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Galleria mellonella Research Centre
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Research centre focussing on all things related to the wax moth, Galleria mellonella. Find us at https://www.gmrcuk.org/ or get in touch at [email protected]

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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · Jun 18
We are pleased to announce that the Galleria Mellonella Workshop will be running again this year.

The event will take place on Monday the 15th of September at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, UK and will be hosted by @rachelhclare.bsky.social

🐛 Please join us! 🐛

www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...
GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...
www.gmrcuk.org
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mizpas.bsky.social
❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN @ncn.gov.pl project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗
💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines:
🧬 immunology
🦠 microbiology
🧪 molecular biology
🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics
🔗 tinyurl.com/4uynmj75
Galleria mellonella larva, source: Wikimedia Commons
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
And it’s day one of #MothsOnTour with @gmrc.bsky.social at #BSI25!!

If you’re moth curious, come chat to either me, @jenniesc.bsky.social or Prof Wakefield about the #Galleriamellonella 3Rs in vivo model and see what it’s all about with the wiggly 🐛🐛
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
Now published as version of record at @elife.bsky.social !

Layers of Immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response. The tools are now deposited in the VDRC (link ⬇️)

elifesciences.org/articles/107...
shop.vbc.ac.at/vdrc_store/d...

#Drosophila #IDsky #SymbioSky #Infection #Immunology
eLife Assessment This work provides one of the first important attempts to look at Drosophila immune responses against bacterial, viral, and fungal pathogens in a way that combines the roles of four major arms in immunity (Imd signaling, Toll signaling, phagocytosis, and melanization) rather than studying them separately. The findings are compelling and the tools provided can be used as they are, or built upon, in various contexts. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.107030.3.sa0 Figure 1 validating the mutations used Figure 3 summarising the survival results from a 14-genotype 25-pathogen panel. Tracking of mortality and pathogen growth over time, complemented by Figure 5 (not shown) looking at pathogen load upon death.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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flamycain.bsky.social
Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome

👇

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Characterising the Multiple‐Plastic Degrading Strain of Bacillus subtilis GM_03 From the Galleria mellonella Microbiome
A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis has been isolated from plastic-fed Galleria mellonella larvae, which shows evidence of degradation of both LDPE and PU plastics. Genes potentially associated with ....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
Our final talk is from @doktorbasti.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk on the scalable imaging platform is developing to automate health and mortality scoring during microbial virulence assays #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
September 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
hopefully galleria users can celebrate the end of hourly galleria poking sessions
September 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
Next a presentation from Toby Jenkins and Simon Booth from @uniofbath.bsky.social on their work using lasers to improve the Galleria burn wound infection model originally developed by @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
September 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
@cjcoates.bsky.social from @universityofgalway.bsky.social and @swanseauni.bsky.social gives us an overview on Galleria as an aspirant toxicology model for shellfish poisoning syndrome #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
September 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
After the first break we have Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy from PEVITAC @uniofreading.bsky.social on their advances in toxicological and antimicrobial testing using Galleria #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
September 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
Next up is @jenniesc.bsky.social of @exeter.ac.uk / @gmrc.bsky.social giving an overview of the Galleria mellonella Research Centre activities! #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
The 2025 Galleria mellonella Workshop is off to a start at Edge Hill University, with an opening talk on the Galleria Envenoming Model from @rachelhclare.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
September 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
gmrc.bsky.social
🚨 Last chance to register for GMW 2025 🚨

📆 15 Sept • Edge Hill Uni, UK
👩‍🔬 Host: Dr Rachel Clare

Talks from Prof Khutoryanskiy, Dr Coates, Prof Jenkins & Simon Booth, Dr Bruchmann + practical training (rearing, injections, dissections).

⭐ FREE registration closes 1 Sept: shorturl.at/C5GWW
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
gmrc.bsky.social
⭐The Full Schedule for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is Live!🐛

🗓️ Date: 15th September
📍 Location: Edge Hill University
🔗 Register (free!) by the 29th August: shorturl.at/q6tXr

💬 Open to all researchers working with or curious about Galleria mellonella.
#GMW2025 #GalleriaMellonella #3Rs
August 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
gmrc.bsky.social
New transgenics loading — watch this space 🐛👀
#GalleriaMellonella #Transgenesis #Microinjection
August 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
gmrc.bsky.social
🐛 Research-grade Galleria mellonella — hand-picked for researchers, BY researchers!

