Responding to extreme climates #ResearchHighlights A recent study found that soil microbial communities show consistent and predictable responses to extreme climatic events. nature.com/articles/s4157…

🚨 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🚨 The Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at Mount Sinai Health System will soon be opening an exciting opportunity for a Bioinformatician in Infectious Diseases!

The mummies appear to be relics of an ancient population that disappeared in Eurasia after the last ice age—one that was ancestral to Indigenous peoples living in Siberia and the Americas today. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/4jkEEKP

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences as the theory of evolution by natural selection was for biology nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our 2025 February issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews malaria latency, parasitic-induced neuroinflammation, effects of hybridization on host–parasite interactions, British mosquito & WNV ecology, canopy-level entomological surveillance, gut single-cell eukaryote research, &more

Thrilled to share the first high-quality reference genome of Panstrongylus geniculatus, a key vector of T. cruzi, linked to oral Chagas disease outbreaks in Colombia and Venezuela URosario @fcn_ur CIMBIUR Wellcome Sanger Institute University of Glasgow Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-43

Domestication shortened the faces of cats and dogs, and some breeds have dramatically short faces. A genetic study finds similar evolutionary pathways in canines and felines, in a case of convergent evolution. In PNAS; ow.ly/T3z550VKLOj

Our 2025 May issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews arthropod vector immunology, anti-mosquito salivary antibodies, arthropod peritrophic matrix, identity-by-descent for malaria surveillance, Entamoeba genetic tools, visualizing parasite lifecycle, γδTcells in leishmaniasis. &more

Newly developed structure-based methods do not outperform standard sequence-based methods for large-scale phylogenomics academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Molecular Biology and Evolution

Tenemos una cita muy importante en Cartagena Colombia el próximo año del 27 al 30 de Octubre. No se pierdan los detalles de este evento de alta calidad científica en los próximos días!

Vector of the Month: #Hyalomma #marginatum, the Mediterranean Hyalomma, a two-host #tick transmitting pathogens to #humans & #livestock in the Palearctic, authored by Dr Agustin Estrada-Peña. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lNPB5Eb1xN6…

New paper out! 🧬 We reconstructed the phylogeny of the Triatoma sordida subcomplex across its full distribution using molecular and cytogenetic approaches. Proud to share this work with Gabi Burgueño and an amazing team! 📄 memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br/article/11082/…

🔬 ¿Sabías que el VPH también está ligado a cáncer en cabeza y cuello? 🧬Nuestra nueva investigación demostró que la tecnología Oxford Nanopore identifica con precisión el virus en distintos tejidos. Alta sensibilidad y gran reproducibilidad. #VPH #Ciencia #OxfordNanopore #Salud

Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

Hidden passengers: expanding the RNA virosphere of trypanosomatids dlvr.it/TQVWq0