Now, this project has been one of my favorites during my postdoc with Ryan Smith . Not only because it brought me stateside but also because I got to use groundbreaking techniques and dive into the world of mosquito immune cells.

Check out this cool work from George-Rafael Samantsidis and Ryan Smith using An gambiae transgenic lines we helped them create!

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🎉Congratulations Dr. Ryan Smith Ryan Smith, Iowa State U, for receiving the 2024 ACME Breakthrough in Medical Entomology Award. 🥇The award was presented by outgoing Chair Adriana Troyo 🔬🦟 🇨🇷 at the awards ceremony during ACME Symposium II ASTMH #TropMed24, with HamerLab

🚨Interested in mosquito immunity and genetics? 🚨 We are recruiting for two post-doc positions: 1) Development of genetic tools to study mosquito immune cells isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/… 2) Role of mosquito immune cells in immune recognition and priming isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/…

I am super excited to share our latest review about the effects of blood-feeding and infection on arthropod (mosquitoes and ticks) hemocytes. Huge thanks to Shahid Karim and my mentor, Ryan Smith, for their efforts in putting this together.. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

BIG NEWS! The Mosquito Cell Atlas preprint is live! 🦟🧬 My first senior author paper! Massive and accessible snRNA-seq dataset and a lot of cool mosquito biology. A true collaborative achievement! #MCA biorxiv.org/content/10.110… See Olivia Goldman PhD thread ⬇️

Excited to share our latest collaborative work with looking at the role of mosquito immune cells in virus infection. It turns out that these cells actually help disseminate an infection, increasing the potential for virus transmission rdcu.be/euiZt

Celebrating the holiday weekend with another bang! Our work describing roles of TNF signaling on mosquito immune cell function and in limiting malaria parasite infection is now published. Big shout out to George-Rafael Samantsidis and others for their contributions! journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Drs David Hall & Ryan Smith highlight Sarah Merkling & colleagues’ Cell Genomics article on #mosquito cellular responses in #midgut & #fatbody after #bloodfeeding. #Aedes #aegypti #scRNAseq #Metabolomics Iowa State University Institut Pasteur, since 1887 Université Paris Cité authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbEr5Eb1xN6…

🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Cell! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology: mosquitoes taste with their legs (more than we thought), glial cells