Transgenic expression of Nix converts genetic females into males and allows automated sex sorting in Aedes albopictus ift.tt/GAibMUN

Une nouvelle étude confirme que, chez Aedes albopictus, le gène Nix est nécessaire et suffisant pour une masculinisation complète des individus et ouvre la voie au contrôle génétique des populations de moustiques | Communications Biology v/ Célia Lutrat sco.lt/7uF1ZQ

Montpelliérain.e.s, de bons plans pour cette famille devant quitter la Russie ? ✨

First thesis paper! Assumed transmission cycle of CCHFv in France🦠🇫🇷 Systematic Review on Crimean–Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Enzootic Cycle and Factors Favoring Virus Transmission: Special Focus on France, an Apparently Free-Disease Area in Europe frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Let me introduce my new study friends: Messor barbarus ants! Because summer was super hot in Montpellier this year, swarms happened a month earlier than usual. However we could catch a bunch of unmated princesses (w/ wings) and mated queens (wingless). Now, let’s play! 🧬✂️💉

A post-doc is available in Montpellier ☀️to work with Karen McCoy on the diversity, structure and circulation of infectious agents in Mediterranean Yellow-legged gulls. For more information, see here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR… Deadline for applications: 11 October

A toolbox of engineered mosquito lines to study salivary gland biology and malaria transmission ift.tt/UtcfFbj

Hey 🦟-Twitter, just to let you know that the latest version of our GSS preprint is now available, including brand new cost evaluations! Have a glance: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New genetic sexing tool to apply SIT! Congrats Célia Lutrat ! Who can guess which country will be the first to release them? 😜 nature.com/articles/s4200… Cirad IAEA NA Inserm European Research Council (ERC)

Super sexy, jaw-dropping technique to optimize SIT ! LOVE IT !!! Congrats Jérémy Bouyer and @ericmarois #love is a solution Fluorescent sexing strains to facilitate the Sterile Insect Technique in the dengue and tiger mosquitoes bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/fluoresc… #

Identification and automated sorting of male and female Aedes mosquitoes are made possible using four new transgenic sexing strains, linking fluorescence transgenes to the sex-determining (‘M’ and ‘m’) loci 🦟Célia Lutrat Jérémy Bouyer Cirad nature.com/articles/s4200…

Our new paper led by Célia Lutrat is now out in Communications Biology ! 🎉

Here we explain why we sincerely believe that this technology might be a game changer for Aedes control!

Please RT! Looking for someone to host an Argetinian postdoc from my lab HUJI Agri and her daughter. Ideally in #Germany - where they are being evacuated to. REACT Project Max Planck Society DFG ECE2023 - XII European Congress of Entomology

Ce stage est lié au projet RESTALBOC (montpellier3m.fr/actualite/mous…) qui vise à identifier les gîtes de repos préférentiellement utilisés par #Aedesalbopictus en Occitanie, et à caractériser la dynamique des structures d’âge des 🦟 présents dans ces abris/l’environnement. 2/3

EXCITING NEWS FOR MOSQUITO PEOPLE We have a new Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) genome. End-to-end chromosome assembly, deduplicated, fully annotated by NCBI RefSeq, and gorgeous. Congrats to Leah Houri-Zeevi who led the effort #VosshallLab HHMI ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom…

Dear mosquito friends, I am very happy to finally announce that I recently joined Terratis as Scientific officer in order to develop the Sterile Insect Technique in France against Aedes albopictus! 🚀🦟