Galleria mellonella Research Centre

Galleria mellonella rearing manual Developed by the Galleria Mellonella Research Centre at the University of Exeter, to support consistent, reliable and reproducible insect husbandry.

@gmrc.bsky.social has published its rearing manual online: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Reviewed by the NC3Rs and other external experts, this resource supports consistent, reliable and reproducible insect husbandry and empowers institutions to adopt wax moth larvae as a partial replacement model.

RESOURCES At GMRC, we are committed to enabling others to adopt this important partial-replacement model organism within their own institutions. We are therefore pleased to share our  Galleria mellonella...

🐛 Happy New Year from GMRC 🐛

We’re pleased to be able to release our Galleria mellonella rearing manual (externally reviewed), now available on our website: www.gmrcuk.org/resources

Interested in adopting this fantastic partial-replacement model organism? Get in touch!

✉️ gmrc@exeter.ac.uk

#3Rs

Galleria mellonella larva, source: Wikimedia Commons

❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN @ncn.gov.pl project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗
💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines:
🧬 immunology
🦠 microbiology
🧪 molecular biology
🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics
🔗 tinyurl.com/4uynmj75

And it’s day one of #MothsOnTour with @gmrc.bsky.social at #BSI25!!

If you’re moth curious, come chat to either me, @jenniesc.bsky.social or Prof Wakefield about the #Galleriamellonella 3Rs in vivo model and see what it’s all about with the wiggly 🐛🐛

Now published as version of record at @elife.bsky.social !

Layers of Immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response. The tools are now deposited in the VDRC (link ⬇️)

elifesciences.org/articles/107...
shop.vbc.ac.at/vdrc_store/d...

#Drosophila #IDsky #SymbioSky #Infection #Immunology

Characterising the Multiple‐Plastic Degrading Strain of Bacillus subtilis GM_03 From the Galleria mellonella Microbiome A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis has been isolated from plastic-fed Galleria mellonella larvae, which shows evidence of degradation of both LDPE and PU plastics. Genes potentially associated with ....

Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome

👇

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our final talk is from @doktorbasti.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk on the scalable imaging platform is developing to automate health and mortality scoring during microbial virulence assays #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

hopefully galleria users can celebrate the end of hourly galleria poking sessions

Next a presentation from Toby Jenkins and Simon Booth from @uniofbath.bsky.social on their work using lasers to improve the Galleria burn wound infection model originally developed by @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

@cjcoates.bsky.social from @universityofgalway.bsky.social and @swanseauni.bsky.social gives us an overview on Galleria as an aspirant toxicology model for shellfish poisoning syndrome #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

After the first break we have Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy from PEVITAC @uniofreading.bsky.social on their advances in toxicological and antimicrobial testing using Galleria #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

Next up is @jenniesc.bsky.social of @exeter.ac.uk / @gmrc.bsky.social giving an overview of the Galleria mellonella Research Centre activities! #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

The 2025 Galleria mellonella Workshop is off to a start at Edge Hill University, with an opening talk on the Galleria Envenoming Model from @rachelhclare.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025

🚨 Last chance to register for GMW 2025 🚨

📆 15 Sept • Edge Hill Uni, UK
👩‍🔬 Host: Dr Rachel Clare

Talks from Prof Khutoryanskiy, Dr Coates, Prof Jenkins & Simon Booth, Dr Bruchmann + practical training (rearing, injections, dissections).

⭐ FREE registration closes 1 Sept: shorturl.at/C5GWW

⭐The Full Schedule for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is Live!🐛

🗓️ Date: 15th September
📍 Location: Edge Hill University
🔗 Register (free!) by the 29th August: shorturl.at/q6tXr

💬 Open to all researchers working with or curious about Galleria mellonella.
#GMW2025 #GalleriaMellonella #3Rs

New transgenics loading — watch this space 🐛👀
#GalleriaMellonella #Transgenesis #Microinjection

🐛 Research-grade Galleria mellonella — hand-picked for researchers, BY researchers!

Planning experiments for Sept/Oct? Get in touch now!

