New preprint out from our semi-field work in Ghana: lnkd.in/gv7qawvK An. gambiae biting time is shaped by the nutritional status. 'Hungry' #mosquitoes (blue, fed on .5% sugar) bite earlier then well fed animals (red, 10% sugar + prior blood meal) Highlights biting times is complex phenomenon.

Come visit Notre Dame this summer for our next VectorByte workshop.

New preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Data curated for VectorBase project for curating datasets from Africa (sites.nd.edu/samuel-rund/... ). Exciting to see the ways data from disparate sources can be brought together and used in new ways.

Made it to beautiful Puerto Rico for Mondays' start of the American Mosquito Control Association meeting. I'm soft-launching a new project with @vectorbyte.bsky.social to collate continental-wide mosquito surveillance open data at my talk Thursday. Info at sites.nd.edu/samuel-rund/... Lets chat!

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My new paper with Daan Van der Veen. We reveal a curious ability of the An. stephensi malaria mosquito to respond to temperature cycles to adjust their daily time-of-activity. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...