🧬 We are excited to share our latest review!! @victorcardosojaime.bsky.social Our paper in Genes explores how RNAi-based bioinsecticides can shape the future of vector control. 
🔗 www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/16...

First batch of fly food is ready in the Maya lab! Huge thanks to everyone who helped get us up and running. Excited to see where the next experiments with flies take us!!

🐝 On #WorldBeeDay, meet the real royal court: the Queen Bee’s gut microbiome! Four core bacteria support her health, immunity, and colony success. Long live the queen... and her microbes. 👑🦠

“Royal microbes”, the court of the queen bee.

Four bacterial species compose the microbiome of the honey queen bee and provide a nutritional and protective role

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Wrapped up my postdoc in the @broderickflylab.bsky.social last week. Grateful for the science, @nabroderick.bsky.social mentorship, and the chance to mentor an outstanding group of undergrads! Bittersweet goodbye, but I leave with deep gratitude for the friendships that shaped my time in the lab.

📣 New MicroBites! Microbial collectibles from mosquitos 🦟 A collection of mosquito microbiome 🦠 micro-bites.org/2025/04/11/m...

Microbial collectibles from mosquitos

A collection of mosquito microbiome

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📣 New MicroBites! A gut shield for bumblebees 🛡️ Gut bacteria protect bumblebees from infection 🦠 🐝

A gut shield for bumblebees

Gut bacteria protect bumblebees from infection

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What a wonderful surprise to receive a commemorative engraved award from PEW, delivered unexpectedly to the lab! I am truly honored and grateful to have been a PEW Latin American Fellow all these years!!

📣 New MicroBites! The newest Antarctica resident: the H5N1 bird flu virus 🥶 The birds of Antarctica have a cold 🦠

The newest Antarctica resident: the H5N1 bird flu virus

The birds of Antarctica have a cold

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Please help me to congratulate @victorcardosojaime.bsky.social on his most recent publication! A masterpiece of science and art! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anopheles gambiae phagocytic hemocytes promote Plasmodium falciparum infection by regulating midgut epithelial integrity - Nature Communications

Cardoso and Dimopoulos show that mosquito hemocytes that are macrophages-like cells are agonists of the early stages of Plasmodium falciparum infection and play a critical role in maintaining midgut e...

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🎄🔬 Merry Christmas! 🧫✨ I recently joined to @microbites.bsky.social Glad to share about glowing microbes and how researchers are perfecting their “Christmas lights”! 🎇 🦠 #ScienceCommunication micro-bites.org/2024/12/06/c...

Christmas lights: Fluorescent proteins in bacteria.

Fluorescence in bacteria can be applied to study protein function.

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