✅ In-house reared, no antimicrobial additives
✅ Hand-selected for quality
✅ +10% extra to cover in-transit loss
✅ Flexible shipping options

📩 gmrc@exeter.ac.uk

🧬 Does anyone know if the new amplifier sequences for HCR™ Gold RNA-FISH are available anywhere? Trying to track them down to plug into the code I have to generate probes in place of the old B1/B2... sequences.

#HCR #MolecularBiology #RNAFISH #FISH

Insects as Food and Feed (SIG) 2025 - Royal Entomological Society Insects as Food and Feed: delivering sustainable protein to the food system Date: Thursday 9th October 2025 (09:15 – 16:30) Venue: Elm Grove Conference Centre, The University of Roehampton: Home – Roe...

Join @royentsoc.bsky.social for Insects as Food and Feed

📅9th October
📍University of Roehampton

www.royensoc.co.uk/event/iaff25/

Covering insect protein nutrition, formulation and the UK/EU landscape it's shaping up to be a fascinating day following #BSFCon in September🎉

Logo of the 20th International Xenopus Conference.

Are you attending the 20th International Xenopus Conference in August? 🐸

Esther Pearl (@drejpearl.bsky.social) will be sharing our work and resources relevant to research involving Xenopus, including improving experimental design and refining husbandry practices: nc3rs.org.uk/events/20th-...

📝Call for papers📝

I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis.

Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible)

If interested, get in touch!

#FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025 Please register for free here:  https://shorturl.at/q6tXr . The  Galleria mellonella  Workshop returns for 2025 and will be held at  Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK  and will be hosted by ...

🐛 Speaker 3 for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is here!

🎤 Prof. Toby Jenkins (Uni of Bath) with "Development of an improved Galleria mellonella burn model for studying burn wound infection"

📍 Edge Hill Uni, Ormskirk – Mon 15 Sept 2025

🔗 Info & sign-up: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025 We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...

🎤 Pleased to confirm our second speaker for GMW2025: @cjcoates.bsky.social, who will join us from University of Galway, Ireland with a talk titled:

⭐ Interrogating Galleria mellonella larvae as an aspirant toxicology model

🐛 Sign up here: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...

Yes, Galleria don't require any manipulation to eat plastic. It's something they have evolved to do by virtue of living in an environment with beeswax

Back from Kolymbari, and had such an amazing time with an incredible community of lepidopterists #lepgencrete. Great to get the opportunity to talk about what we're up to with @gmrc.bsky.social and spread the word about the #galleriamellonella infection model. Can't wait for #lepgen13 in 2028!

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025 We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...

🌟Excited to announce our first speaker for GMW2025

🎤Prof. Khutoryanskiy (www.pevitac.co.uk) will join us with a talk on:

“Galleria mellonella in Toxicology & Antimicrobial Evaluation: A PEVITAC Perspective on Scientific & Commercial Impact”

🐛Info: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonella-workshop-2025

Quickly coming up next though is a return to Greece - this time to Crete for the 12th International workshop on Molecular Biology and Genetics of Lepidoptera! Bit of a mouthful to say, but i'll be giving a talk on the mothy things we have going on with #Galleriamellonella at the @gmrc.bsky.social 🐛

📦Galleria on the move!
We label each dish with larval count + total weight. Safely packed and sent 1st class.

Need high-quality, research-grade Galleria mellonella larvae for reliable, reproducible in vivo experiments? Lets chat! 🐛🔬

#GalleriaMellonella #Microbiology #Infection #ScienceSupply

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025 We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...

We are pleased to announce that the Galleria Mellonella Workshop will be running again this year.

The event will take place on Monday the 15th of September at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, UK and will be hosted by @rachelhclare.bsky.social

🐛 Please join us! 🐛

www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...

🧪🍻 From pests to pioneers — and pint glasses!

I had a great time talking about Galleria mellonella at Pint of Science, Exeter last night.

Turns out, The Very Hungry Caterpillar saw it coming… 🐛✨
#PintOfScience #Pint25 #NC3Rs #GalleriaMellonella #ScienceInThePub