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...
07.08.2025 10:48 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Pirbright Institute hiring Postdoctoral Researcher in Woking, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 1:09:44 PM. Postdoctoral Researcher โ (24P-73)The Pirbright Institute Salary: ยฃ38,5000 to 40,000 per annum36โฆSee this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
We have a postdoc position available in which weโre 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...
04.06.2025 10:20 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐ฃ 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 ๐ฆ or arbovirology ๐ฆ
๐๏ธ Application deadline 31 August 2025
28.07.2025 09:25 โ ๐ 56 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Aedes albopictus (asian tiger mosquito)
๐ฆ 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
11.07.2025 21:43 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
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 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
Thrilled (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 letโs push the frontiers of virus research together. The sky is the limit! ๐ฆ ๐ฌ #Virology #Science #TeamPasteur
01.07.2025 20:29 โ ๐ 94 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 3
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
๐จ Save the date!!
We're hosting the next European Congress of Entomology (ECE) in Tours, France ๐ซ๐ท from 29 June to 3 July 2026 ๐๐ฆ๐
๐ฌ 50+ symposia covering nearly every aspect of insect science
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Registration opens 10 July 2025
๐ Stay tuned: www.ece2026.org
#ECE2026 #Entomology #Insects
24.06.2025 06:54 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
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 pigeonsโฆ
24.06.2025 12:27 โ ๐ 136 ๐ 130 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 6
Paris Postdocs Seminars - 2025/2026 series
Application form for the 2025/2026 Paris Postdocs Seminar series
Big news! Applications for the 2025/2026 Paris Postdocs Seminars series are now open โญ
Donโt miss the chance to present your scientific work in one of our 13 participating institutes and increase your network!
๐ Register by June 15th, 2025 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ParisPostdocs
03.06.2025 18:30 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Blood-feeding patterns of #mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) collected in an area of high arbovirus transmission in West-Central Brazil
Abstract#mosquitoes target a wide range of vertebrate species for blood meal and study of these vectorโhost interactions enhances our knowledge of how vector-borne viruses are transmitted. In the last decades, West-Central Brazil has faced the emergence and reemergence of several arboviruses, with a great public health impact. In addition to the well-known #Aedes-borne viruses, such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, other arboviruses have spread throughout the country and constitute a continuous public health concern. We report results of blood meal analysis of #mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) collected in urbanized areas of West-Central Brazil during a Zika virus surveillance between 2017 and 2018. Amplification and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA were used to determine vertebrate origin. A total of 284 blood-engorged #mosquitoes belong to 6 genera and 12 species were collected. Of these, we successfully identified blood meal in 146 (51.4%). Collections of blood-fed individuals were dominated by species of #Culex (65.8%) and #Aedes (25.4%). Overall, blood meal profiles demonstrated that humans were the main source (56.8%). Despite anthropophilic preferences, #Aedes aegypti also fed on domestic (12.5%) and wild mammals (8.3%). #Culex spp. showed an ornithophilic pattern. Humans made up 80% (nโ
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20) of blood meals from #Aedes albopictus while 20% (nโ
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5) were from horses. Our results expand the knowledge regarding the vertebrate species used as hosts by #mosquitoes in urbanized areas of Brazil. The variety of vertebrate species, including rodents, bats, and humans used by the local #mosquitoes, highlights the continuous risk for spillover events.
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 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Glad to see this out!! Itโs been bafflingly difficult to convince people that assuming mosquito transmission of Oropouche is a sloppy prior directly contradicted by all available evidence ๐ฅฒ and that, in turn, itโs a serious problem that we know so little about Culicoides paraensis distributionโฆ
30.04.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A graphic for the Marie Skลodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skลodowska-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 Skลodowska-Curie Actions โ โฌ404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchersโ
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skลodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of โฌ404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September โ europa.eu/!fBTMgF
08.05.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 959 ๐ 563 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 99
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
25.04.2025 04:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Demographic history, genetic load, and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti
Abstract. Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The species is originally from Africa but has experienced
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/...
07.04.2025 19:53 โ ๐ 49 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
AedesTraits: A global database of temperatureโdependent trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes
Our new preprint (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) describesโจAedesTraitsโจ (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 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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 ๐
11.04.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 100 ๐ 99 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Too important a read not to repost
#NewPI ๐
14.03.2025 15:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I forgot that first author @kdainty.bsky.social is on Bsky too...Congrats Kim on this nice work!
