Margaret Becker PhD

📢 Offre de #thèse en modélisation écologique !
Diversité et distribution des #moustiques en #AfriqueDeLOuest 🌍🦟🌐

📍 #Sénégal
🎯 candidatures Sénégal et sous-région

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#Modélisation #Ecologie #IRD #Biodiversité #

24.04.2025 12:12 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Yee Mosquito Lab Visit the post for more.

🦟🧪 ***I'm recruiting*** one student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join my lab January 2026. Students need a 3.0 GPA and have an interest/experience in mosquito taxonomy, phenotypes, or ecology. Work on genetics/genomics is a plus. Deadline is 15 October 2025. US based students only. yeemosquitolab.org

24.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 19    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

The overlapping global distribution of dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever - Nature Communications Arboviruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes have an expanding global distribution and identifying areas at risk is important for public health planning. Here, the authors present global disease maps f...

The overlapping global distribution of #dengue, #chikungunya, #Zika and #yellowfever

#IDsky ⚕️ #EpiSky 🦟

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

10.04.2025 19:27 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

lmk when she starts selling mosquito merch on Etsy 😂

08.04.2025 02:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photos of Aedes aegypti female (left) and male (right). Numbers indicate location of collected tissues (listed in legend boxes). Photos by Alex Wild.

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.

Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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05.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 83    🔁 41    💬 6    📌 1

globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]

24.02.2025 10:51 — 👍 149    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 6

Dengue virus susceptibility in Aedes aegypti linked to natural cytochrome P450 variants The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the primary vector for dengue virus (DENV), which infects millions of people annually. Variability in DENV susceptibility among wild Ae. aegypti populations is governed b...

Happy to share our work exploring the genetic basis of dengue susceptibility in Aedes aegypti and revealing the antiviral role of a cytochrome P450. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It had been a long and wild ride that started back when I was a postdoc within @lambrechtslab.bsky.social ! A thread ⬇️

28.02.2025 12:17 — 👍 30    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 1

Excited to announce our next speaker Dr William de Souza who will be presenting work on virus transmission dynamics of #emerging #arboviruses NEXT THURSDAY.
Will be great to get some perspective from an up-and-coming investigator. PLEASE help with a repost for this community driven seminar series.

12.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of years ago in Egypt.

🦟 "‘London Underground’ #mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins: once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of years ago in #Egypt." by Chris Simms @nature.com news
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

04.02.2025 10:59 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

According to Anastasia who's a post doc, I'm supposed to have a go-to drink while writing my dissertation. I told her it was Sprite Zero 😂 alcohol makes me too sleepy and caffeine doesn't work anymore

09.02.2025 02:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0