@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social got us good. Sarina (undergrad) as the artist 🤝Songjun (grad student) as inspiration with his favorite Dino

Know anyone who'd be interested in this #Sciencesky #MedSky? Please share! We're urgently seeking an Entomologist to support vector control strategies, including Wolbachia monitoring, in Central America. https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosinternacionales/jobs/6110260004?gh_src=ryb9gqft4us

PhD Student in my lab, Ricky, was just awarded the eMCDB T32 fellowship! Couldn’t be prouder of my students who have been brave enough to join my new lab and excel already! ☺️ www.baiklab.com/news/ricky-t32

Ricky awarded the eMCDB T32 Fellowship! — Baik Lab

Our PhD student, Ricky, has been awarded the eMCDB T32 Fellowship!

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The only correct way to end the school year: Baik lab KBBQ + lawn games!! Featuring lettuce grown in my garden solely for this purpose. *Not pictured: delicious ceviche, strawberry shortcake, and hwachae dessert that lab members brought

I have found the source of all mosquitoes

Insect targeting toxin produced by Streptomyces!! 🪰🦠 now published in Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com This body of work was so fun to contribute to! I got to venture back to my first love, Drosophila, and combine it with my current love of insect gustation/sensory neurobiology!

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 3mo ago

Out Now! Streptomyces produce a diphtheria toxin-like exotoxin that targets insects #MicroSky

Long-legged fly in my garden! *Hand and baby lettuce for scale.

The scientific dad (my PhD advisor) paid a little visit with his family during picnic day! It’s worth pointing out that his daughter standing next to me was only six years old and MUCH shorter when I first started in his lab as a grad student 😅

Baik Lab at the picnic day!! @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social

Entomology at Picnic Day is popping off!! Longest line I’ve seen all day 😱

nam12.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:

Mimicry found in my yard this morning! Bee-mimicking fly 🪰🐝🪰🐝

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...

🎨 🦟 Beautiful illustration by Amedeo J. E. Terzi (buff.ly/rJpBWjq ) in Edwards' "Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region, Part III" (1942) #entomology #mosquitoes #taxonomy 🧪 🌍️ 🌐

You know that it’s almost Picnic Day @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social when you see this outside of Briggs!!

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems ends today with pitches for team research projects to explore how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes. - with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, @kavlifoundation.org.

The Baik lab lately 💙💛💙💛 #UCDavis

One of my lab’s undergrad student made these mosquito cupcakes to celebrate the end of the quarter 🥹

Some good news worth sharing: first training fellowship of the Baik lab! Congratulations to our PhD student, Songjun Lee, on being awarded the PacVec CoE training fellowship!! Just few weeks into his PhD, he’s already kicking ass! www.baiklab.com/news/baik-la...

Songjun awarded the PacVec CoE Fellowship! — Baik Lab

PacVec CoE Fellowship awarded to Songjun Lee student in Lisa Baik lab

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First day of school (as a faculty member)!!!

"Europe is entering a new phase — where longer, more widespread and more intense transmission of mosquito borne disease is becoming the new normal." www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

World Mosquito Day 2025: Europe sets new records for mosquito-borne diseases - ECDC supporting Member States in adapting to ‘new normal’

ECDC has warned that record breaking outbreaks of West Nile virus (WNV) infection and chikungunya virus disease point to a ‘new normal’ in Europe.

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“Officials say it is possible the resident was infected with malaria in New Jersey. If confirmed, this would be the first known locally acquired case of malaria in the state since 1991…There are about 100 travel-associated cases of malaria reported in New Jersey each year.”

NJ officials investigate case of malaria in resident with no recent international travel

If confirmed, this would be the first known locally acquired case of malaria in the state since 1991.

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So glad to finally have this out with co-author @mallerybreban.bsky.social and very thankful for the many amazing people who contributed to this study and provided materials and input! 🦟🦠1/12 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Implications of successive blood feeding on Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus inhibition in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - Nature Communications

Dengue virus transmission by Ae. aegypti mosquitoes poses a significant public health threat, necessitating innovative control strategies. Here, the authors demonstrate that, while successive blood fe...

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Freezer boxes emptied and moving boxes packed. I am coming home, UC Davis @ucdavis.bsky.social 💙💛💙💛

We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

Happy 6-yr anniversary, Carlson lab! 🥹 It has been the best 6 years of my scientific career and I’m going to miss them so dearly when I leave 😭 The best career advice I can give to the young scientists: find a mentor, mentees, and lab that you love. It makes science so much more worth it.

Kicking off my Bluesky account by sharing a new review I wrote with @lindymcbr.bsky.social for @currentbiology.bsky.social! If you’ve ever wondered about the source of your stank or just want to learn why humans smell weird (it's true!), then this review is for you! 👃🧪🤔 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Congrats Leah!!!

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...

Dengue, an arboviral infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitos, is endemic in more than 100 countries. This practice article discusses assessment and management of dengue www.bmj.com/content/388/...