📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬 Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨ Key findings in thread below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉✨👏 Welcome to a new academic year in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health! We’re excited to continue learning, collaborating, and advancing public health together.

Very happy to have @entomososwin.bsky.social's thesis work finally published! Becky has been having an incredible month! parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

At Yale School of Public Health, research starts with people. From AI and youth mental health to national medical billing reform, this is public health with national reach. bit.ly/3J1ekY7 @meganranney.bsky.social @chantalvogels.bsky.social

Thrilled to be a part of this study on Wolbachia and multiple blood feeding. Now published! rdcu.be/eyqaG

Our first Wolbachia paper now published in Nature Communications! 🦟 Check out Becky's thread! 👇

Excited to share our paper on viral load dynamics of West Nile virus in mosquitoes! Key findings: 1. Variation in pooled Ct values from mosquito traps reflect underlying biological and epidemiological mechanisms. 2. WNV prevalence estimates are improved by using Cts rather than +ve/-ve pool status.

Despite all the shit going on, we have to celebrate our victories. New publication with @entomososwin.bsky.social and @vectorimmunity.bsky.social showing that hemocytes play a central role in disseminating flaviviruses to secondary tissues potentially functioning as a Trojan Horse(TBD) rdcu.be/euj4g

What @edmhill.bsky.social said!!!👇

Come and join the @mossi-lab.bsky.social group! We have a postdoc position available on Wolbachia and Anopheles interactions. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

🥳📢 Student Spotlight Alert! Afeez Sodeinde, a PhD student in the Vogels and Grubaugh Labs, studies how dengue evolves and how Wolbachia impacts the virus. His work shows that we need tailored vector control strategies, not one-size-fits-all. 👉 Learn more here: medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

🥳📢 Student Spotlight Alert! Meet Nicole Feriancek, a PhD student in the Vogels and Grubaugh Labs, sequencing over 3,000 West Nile virus samples in Connecticut. Her work tracks how the virus spreads and evolves across the state. 👉 Learn more here: medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

The Sorrells Lab is hiring a recent college graduate interested in neurobiology of mosquitoes! The position is ideal for someone interested in gaining skills for graduate school. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164849

🦟 "Effect of #chikungunya, #Mayaro and #Una #virus coinfection on #vector competence of #Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes" by Tessa Visser, @chantalvogels.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In Connecticut - NIH FUNDING: $770M JOBS SUPPORTED: 6609 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $1.68B

📢New preprint! We studied the impact of successive feeding on inhibition of dengue virus by Wolbachia Key finding: mosquito feeding behavior matters, but Wolbachia remains effective🦟🦠 Study led by @entomososwin.bsky.social and Mallery Breban www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting news out of Yale EMD to round off the week! The Global Virus Network has added Yale University as a new Center of Excellence, co-led by EMD Assistant Professor @chantalvogels.bsky.social along with our friends from the School of Medicine: David Martinez, Inci Yildirim and Craig Wilen

GVN expands with four new Centers of Excellence, boosting our network’s innovation and scientific expertise in combating viral threats while training the next generation of virologists. #PandemicPreparedness gvn.org/gvn-adds-fou... @dukemedschool.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social @yale.edu

Fancy some light Christmas reading? I’m happy to share our new preprint, covering the impact and cutting edge improvements to PrimalScheme! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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! 🦟🦠🪰

The WHO Director-General, agreeing with the advice of the IHR Emergency Committee, has determined that the upsurge of #mpox continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

So here is a Wolbachia starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to join or have other suggestions. go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB

Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU

📢 Closing soon - Postdoc position in my group at Yale! Please apply if you are interested in using innovative experimental approaches and genomics to study dengue virus ecology and evolution 🦟🦠🧬 vogelslab.com/2024/05/30/w...