Vish Dhokiya

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Developing Wolbachia for malaria control: the second stable transinfection in Anopheles. journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

@SigmaAldrich @Sciobhannr

It’s World Chocolate Day, and we’re excited to announce that we’re giving away our famous Sigma-Aldrich chocolate bottles!

@vectorgen @fooheesoon @mosquitomicrobe As a great man once said:

Covering some @vectorgen wisdom at the MosSI group retreat.

@Adzj18Jones @LSTMnews Congrats Adam!

As of June 3rd I will become the facilities supervisor @LSTMnews I took the leap and I can’t wait to start this new chapter in my life.

Came on here just to post our recent pub in @PLOSPathogens - journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

What is the most aperture opening thing a phage enzyme can do to a eukaryotic host? This new paper put that question to the test in our lab. Sperm, prophage, long noncoding RNA, and symbiosis by @KaurTweets @SuperFlySci @Britt_3Phage @JediShropshire science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Read this article, co-written by LSTM PhD student Camille Abada for @ConversationUK, about the discovery of the 95Mat5 antibody, which has huge potential as a game-changing treatment for snakebite envenoming. ⬇️ #Research theconversation.com/were-a-step-cl…

But perhaps the most striking pictures are those of the ordinary people of Samarqand, whether melon sellers and fabric merchants.

Excited to unveil our progress on a multiplexed split homing gene drive in Aedes aegypti! 🦟🧬 This journey has been a true collaboration, with incredible effort from many individuals. 🙌nature.com/articles/s4146…

The next Wolbachia Conference will be held at OIST, Okinawa Japan (13-19 Apr 2025). The website is now open. web.tuat.ac.jp/~insect/wolbac… Please check your calendar, and spread this info to your colleagues. See you in Okinawa!

Check out these PhD projects the lab has on offer! 💠 Exploiting native Wolbachia strains in Anopheles for novel malaria control approaches. 💠 Disentangling interactions between the mosquito and its microbiome 💠Exploiting antivirals for control of arboviruses in mosquitoes

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I finish my PhD lab work the same way I started it: mosquito dissections. Since one of the things I've enjoyed most at @LSTMnews has been teaching, I thought I'd share these pics for whoever wants to use them 😊

@arbovmom ☹️

😭😭😭 Killua 😭😭😭

We have a @IAFultonSchools DNA Club team researching the distribution of Wolbachia related sex ratio distorters in pillbugs across the US. We are raising funds to help with Sanger sequencing costs. Please help us if you can through our crowdfunding: experiment.com/pillbugsrd

Had about 2 years with Laura as a mentor and friend and all I’ll say is that Salford is lucky to be getting her. Good luck Laura!

Perhaps you've wondered what Doritos would look like in a CT scan. We did, so here's a clump of Cool Ranch Doritos, scanned through the bag. But there's more...🧵

Been great to have @MosWhisperer visiting for the last couple of weeks. Treasure trove of mosquito/drosophila/Wolbachia knowledge.