoxolaner, lotilaner, and fluralaner are not affected by mosquito sugar or antibiotic treatment

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.04.2025 12:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An animal source of mpox emerges โ€” and itโ€™s a squirrel Researchers solve the mystery of a disease outbreak through long-term surveillance of wildlife in Africa.

Just like H5N1, SARS-CoV-2, and Ebola, mpox virus didn't come from a lab.

In this case, it came from a squirrel.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

08.04.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 389    ๐Ÿ” 158    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
Inaugural Research Fellowship in Public Health Intelligence: Charitรฉ โ€“ Universitรคtsmedizin Berlin Fellowship, Berlin WHO Hub

globalhealth.charite.de/lehre_und_ka...

03.04.2025 22:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger? How climate change shapes mosquito immunity.

Last week we @akhorramnejad.bsky.social publish a paper on how climate change could alter mosquitoes-virus interactions

Here is a blog post in Research Communities from @springernature.com summarising our results using a less technical language and telling the #BehindthePaper go.nature.com/41fy80U

12.02.2025 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AnoKin: a close-kin mark-recapture study I'm Sanjay Curtis Nagi. Researcher. Welcome to my blog!

Using genomics to predict how far mosquitoes can fly

www.sanjaycnagi.com/blog/2025-03...

31.03.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Public Health Employment Connection - public health jobs and resumes

Interesting, as Public health job website

apps.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/

31.03.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To fight malaria, scientists want to poison mosquitoesโ€”with human blood Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it could be a valuable new tool in the fight against disease.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

31.03.2025 09:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We now know what causes the Buruli ulcer, so what are we doing about it? Knowing that mosquitoes are involved in the transmission of the Buruli ulcer in Victoria is a breakthrough, but we need to work out what happens next to tackle the disease, say University of Melbourne...

mosquitoes are involved in the transmission of the Buruli ulcer
#mosquito, #Buruli ulcer, #Australia

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-...

29.03.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits for malaria control in western Kenya (ATSB-Kenya) โ€“ Effect of ATSBs on epidemiologic and entomologic indicators: a Phase III, open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled... Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSBs) are a novel malaria control tool designed to target mosquitoes outdoors. We conducted a cluster-randomised trial to evaluate the impact of ATSBs on malaria indi...

Interesting paper!

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

29.03.2025 12:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What is Australian bat lyssavirus? Can I catch it from bat poo? What if bats roost near me? Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus is serious but extraordinarily rare, and there are effective treatments. So thereโ€™s no need to panic.

Great quick read from some superstars in our group!! ๐ŸŒณ ๐Ÿฆ‡ ๐Ÿฆ  ๐Ÿ’ฉ

theconversation.com/what-is-aust...

28.03.2025 04:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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