In in vitro cell culture, wMel Wolbachia from Drosophila melanogaster reigns supreme against wRi Wolbachia from D. simulans.

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Our paper showing that Wolbachia influences Drosophila thermal limits is now published!

Liam Ferguson Bel van Heerwaarden

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TWiP reviews the cellular lives of Wolbachia, a gram-negative bacteria that infects many arthropods and filarial nematodes with very different outcomes – parasitism or mutualism. Hosts: Dickson Despommier, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula. 📺 bit.ly/4aoISvK

So excited that our Summer Ecology & DNA Camp is not only growing, but we have NEW OPPORTUNITIES for students! Thanks to Discover the Microbes Within! Wolbachia Project QIAGEN & One Health Microbiome Center ss can now use Qiagen DNA extraction kits to identify insect DNA & search for Wolbachia! STANYS The Nature Conservancy NYS MasterTeacher/MasterCounselor Program

MS alert! 🚨

Wanna learn about the mechanism of a drive that's behind the rapid spread of #Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for vector control? Check out our new pub below!
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The early version of our paper GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)! Parthenogenesis inducing Wolbachia are tricky to work w/ but we’re excited to keep working on how bacteria convert
hosts to asexual reproduction.

Identification of parthenogenesis-inducing effector proteins academic.oup.com/gbe/article/do…

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

Reactions to mosquito bites can differ dramatically between people, but also between mosquito species. These are my arms right after feeding 500 mosquitoes from two different mosquito species. Yes, the one on the left is much itchier!

📢 We are one step closer to make first #Wolbachia field trials in #Spain ‼️
🦟 Suitable Wolb strain was introduced into a Spanish population of Asian tiger #mosquito through hybridization with the lab line ARwP, already tested as an efficient control tool against this #vector 🦠

The March 25th deadline for ScienceU's Biotechnology Mini Summer School is rapidly approaching. High School participants will have an opportunity to explore the Wolbachia Project with Penn State scientists. science.psu.edu/outreach/scien… Science-U

Strain-specific impacts of Wolbachia in Brazilian mosquitoes

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🎉🪰New research from Rupinder Kaur, PhD
Seth Bordenstein & Angelina McGarry in Science Magazine
- #Wolbachia prophage proteins modify long noncoding RNA and DNA during insect sperm development, leading to cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and embryonic lethality.

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Mating wasps for our Wolbachia CI experiments in biotech 2.

wMel Wolbachia establishment in Fiji, Vanuatu and Kiribati journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

How a prophage controls fly reproduction by Jessica Sacher, PhD from Phage Directory is just a lovely distilling of complexity on phage WO and fly reproduction into its simplest elements. The best blog post on phage WO ever!

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Taking it to the next level here. Bob Kuhn has a protocol in case anyone is interested in adding this awesome lab!

Check out our latest publication on how Wolbachia prophage proteins modulate Drosophila long non-coding RNA and DNA! #PhagePhenomenon Science Magazine

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New work by Former RasgonLab postdoc Nadya Urakova! With Renuka Joseph Omar Akbari Zhiyong Xi McGrawLab @[email protected] and many others!

TLDR: Small mutations in the mosquito genome can have large and weird impacts on Wolbachia-induced virus blocking

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