Very happy to announce a step forward in the development of genetic tools for the mosquito Anopheles #funestus, the dominant vector of malaria in several regions of Africa. Introducing precise genetic changes, or transgenes 👇🏼,is really important for developing new control tools

Can you stretch to +200% your original size? No, of course you can't, you poor not-Parafilm loser

Looking forward to the in-person Kolymbari #mosquitomeeting in a few days with mara lawniczak team members Joachim Nwezeobi 🦟 & Marilou Boddé 🧬 Can’t wait to meet people I’ve only chatted to through email/zoom for the past 3 years! 💻 & keep an eye out for the comic summary!

Group photo of @MosquitoMeeting strategically shot to casually show off the view from our poster area... 😏

Thank you to the organisers of @MosquitoMeeting for letting me blather on about my recent work on the role of mosquito chemosensory proteins in insecticide resistance, and for putting up with my shameless plug of the podcast 😅 Preprints in Motion podcast #SciComm #mosquitomeeting #Mosquito

And it's a wrap folks! Thank you for all the nice words and glad you enjoyed this little comic spinoff even for a live (and not virtual) conference! Let me know if you are interested and I can upload the poster version in higher resolution for people to download 🦟🪰🦠🧬

Supervisor reading my 1st draft of the manuscript.

I’m not doing any work this weekend. Not et al.

Anopheles funestus, is an important vector species responsible for most malaria transmission in some parts of Africa, in particular the east and southern Africa region. This review by my colleague Joel Odero, PhD provides some essential details on four key research areas related to

Amazing paper just out from my lab mate Nicole using single cell RNAseq to look for some better germ line promoters in mosquitoes 👏👏👏nature.com/articles/s4200… feat Tony Nolan

🇬🇧🔬 Last week Kim Johnson Paula Barker Dr Zubir Ahmed MP Anyika Onuora IVCC and Astrid Bonfield toured the facilities at LSTM, where scientists are developing the latest tools in the fight against malaria! British-backed science is vital to eradicate malaria 💪🦟

Me in 1997 wasting time resting instead of writing my thesis

Day 2 of #kolymbari #vectormeeting on gene editing and more microbes 🧬🦠 Now off to the first poster session!

Very proud of how well this is going. I should add, most of this would not have happened without PAMCA, Africa 🤝

Day 5 (final) of #kolymbari #vectormeeting on physiology and insecticide resistances ☠️🦟

And finally the massive #kolymbari #vectormeeting collage, how many people, sandflies and saliva samples can you spot? 🪰🦟

Anopheles #funestus🦟are an important #malaria vector in #Africa. @lstmnews researchers Charlotte Quinn & Zachary Stavrou - Dowd tell us about their work to develop new tools to fight this mosquito and help #EndMalaria ➡️genedrivenetwork.org/blog/innovatio… #WorldMosquitoDay LSTM Vector Biology Tony Nolan

Anopheles #funestus🦟 is a significant #malaria carrier in #Africa. Charlotte Quinn, Tony Nolan, and I at LSTM Vector Biology, are developing genetic tools to target this species to understand insecticide resistance. tinyurl.com/33pb6ndc #WorldMosquitoDay #EndMalaria @lstmnews

New paper out in Parasites & Vectors! We show that nitisinone, a repurposed β-triketone, kills Anopheles gambiae via tarsal contact, even in pyrethroid-resistant strains. doi.org/10.1186/s13071… #VectorBiology #Nitisinone #IRS #PublicHealth #malaria

So proud!! In their new study, Zachary Stavrou - Dowd et al. demonstrate the potential of the #endectocide nitisinone as a powerful new weapon against resistant mosquitoes. Big step forward in #vectorcontrol. #Malaria #InsecticideResistance #GlobalHealth #Entomology #ParasitesAndVectors