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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 10d

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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Julian F. Hillyer @vandybugs.bsky.social · 11d

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...

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Aug 1

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!

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

This work is the result of a multi year effort in collaboration with @lahonderelab.bsky.social , Lauren Childs, Michael Robert, James Weger-Lucarelli and their students, from @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social VT Mathematics and the Vet School at @virginiatech.bsky.social

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨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...

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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · Jun 17

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... 🧪

Thermal tolerance of Aedes aegypti mosquito eggs is associated with urban adaptation and human interactions

Climate change will profoundly affect mosquito distributions and their ability to serve as vectors for disease, specifically with the anticipated incr…

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Apr 4

Same.

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

Julien Devilliers @juliendevilliers.bsky.social · Mar 27

Glad to announce I joined the @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social lab this week! More work on mosquitoes and sensory system to come 🦟

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Feb 25

Woohhoo!!! Congrats!

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Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · Feb 22

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...

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Chloé Lahondère @lahonderelab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Giving Day is almost there! Initiatives around Global Climate Change need more support than ever! Please consider donating to the @globalchangevt.bsky.social tomorrow!

Global Change Center at Virginia Tech @globalchangevt.bsky.social · Feb 17

⏳ #VTGivingDay starts THIS Wednesday at noon!

Join us Feb 19-20 to support the GCC and drive real-world solutions through innovative environmental research, impactful education, and community outreach. 🌍💡

Share and stay tuned for how you can help!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

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mbonizzoni.bsky.social @mbonizzoni.bsky.social · Feb 4

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

Prolonged exposure to heat enhances mosquito tolerance to viral infection

Communications Biology - Single versus multi-generational exposure to increased temperature alters mosquito immune response to viral infection, with implications for mosquito-virus interactions...

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Michael Robert (he/him) @marobert.bsky.social · Feb 1

turns out several climate-change based NSF programs have been archived.

new.nsf.gov/focus-areas/...

Climate

Learn how NSF invests in research to understand the Earth's climate, including climate change and its impacts on nature and society.

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Chloé Lahondère @lahonderelab.bsky.social · Jan 29

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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Jan 29

Well done!

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Jan 5

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!

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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · Jan 5

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"

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Chloé Lahondère @lahonderelab.bsky.social · Dec 10

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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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Dec 13

Congratulations!!

Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Dec 13

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!

Martin Dessart @mdessart.bsky.social · Nov 30

I'm thrilled to announce that I've recently started a postdoc position at Virginia Tech, joining the @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social lab to continue diving into the fascinating world of mosquito behaviour! I'm enthusiastic to collaborate with a talented team and do exciting research on 🦟 🦟 🦟

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thank you!

Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hi Lena, could I please join? Thank you!

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Clement Vinauger @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social · Nov 13

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!

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