Grant Hughes

What @edmhill.bsky.social said!!!👇

Post Doctoral Research Associate in Wolbachia Biology | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Ready to make a difference in vector biology research? We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic researcher to join an exciting BBSRC-funded project exploring the fascinating interactions betwee...

Come and join the @mossi-lab.bsky.social group! We have a postdoc position available on Wolbachia and Anopheles interactions.

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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Wolbachia Biology | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Ready to make a difference in vector biology research? We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic researcher to join an exciting BBSRC-funded project exploring the fascinating interactions betwee...

Come and join the @mossi-lab.bsky.social group! We have a postdoc position available on Wolbachia and Anopheles interactions.

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News from team #Wolbachia genuine symbionts in SOME #Anopheles species! 🧬🖥️ 🦠🧫 🧪 Led by @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Tom Walker & team; and first first-author since Laura joined us @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 😊
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #mosquito (1/3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

West Nile virus detected in UK mosquitoes for first time A UK Health Safety Agency spokesperson said the risk to the general public is

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Fun unexpected finding just submitted as a preprint

Congrats Edan!

Okinawa bound for Wolbachia25!

Some MosSI Lab representation at the @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Forum - @luciendobel.bsky.social and @tarasusyjoe.bsky.social presenting on the mosquito microbiome. #EntoSci #MosquitoMicrobiome #MosSILab

Aedes aegypti eggs can survive dry conditions hatching when water rises.

#FunFactFriday: Aedes aegypti eggs can lie dormant for months in dry conditions, then spring to life minutes after rainfall.

This persistence is just one of the reasons why our sustainable #Wolbachia method is crucial for protecting communities from diseases like #dengue.

Have a good weekend!

What a title!
"This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates"
Biodiversity declines really concerning.
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some stuff we did Alex…

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We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06 -19, 202...

PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Awesome topic. Unbeatable location.

#symbiosky #microsky #evobio

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International Fellowships 2025 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?

BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding

Schematic overview of the PhD; combining bacterial genomes from a large collection to analyse adhesins, metabolic potential, bacterial warfare; and compare to other arthropod symbiontes and design a minimal microbiome.

#PhD alert, here @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the very friendly, diverse, artsy & welcoming city of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts?

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪

More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Fascinating research and a reminder of the complexity of non-human animals' #microbiome - and the complex impacts on #PublicHealth and #OneHealth

Trying to focus on something positive for a second; outstanding work finally seeing the light of bioRXiv; #mosquito #microbiome #ZIKV interactions; after ~7(?) years' work, this really complex manuscript is finally here! #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪 TLDR; The #holobiont diversity strikes again 😊🦟🦠

🚨 We are recruiting for two post-doc positions!🚨

1) Development of genetic tools to study mosquito immune cells isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

2) Role of mosquito immune cells in immune recognition and priming isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Femails!

Mosquito host background influences microbiome-ZIKV interactions in field and laboratory-reared Aedes aegypti The mosquito microbiota represents an intricate assemblage of microorganisms, comprising bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa. Factors modulating microbiome abundance and composition include host ge...

Science distraction? #Zika virus interactions with the microbiome in Aedes aegypti. The microbiomes in different mosquito lines respond distinctly to viral exposure and infection. @laurabrettell.bsky.social @alexwild.bsky.social @evaheinz7.bsky.social and others.

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Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecology and evolution of their hosts. Male-killing is a ...

New preprint from @haraipapilio.bsky.social with @bolinabug.bsky.social @daisukekageyama.bsky.social and others not on bluesky #symbiosky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy 2025 all! Hot off the press, news from the #mosquito #microbiomes and why a 'reproducibility crisis' in mosquito research might be because your #holobiont is not exactly the same as next-door's holobiont 😁 💻🧬🦠🦟
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Handy for fish and chips

Lovely week to finish the year for the @mossi-lab.bsky.social lab. @aidanfoo.bsky.social doing fantastic work at his viva and Ana Pitol securing a lecturer position @lstmnews.bsky.social!

Lovely week to finish the year for the @mossi-lab.bsky.social lab. @aidanfoo.bsky.social doing fantastic work at his viva and Ana Pitol securing a lecturer position @lstmnews.bsky.social!

Huge congratulations to Dr @aidanfoo.bsky.social who passed his viva yesterday!

@mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social
@gemma-langridge.bsky.social

Neat system!

Lots of fantastic research on display in the #UKVBD2024 poster session