Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)
@dwecklab.bsky.social
Dweck's lab (https://www.dwecklab.com/)studies the neurobiology of ecological niche adaptations using Drosophila suzukii as a a model. We also study chemoreception in spotted lanternflies and other harmful insects. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7017-5020
Right. Let’s give this another try…. My laboratory is looking for a motivated postdoc in the field of Neurobiology. We have multiple exciting projects, NIH funding. Experience using the Drosophila model is preferable. Please share Job ID: 60378 erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...
Today, we watched the match together, while doing some lab work!!!!!!!!!!!
On Thursday, students checked the results of their 24-hour SLF behavioral experiment and began the volatile extraction process for the Tree of Heaven! Students are becoming experts at pipetting!
Students went into the field to collect over 200 Spotted Lanternflies in order to begin a 24-hour experiment. So excited to see the results!
Today was definitely fun. We welcomed our 2026 summer cohort of high school students into the lab.
Today was definitely fun. We not only welcomed our 2026 summer cohort of high school students, but they also worked in the lab and the field on a very warm day.
The 2026 Summer cohort of high school students just joined the lab to work on Spotted lanternflies. The students began hands-on lab and field work. @blumenthal.senate.gov ate.gov, @usdagov.bsky.social v.bsky.social, @ctcaes.bsky.social
The response of an olfactory sensillum in a second-instar spotted lanternfly to one of its best activators.
The Chemosensory Organs of the Spotted Lanternfly. Here is what we have accomplished so far....
BIZARE! Bombardier beetles defend themselves mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide in an internal chamber, triggering an explosive chemical reaction, producing a 100C/212F scalding toxic liquid that they pulse at predators!
Spotted lanternfly first instars have emerged in New Haven, CT, and our basic science-based traps are up.
Here is a banger! Our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social is out! We have used museomics to sequence a 45yr old specimen of Drosophila enhydrobia, a rare and most unusual fly whose larvae are aquatic(!) and predatory(!). Very cool, big success. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
www.dongascience.com/en/news/77886
[Romantic Biology] Yale study in Cell finds garlic compound blocks fruit fly and mosquito mating
In his 1897 novel 'Dracula,' Bram Stoker wrote that garlic repels vampires. This concept, once considered a cliché of Gothic horror literature, unexpectedly gained scientific validation some 130 years
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Soleil, a high school student and a UConn's NRCA Conservation Ambassador, represented our lab at the 2026 Environmental Changemakers Showcase. Way to go Soleil!
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Delighted to share our new editorial in @FrontPlantSci 🌱 As Guest Editor, I helped shape this collection exploring the multifunctional roles of plant VOCs in plant defense, sustainable pest management, advancing plant–insect ecology and agroecology. 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
And another great paper in Cell from the best ever behavioralist, Dr. Shimaa Ebrahim!!!
@shimaaebrahim.bsky.social · 4mo agonam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... I’m thrilled to share my journey from the kitchen to the lab, which has ultimately led me to publish in Cell Journals. I hope you enjoy reading my latest paper:
New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming. Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...
The NASA live stream is terrific but low on visuals for the mo (nearly 600k ppl watching and the audio is fab). So great to see this brief image of an iphone picture of the moon taken by one of the astronauts.
Receptor sequence divergence, gain, loss, duplication, and neofunctionalization drive olfactory adaptation in Drosophila suzukii | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Receptor sequence divergence, gain, loss, duplication, and neofunctionalization drive olfactory adaptation in Drosophila suzukii | PNAS
Shifts in ecological niches are often driven by evolutionary changes in the olfactory system, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understoo...
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Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 4mo agoAlong with @katrinvogt.bsky.social , @akhila1498.bsky.social and Klára Tučková we combine long timescale (3 hr) behavioral tracking of Drosophila larvae in patchy environments with varying statistics, along with quantitative analysis and computational modeling, to dissect foraging strategies. 1/n
And we celebrated Dr. Xue's first PNAS paper with Cake!!!!
Why is Spotted Wing Drosophila attracted to fruit at its prime, instead of overripe fruit like other flies? Xue and Dweck found the neuron receptor shifts responsible for this $500M agricultural problem, in this impressive 2-author work out of the CT Ag Experiment Station!
Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)@dwecklab.bsky.social · 4mo agoI am very happy to share that the latest work from the lab, led by Dr. Qi Xue, has been published in PNAS and is now online: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
