Clement Vinauger

Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

New paper from the lab! When a mosquito ingests blood, the phagocytic activity of hemocytes increases with warmer environmental temperature and aging @vanderbilt.edu @vuartsci.bsky.social @evolutionvu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

Adaline Bisese, recipient of a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, represented the lab and @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium yesterday. Stay tuned for exciting results on how mosquitoes choose where to land on our bodies!

This work is the result of a multi year effort in collaboration with @lahonderelab.bsky.social , Lauren Childs, Michael Robert, James Weger-Lucarelli and their students, from @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social VT Mathematics and the Vet School at @virginiatech.bsky.social

🚨New preprint from the lab! Work led by our talented former postdoc @karthikeyanc.bsky.social where we show that incomplete larval control can make things worse by producing bigger and meaner adult mosquitoes that are more efficient vectors of Zika. See thread below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thermal tolerance of Aedes aegypti mosquito eggs is associated with urban adaptation and human interactions Climate change will profoundly affect mosquito distributions and their ability to serve as vectors for disease, specifically with the anticipated incr…

Interesting study! How the thermal tolerance of Aedes mosquito eggs varies depending on urbanisation - shows how critical developmental periods can facilitate adaptation to novel environments. Work from Souvik Chakraborty, @joshuabenoit.bsky.social & others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

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The lab is super excited to welcome @juliendevilliers.bsky.social as a new postdoc! Stay tuned for studies to come on mosquito olfactory rhythms and chemical ecology. @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social @vtcals.bsky.social

Woohhoo!!! Congrats!

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Giving Day is almost there! Initiatives around Global Climate Change need more support than ever! Please consider donating to the @globalchangevt.bsky.social tomorrow!

Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Prolonged exposure to heat enhances mosquito tolerance to viral infection Communications Biology - Single versus multi-generational exposure to increased temperature alters mosquito immune response to viral infection, with implications for mosquito-virus interactions...

Do you want to know if global warming will impact how mosquito respond to viral infection? check our latest publication in Communications Biology rdcu.be/d8wse

Climate Learn how NSF invests in research to understand the Earth's climate, including climate change and its impacts on nature and society.

turns out several climate-change based NSF programs have been archived.

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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

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Well done!

Today at #scib2025, our lab tech Spruha Rami presented her exciting work recording the neural activity of the antennal lobe during mosquito sleep! Stay tuned for more from this work!

attn #SICB2025! a tech from my lab, Wayne Kuo, will be presenting a poster on fly landing! Find out how flies use mechanosensory info to decide when and how to land. Now soliciting names for our assay...we're currently calling it the Hokie Pokie

P4-67 on Tues Jan 7, part of "Flying and vision"

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

Congratulations!!

The lab is super excited to welcome @mdessart.bsky.social as a new postdoc fellow! Stay tuned for the work to come on mosquito sensory ecology and chronobiology. Welcome, Martin!

Thank you!

Hi Lena, could I please join? Thank you!

Great to see our former postdoc —now Assist. Prof. @ UC Riverside — Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran at the ESA meeting in Phoenix, AZ! His lab is recruiting at the graduate level. Reach out if you’re interested!

And the companion study on Aedes aegypti led by
the Benoit Lab is now available:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stay tuned for a companion study led by the Benoit Lab, in which we compared multiple lines of Aedes aegypti and found similar differences! In the lab, work led by former Ph.D. student Nicole Wynne.

New preprint in collaboration with Josh Benoit's group,
@lahonderelab.bsky.social and Mariangela Bonizzoni. We compared the activity and sleep profiles of multiple strains of Aedes albopictus and found some differences influenced by their geographic origin. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our newest paper on Aedes mosquito thermal biology now out in Global Change Biology! 🦟🌡️ Great collaboration with the Bonizzoni lab! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mosquito feeding on a wild flower (Virginia, USA).

Check out our newest paper on mosquito sugar feeding! This study led by PhD student Forde Upshur shows that mosquitoes, including invasive species such as Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, feed on a very wide range of wild & ornamental plants, and can obtain carbs throughout the season rdcu.be/dtwJO