Check out this new preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Lan Lou, @juliendevilliers.bsky.social, @karthikeyanc.bsky.social, @lahonderelab.bsky.social, the Tu Lab, and @joshuabenoit.bsky.social show that mosquito olfactory rhythms are synced with daily rhythms in how we smell.

If you are attending #EntSoc25 in Portland, Check out the work of Sydney Luff and @mdessart.bsky.social who are representing the lab at the meeting!

Excited to see this story published from a great collaboration and support from the Global Change Center at @virginiatech.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social

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!

🚨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...

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... 🧪

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

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!

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

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

turns out several climate-change based NSF programs have been archived. new.nsf.gov/focus-areas/...

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! 🦟🦠🪰

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!

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!

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/...

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

Our paper is now out in Science! Led by Jeremy Chan, we find that atmospheric pollutants negatively impact plant-pollinator interactions. A fantastic collaboration with Joel Thornton and others. www.science.org/content/arti...