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samrund.bsky.social @samrund.bsky.social · May 2

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.

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samrund.bsky.social @samrund.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

VectorByte @vectorbyte.bsky.social · Mar 26

Apply now!! Learn about modeling vector abundance, use VecDyn data to answer cool questions! June 13-16, 2025, come to the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis at Notre Dame!

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Apply Now for the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis (June 2025) — VectorByte

The VectorByte Initiative is hosting a training workshop from 13-16 June 2025, hosted on the campus of The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The three day training workshop will introdu...

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samrund.bsky.social @samrund.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

Prediction of mosquito vector abundance for three species in the Anopheles gambiae complex

Background: The dynamics of vector borne disease transmission depend on the abundances of vectors. The dominant malaria vector species complex of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato is a target of vector con...

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samrund.bsky.social @samrund.bsky.social · Mar 2

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!

Vector Population Dynamics – across the United States | Samuel Rund, Ph.D.

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samrund.bsky.social @samrund.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm one of the PIs of VectorByte project. Consider following our project page:

VectorByte @vectorbyte.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is VectorByte's first Bluesky post - we are now here for all of your vector trait and dynamics excitement!!

samrund.bsky.social @samrund.bsky.social · Jan 23

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/...

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