Can we tackle antimicrobial resistance or predict future pandemics?
The first panel of our #OneHealth conference will focus on innovation in surveillance and diagnostics, health systems and more!
π buff.ly/bqvaXlW
@cassandrakoh.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @engelmal.bsky.social @epidemy.org
So great to finally have this out!!
19.08.2025 17:32 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Implications of successive blood feeding on #dengue virus inhibition by Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
@entomososwin.bsky.social @mallerybreban.bsky.social @brackneylab.bsky.social @chantalvogels.bsky.social @yaleemd.bsky.social
πNew preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. π§¬π‘
Continue reading (π§΅)
I gave a talk last year at TEDxNewEngland aimed at introducing the idea of viral sociality to a general audience, including implications for evolution & virology. Video now available online below.
#socialviruses #evosky #virosky π§ͺ
I'm so excited to share this with all of you!
This is the very first paper where I am the first author π₯Ή
Let me share some insights about our work ππ§΅(1/5):
How do persistent viral infections impact the host?
What happens when a fly becomes persistently infected by a virus?
The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...
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We look forward seeing you Aug. 12 for our next webinar on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Dr Maringer @maringerlab.bsky.social will present "Virus-specific innate immune responses in Aedes aegypti". Register: lnkd.in/gJdiYGm7. @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social @utmbhealth.bsky.social
18.07.2025 13:09 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
We have a postdoc position available in which weβre using flavivirus replication/molecular biology to make refractory mosquitoes - in collaboration with the Trevor Sweeney lab at @pirbrightinst.bsky.social. Check out the advert on LinkedIn and apply by 12/6.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
π£ I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology π¦ or arbovirology π¦
ποΈ Application deadline 31 August 2025
Aedes albopictus (asian tiger mosquito)
π¦ Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics
new from the lab -- we investigate 100% ethanol, DMSO salt solution (DESS), EDTA, RNAlater, and AllProtect as possible approaches for short term room temperature preservation of mosquito HMW DNA, nuclei for Hi-C, and RNA towards high quality reference genome creation. the key findings/tips are ....
07.07.2025 07:20 β π 24 π 13 π¬ 3 π 0Thrilled (and humbled!) to share that since today I am the Chair of the Virology Department at @pasteur.fr. Grateful to my colleagues for their trust. Now letβs push the frontiers of virus research together. The sky is the limit! π¦ π¬ #Virology #Science #TeamPasteur
01.07.2025 20:29 β π 94 π 7 π¬ 7 π 3
π¨ Save the date!!
We're hosting the next European Congress of Entomology (ECE) in Tours, France π«π· from 29 June to 3 July 2026 ππ¦π
π¬ 50+ symposia covering nearly every aspect of insect science
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Registration opens 10 July 2025
π Stay tuned: www.ece2026.org
#ECE2026 #Entomology #Insects
In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeonsβ¦
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Big news! Applications for the 2025/2026 Paris Postdocs Seminars series are now open β
Donβt miss the chance to present your scientific work in one of our 13 participating institutes and increase your network!
π Register by June 15th, 2025 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ParisPostdocs
Blood-feeding patterns of #mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) collected in an area of high arbovirus transmission in West-Central Brazil JMedEnt
27.05.2025 04:18 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Glad to see this out!! Itβs been bafflingly difficult to convince people that assuming mosquito transmission of Oropouche is a sloppy prior directly contradicted by all available evidence π₯² and that, in turn, itβs a serious problem that we know so little about Culicoides paraensis distributionβ¦
30.04.2025 18:18 β π 35 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
A graphic for the Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie SkΕodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions β β¬404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchersβ
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of β¬404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September β europa.eu/!fBTMgF
The co-receptors Orco and Ir8a are required for coordinated expression of chemosensory genes in the antennae of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.23.650034v1
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π§΅1/ Introducing ExpBites, a lightweight #rstats π¦ to analyze mosquito biting exposure according to hourly activities and locations of human and #mosquitoes. Built for modeling true expected #bednet efficacy.π¦βΊοΈ
π¦ GitHub: buff.ly/tImDQdv
ποΈ Shiny app: buff.ly/t9oMOwv
#malaria #anopheles
Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social!
We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Our new preprint (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) describesβ¨AedesTraitsβ¨ (zenodo.org/records/1514...) - A global database on temperature-trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes. #AedesTraits holds >31,000 rows of fully open data extracted from published literature (1930s to 2025)!
14.04.2025 11:36 β π 13 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
The overlapping global distribution of #dengue, #chikungunya, #Zika and #yellowfever
#IDsky βοΈ #EpiSky π¦
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come and work with me!
The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal
Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists
Link below π
Too important a read not to repost
#NewPI π
I forgot that first author @kdainty.bsky.social is on Bsky too...Congrats Kim on this nice work!
#SymbioSky π¦
Check out this neat piece of work using transcriptomics to link viral infections to altered aging processes... Also doesn't love a study with its own mascot? π§ͺπͺ°π¦
14.03.2025 15:37 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New work out from @heatherflores.bsky.social & colleagues: Wolbachia genome show little variation post-introgression into natural Aedes aegypti populations, a non-native insect host. Super interesting finding on host-symbiont relationships and great news for Wolbachia-based vector control efforts!π¦π§ͺ
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