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Alison Blanton

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Explorer of wide worlds—both vast 🗺 and microscopic 🦠🧫 | Microbial Ecologist | Insects, symbiosis, microbial metabolism

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Very excited to announce that I will be joining the lab of Fredrik Bäckhed's lab at Sahlgrenska Academy in Göteborg, Sweden this fall as a postdoc! Couldn't be more excited to start this new chapter! Here's to new beginnings, and hello to all my European friends and my best to my American ones 🤗

15.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you to the University of Gothenburg and the Bäckhed lab for hosting me last week! It was lovely getting to know all of you, chat science and explore your beautiful city!

29.05.2025 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dover Cliffs and Sky 💙☁️🌤

20.05.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After over a decade of late nights, graduations, conferences, published papers, and excessive caffeine consumption, I am finally Dr. Alison Blanton 🎊🥂👩‍🔬 8/5/25

17.05.2025 05:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another year, another adventure at KEW in London!😊

14.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Derivatives of Plant Hormones Could Control Colorado Potato Beetles To manage the Colorado potato beetle, growth-regulating plant hormones known as "elicitors" could be a tool for "push-pull" and trap-cropping IPM strategies.

In the effort to outrace insecticide resistance in Colorado potato beetles, a new study evaluates using growth-regulating plant hormones known as "elicitors" to affect beetles' behavior—a potential tool for use in "push-pull" and trap-cropping IPM strategies.

07.03.2025 20:45 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle Symbiotic microbes play pivotal roles in insect ecology, including the detoxification of insecticides, reducing target host mortality and diminishes the efficacy of chemical pest control agents. Quant...

New preprint just launched on bioRxiv. Very excited! Thank you to the Ravenscraft/Armstrong labs for your years of support!

Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle doi.org/10.1101/2025...

06.03.2025 04:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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