#SymbioSky ๐ฆ
14.03.2025 15:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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? ๐งช๐ชฐ๐ฆ
14.03.2025 15:37 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New 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!๐ฆ๐งช
14.03.2025 10:03 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
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 โฌ๏ธ
28.02.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Prepare your calendars ๐
because the March 2025 #ParisPostdocs Seminarsโ newsletter is out ๐ซ See you all at @institutcurie.bsky.social @crcordeliers.bsky.social and Paris Brain Institute!
03.03.2025 17:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Those factors certainly do play a role! And they're being studied by ecologists and epidemiologists who are better equipped that I am to investigate from those angles, though I'd love to collaborate with them someday! Mosquitoes are just one part of the equation
03.03.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sustained Wolbachia-mediated blocking of dengue virus isolates following serial passage in Aedes aegypti cell culture
Abstract. Wolbachia is an intracellular endosymbiont of insects that inhibits the replication of a range of pathogens in its arthropod hosts. The release o
4) Emergence (or not) of resistance mutations in dengue virus against Wolbachia-induced inhibition
doi.org/10.1093/ve/v...
I'm excited to bring in a virus ecology spin into my research and I'm looking forward to meeting new colleagues in the virus evolution and microbial ecology spaces!
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03.03.2025 12:59 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Group leader at the Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging of Nice (IRCAN)
CNRS, Inserm, University Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
https://ircan.org/en/research/gael-cristofari
Repetitive DNA, Reverse transcriptases, Retrotransposons, Genomics
#transposon
PhD graduate assistant at the University of Nevada, Reno studying chemically mediated plant - caterpillar - natural enemy interactions ๐ฑ๐๐ชฐ๐ฆ
(she/hers)
writer | dancer | philomath
Ecology & Evolution of Infection Dynamics lab, Edinburgh, UK https://pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/
Postdoc | @David Berger @Uppsala University | Ecologist | #heatwaves #fertility #adaptation | BS-MS @IISERMohali @NG Prasad | PhD @UZH_ch @Stefan Lupold | ๐ฎ๐ณโก๏ธ๐จ๐ญโก๏ธ๐ธ๐ช
Research Scientist @UCD ๐ฎ๐ช Stromal cell biology, lung injury/repair, trained immunity, infection and fibrosis #ILD #stromalimmunology #immunoSky ๐ซ
Research in insect diseases and immunity @inrae-dgimi.bsky.social in Montpellier, France ๐ ๐ฆ ๐
Coastal birds #conservation @birdlifeoz.bsky.social
https://birdlife.org.au/programs/beach-nesting-birds
Managing @birdlifehoodie.bsky.social
#RStats enthusiast | #PloverLover | #PhD on Little Penguins foraging ecology | Always welcome ๐ถ and ๐ pics
Medium-sized mammal. Interested in disease vectors & #VBDs ๐ฆ๐ท๏ธ๐ชฐ, #immunology, #GlobalHealth and #SciComm. Center Manager @civia-aarhus.bsky.socialโฌ, previously Partnerships Manager for @globalvectorhub.bsky.social atโฌ @lshtm.bsky.socialโฌ.
Currently working on picornaviruses and influenza at Vignuzzi lab l A*STAR National Science Scholar l Incoming DPhil student at University of Oxford
Evolutionary Virologist based at the University of Tokyo ๐ฏ๐ต
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Post-doc (D.V.M.) ๐ฏ๐ต. My interests๐ Arbovirus ๐ฆ | Mosquito and tick ๐ฆ | Zoonosis ๐ | Dance, Capoeira, Mts. ๐๐คธโฐ๏ธ | 2021- Institut Pasteur
biodiversity scientist | ecologist | science communicator & educator
based in Berlin, DE
posts in EN and DE, occassionally in ES
https://linktr.ee/gkalinkat
Scientist, cyclist and lover of the sea
UC Berkeley Postdoc interested in the ecological and evolutionary impacts of bacteria-phage interactions.
Assistant Professor at Mercer University focuses on virus-mosquito interactions ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ง๐น๐ผ
Evolutionary microbiologist. Head of lab at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Microbial diversity, systematics, and evolution. Phylogenomics, Tree of Life.
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-biology-of-the-microbial-cell/
Unitรฉ mixte de recherche Universitรฉ de Tours & CNRS. Tours, France
We study insect science with an integrative approach that combines evolutionary biology, chemistry, behavior, ecology, genomics, physics, and physiology.
#NewPI @UIC (Jan 2026)
Studying Host-Symbiont-Virus Interactions in ๐ชฐ and ๐ฆ
#Wolbachia #Spermatogenesis #Embryogenesis #ChromatinBiology #Epigenetics #Microscopy
She/her
We work on planetary problems. Currently: counting climate change-related deaths; pandemic risk assessment in a changing biosphere; data, science, and vaccine access during public health emergencies. ๐ carlsonlab.bio
