Hello from Vancouver! Dusting off the bsky credentials to highlight two new mosquito preprints from the lab... extremely proud of everyone who contributed and happy to have their work out for all to see. Lots of good stuff happening in the lab these days! More below...

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

So cool… congrats Leah and team!

Leah Houri-Zeevi@leahhouri.bsky.social · last yr.

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765v1

globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

Mosquitoes: the photo gallery. I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)

Mosquitoes - Alex Wild

Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...

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Congratulations to newly- minted UBC Zoology PhD graduate Dr. Jarrett Blair!

Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.

A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - Nature

Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel...

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Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by @genmorinaga.bsky.social to cap it all off!

Andrea Gloria-Soria@agloriasoria.bsky.social · 3y ago

Now online! An extensive revised phylogenetic analysis of mosquitoes. New paper lead by my colleague @jsoghigian.bsky.social

Had a great time hosting @benmatthewslab.bsky.social at UCVM! A great seminar and excellent conversations. Thanks for helping us launch our new Comparative Biology and Animal Health seminar series!