Planning experiments for Sept/Oct? Get in touch now!

✅ In-house reared, no antimicrobial additives
✅ Hand-selected for quality
✅ +10% extra to cover in-transit loss
✅ Flexible shipping options

📩 [email protected]
August 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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jenniesc.bsky.social
🧬 Does anyone know if the new amplifier sequences for HCR™ Gold RNA-FISH are available anywhere? Trying to track them down to plug into the code I have to generate probes in place of the old B1/B2... sequences.

#HCR #MolecularBiology #RNAFISH #FISH
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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jess-stokes.bsky.social
Join @royentsoc.bsky.social for Insects as Food and Feed

📅9th October
📍University of Roehampton

www.royensoc.co.uk/event/iaff25/

Covering insect protein nutrition, formulation and the UK/EU landscape it's shaping up to be a fascinating day following #BSFCon in September🎉
Insects as Food and Feed (SIG) 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
Insects as Food and Feed: delivering sustainable protein to the food system Date: Thursday 9th October 2025 (09:15 – 16:30) Venue: Elm Grove Conference Centre, The University of Roehampton: Home – Roe...
www.royensoc.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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nc3rs.bsky.social
Are you attending the 20th International Xenopus Conference in August? 🐸

Esther Pearl (@drejpearl.bsky.social) will be sharing our work and resources relevant to research involving Xenopus, including improving experimental design and refining husbandry practices: nc3rs.org.uk/events/20th-...
Logo of the 20th International Xenopus Conference.
July 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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seanaduggan.bsky.social
📝Call for papers📝

I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis.

Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible)

If interested, get in touch!

#FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases
Fungal Pathogenesis: Mechanisms, Resistance, and Threats | Microbiology Society
Fungi are a major global health concern, responsible for over a billion infections annually and an estimated 1.5 million deaths each year. Despite their substantial impact on human health and healthca...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
gmrc.bsky.social
🐛 Speaker 3 for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is here!

🎤 Prof. Toby Jenkins (Uni of Bath) with "Development of an improved Galleria mellonella burn model for studying burn wound infection"

📍 Edge Hill Uni, Ormskirk – Mon 15 Sept 2025

🔗 Info & sign-up: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...
GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
Please register for free here:  https://shorturl.at/q6tXr . The  Galleria mellonella  Workshop returns for 2025 and will be held at  Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK  and will be hosted by ...
www.gmrcuk.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
gmrc.bsky.social
🎤 Pleased to confirm our second speaker for GMW2025: @cjcoates.bsky.social, who will join us from University of Galway, Ireland with a talk titled:

⭐ Interrogating Galleria mellonella larvae as an aspirant toxicology model

🐛 Sign up here: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...
GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...
www.gmrcuk.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
Back from Kolymbari, and had such an amazing time with an incredible community of lepidopterists #lepgencrete. Great to get the opportunity to talk about what we're up to with @gmrc.bsky.social and spread the word about the #galleriamellonella infection model. Can't wait for #lepgen13 in 2028!
July 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
gmrc.bsky.social
🌟Excited to announce our first speaker for GMW2025

🎤Prof. Khutoryanskiy (www.pevitac.co.uk) will join us with a talk on:

“Galleria mellonella in Toxicology & Antimicrobial Evaluation: A PEVITAC Perspective on Scientific & Commercial Impact”

🐛Info: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonella-workshop-2025
GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...
www.gmrcuk.org
July 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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jamescpearce.bsky.social
Quickly coming up next though is a return to Greece - this time to Crete for the 12th International workshop on Molecular Biology and Genetics of Lepidoptera! Bit of a mouthful to say, but i'll be giving a talk on the mothy things we have going on with #Galleriamellonella at the @gmrc.bsky.social 🐛
June 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
gmrc.bsky.social
📦Galleria on the move!
We label each dish with larval count + total weight. Safely packed and sent 1st class.

Need high-quality, research-grade Galleria mellonella larvae for reliable, reproducible in vivo experiments? Lets chat! 🐛🔬

#GalleriaMellonella #Microbiology #Infection #ScienceSupply
June 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM