Kerri Coon

@Amelia_Lindsey @UWBact It was so nice to see you and hear the latest about the amazing work your group is doing, Amelia!!! 🪰🦠❤️

The latest instalment in our journey to create mosquitoes with designer microbiomes!! 🦟🦠🧪 “A cryopreservation method to recover laboratory- and field-derived bacterial communities from mosquito larval habitats” Great work @szymbiosis & @Mosmicrobes! journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

RT @laura_brettell: We took microbiomes from different 🦟species from the lab/field and transplanted into Ae. aegypti -> they responded simi…

When we swap their microbiomes, what do the mosquitoes actually think about that?? Take a look at our new preprint; congratulations @Shiva_hegde @laura_brettell @SQuek_001 Miguel Saldaña @EtebariK @SassanAsgari @MosMicrobes @mosquitomicrobe biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Beyond proud of my amazing MDTP students @NicholsHollyL, @Asommer101, and @aldoaarellano for their hard work and incredible talks at ESA this year! ❤️🦟🥳

Applications for the assistant professor position in @UWMadisonMMI should be submitted by this Tuesday (November 15) to receive full consideration. We have supportive faculty with fantastic students across many graduate programs on campus! jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5149…

Job alert! Since our brilliant @vectorvish is off to new adventures with a PhD scholarship @LSTMnews (congratulations again!! 🥳); @laura_brettell @mosquitomicrobe and myself will be recruiting for a research assistant in Liverpool @LSTMnews! (1/3)

Come and work with me at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! The Dept. of Plant Pathology is looking for a Nematologist at the Assistant OR Associate level. The research area is open. Applications are encouraged from citizens of any nation. jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5155…

My lab website is live!! thelewinlab.com Next up: recruiting some awesome people so I'm not the only one on the lab members page 😂

@nsa_dada @asuSOLS @ASUTheCollege Huge congrats, Nsa!!!

@RuthlessRuth15 @markjmandel @MicroKLV Amazing work, Ruth!

My very first paper is officially published! 😁 Big thanks to @markjmandel and @MicroKLV for their guidance and making this possible.

It’s a happy (and sunny) day here in Madison! Huge congrats to @NicholsHollyL for passing her prelims with flying colors!!!

Huge congrats to all of the new fellows and advisers! Can’t wait to be reunited with @aldoaarellano after his internship @dermbiont this summer. Give your students the space to explore career options, folks. It’ll only make all the science better!

RT @MDeniseDearing: .@BenMicrobesMtg #BeneficialMicrobesMtg looking for a postdoc interested in discovering and culturing creosote-degradin…

@Juul @mosquitomicrobe Our results support the latter statement, as our cryopreservation conditions had very little impact on recovery of bacteria, even from the field!

@Juul @mosquitomicrobe DMSO doesn't play nice with mosquito larvae and trial and error with individual isolates suggested that 20% glycerol would be sufficient to preserve most bacteria from mosquito environments.

What better way to celebrate the close of the @BenMicrobesMtg this week than to share our new paper?… "Cryopreservation of mosquito microbiota for use in microcosm experiments" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

RT @mosquitomicrobe: Follows on from our microbiome transplantation work. 🦟🦠➡️🧪➡️🦟🦠 You can check that out in the thread here 👇 https://t…

RT @mosquitomicrobe: Our latest step towards establishing a field microbiome in the lab. Here we show that cryopreserved microbiomes from m…

The sky’s the limit…and we’re working hard to continue to optimize these approaches, especially for field-derived microbiota. Stay tuned for more from us and our incredible colleagues @NicholsHollyL Miguel Medina Munoz @EvaHeinz7 @laura_brettell @vectorvish

The same approach could also be used to cryopreserve microbiota for transplantation into different life stages or host species, à la: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…