Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

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A revised version of our preprint now includes results from D. biarmipes Or67a paralogs, data from a second D. suzukii Or67a4 mutant, and a model describing how Or67a paralogs are expressed in two distinct neuronal types in D. suzukii. Stay
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good job Qi!

Thank you Mohammed!!!

Thank you my friend!

Thank you Kristyn!

Genomic plasticity drives olfactory adaptation in a pest fly Preference shifts in insects are often driven by changes in the olfactory system, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. The worldwide pest Drosophila suzukii, which oviposits in ripe rather th...

Our first big preprint, led by the great Dr. Qi Xue
@Qi_Xue_94
. We discovered three mechanisms for olfactory adaptation in the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii, two of which are novel .Well Done Qi; you will be a great professor. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Raghav is a high school student who has been working in the lab on spotted lanternflies for the past two years.

Implications of successive blood feeding on Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus inhibition in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - Nature Communications Dengue virus transmission by Ae. aegypti mosquitoes poses a significant public health threat, necessitating innovative control strategies. Here, the authors demonstrate that, while successive blood fe...

So glad to finally have this out with co-author @mallerybreban.bsky.social and very thankful for the many amazing people who contributed to this study and provided materials and input! 🦟🦠1/12 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window A tiny ray of positive news has sunbeamed through the storm clouds. The NIH has announced (NOT-OD-25-114) that Early Stage Investigators (ESI) who reached the end of their eligibility from the Fall…

NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/n...

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🎈Our latest 🪅

We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior.

We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

Investigation of Plant Associations of the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) Across Developmental Stages using iNaturalist Photographs Sourced from the New York City Metropolitan Area1 Host use pattern of phytophagous insects differs based on insect life stage. Spatial and temporal differences in nutritional requirements, morphology, and plant availability contribute to variations i...

spotted lanternfly peeps, check out this new paper from my labmate Katherine's masters work! super cool application of community science in NYC ~ doi.org/10.3954/JAUE...

Preprint! Minos-mediated transgenesis in the pantry moth
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By @donyaniyaz.bsky.social

Yes, lots of doom and gloom, but stellar science is still produced! From Kronforst lab, sensory underpinnings of mate choice in pretty butterlfies!

Lise Meitner Excellence Program Since 2018, up to ten further Lise Meitner Groups will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists as part of the new Lise Meitner Excellence Program.

www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

Interested in Neuroethology? Then, join us at the 1-day Meeting of the French Club of Neuroethology, in the beautiful city of Montpellier, on May 13th. NO FEES REQUIRED. Just register and submit your abstract in: www.zebrain.bio.ens.psl.eu/neuroetholog... .
And enjoy our guest speakers!

As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students.

Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.

Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Thank you, Marcus. He and his brother are always in the lab with us since we were in the Max Planck.

Functional characterization and evolution of olfactory responses in coeloconic sensilla of the global fruit pest Drosophila suzukii - BMC Biology Background When a species changes its host preference, it often requires modifications in its sensory systems. Many of these changes remain largely uninvestigated in the global fruit pest Drosophila s...

The latest from the lab, led by the very talented postdoc Dr Qi Xue. Back to the love (Drosophila) with the real love (Shimaa Ebrahim) and the product of the love (Omar Dweck). bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

While I hate listening to my own voice 😀, I am glad I can help explain to my neighbors why science funding is important for our economy, for our nation's scientific leadership, for better treatments for disease and for the next generation of scientists 🧪

Do you think the Advisory council meetings that were canceled will be rescheduled?

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

"NIH admit freezing is illegal, will resume issuing grants"

popular.info/p/breaking-n...

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities Many microorganisms are refractory to laboratory cultivation. One possible explanation, known as the great plate count anomaly, is metabolic dependencies among community members. However, systematic s...

New paper from my group and the group of
@kiranrpatil.bsky.social:

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities

By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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On era commons, it is pending, but our business office has informed me that they received the renewal . I will double-check tomorrow.

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Thank you. I am in too.

The same here!