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Mosquito Lab @ UBC; Vancouver, Canada
https://mosquitolab.zoology.ubc.ca
Hello from Vancouver! Dusting off the bsky credentials to highlight two new mosquito preprints from the lab... extremely proud of everyone who contributed and happy to have their work out for all to see. Lots of good stuff happening in the lab these days! More below...
10 days ago
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Sweta Agrawal
7 months ago
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!
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So cool… congrats Leah and team!
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about 1 year ago
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bioRxivpreprint
about 1 year ago
Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765v1
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mara lawniczak
about 1 year ago
globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]
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Chloé Lahondère
over 1 year ago
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! 🦟🦠🪰
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Alex Wild
over 1 year ago
Mosquitoes: the photo gallery. I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)
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Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Mosquitoes
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Katie Marshall
over 1 year ago
Congratulations to newly- minted UBC Zoology PhD graduate Dr. Jarrett Blair!
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Rory Coleman
over 1 year ago
Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
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A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - Nature
Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08028-1#citeas
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John Soghigian
over 2 years ago
Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by
@genmorinaga.bsky.social
to cap it all off!
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John Soghigian
over 2 years ago
Had a great time hosting
@benmatthewslab.bsky.social
at UCVM! A great seminar and excellent conversations. Thanks for helping us launch our new Comparative Biology and Animal Health seminar series!
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