Very happy to share this study of the geographic variation in the chemical profiles of Heliconius butterflies! Thank you to everyone involved in this collaboration :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

My first ever paper is out now in GigaScience! 🎉Thank you all for a wonderful collaboration Shane McCarthy @mel_rosina Richard Durbin @JohannaMappes Juan Galarza Tom Generalovic Sarah Pelan Petr Nguyen Joana Meier & Ian Warren

Going to live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire tonight between 6 and 7 pm GMT (probably closer to 7pm) with The Naked Scientists - talking about nematodes (obviously😁) and other plant diseases as part of a program on plants and climate change Link to listen live: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

It is my first time doing a long fieldwork, but things are going really well. Very pleased that we finished the collections in PE. Next stop PB and RN . Thanks a lot João Carlos and @MSCActions, and the collaborators LABBOR and LEEB-UFRN for making this possible!

Fieldwork is done! I am very grateful to the local experts that took many risks to collect plants and butterflies with me: Larissa Santos, Ananda Silva e Renato Ramos. Also to my husband Delanno Alves that became an amazing butterfly catcher in the past 2 months.

Downregulation of Extraembryonic Tension Controls Body Axis Formation in Avian Embryos biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

The toxicity of these butterflies is such a complex trait. So much intraspecific variation! Well done,Anniina Mattila!

This is the best meme ever! I love it!

A #scicom piece I wrote for Deccan Herald based on the insightful work by Erika de Castro @mel_rosina et al. They showed host plant driven chem defence plasticity in Heliconius and that biosynthesis comes at a cost for a specialist but not in a generalist. bit.ly/2WyWCTT

Stop bla, bla action now - "The earth is speaking, she tells us that we have no more time" neidinha surui #PL490NÃO @BitateW Txai Suruí . Para Yvoty 🪶 #indigenous #indigenousbrazil #COP26 #brazil #urueuwauwau #suruipeople

Very excited to share our study on the genomics of adaptation to altitude in Heliconius. Thankful to everyone that made it possible: @mel_rosina Simon Martin Joana Meier Nicola Nadeau salazar.camilo NICOL RUEDA Caroline Bacquet

I feel sick after reading this. I'm sure many STRI scientists feel the same. I'm horrified by what I didn't know, but I'm also horrified by what I did know. We owe a huge debt to the women who spoke up for this article. buzzfeednews.com/article/nishit…

Very happy to share my new paper "Host status of eucalypt species to Pratylenchus brachyurus and Meloidogyne incognita". We check the reproduction of these two nematodes in the main sp of eucalypts. Feel free to check it out 😀 scielo.br/j/aib/a/6XX7Wz…

Took a spin in this lovely motor yesterday @ZipcarUK - turns out she's a bit of a poser!!! Thanks to Waddesdon Manor Learning for a fantastic day with Thomas Hickman School #Aylesbury and brilliant #entomologists Erika de Castro and the team from Dept of Zoology

Meet Erika de Castro - our Research Associate 🧪 Érika is a chemical ecologist studying the impact of our insect feed on animals. 🌱 Want to join our Biology team? See available roles here: bit.ly/3t5ctG9. #hiring #research #biotech

Featuring, among others, Erika de Castro Dr. Anyi Mazo-Vargas @SVBelleghem Joe Hanly Elizabeth Evans @mel_rosina @evolvwing (with apologies to those I missed)

Looking for a postdoc and interested in the effects of chromosome fusions and fissions and other rearrangements on speciation? Apply to join my lab at @SangerToL at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK for 3 y. Lots of genome assemblies to study. jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

Our pre-print is out - showing that effect of pollen-deprivation on fertility, weight and toxicity of H. erato butterflies is sex- and age-specific (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). Huge thanks to my co-authors Josie, Glennis, Anniina Mattila, Søren Bak, Stephen Montgomery & @mel_rosina!

We discovered multiple sex-autosome fusions in the sara/sapho clade of Heliconius butterflies.

It was an absolute pleasure to present at the Royal Entomological Society Student Forum 2023! Amazing people, fabulous talks, and such cool research! Thank you very much to Ava Searles vio_kaunath 🐝🦋🐛 Ayman Asiri and Royal Entomological Society !!! Dept of Zoology Insect Biomechanics Lab Erika de Castro @mel_rosina