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David Hayes

@david-hayes.bsky.social
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PhD student studying fungi for mosquito control

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Kristin Michel @kmichel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Ok, let’s try this again! New research from the lab. @david-hayes.bsky.social shows that spores of the #fungus Clonostacys rosea kill #mosquito larvae. Clonostacys does not infect & conidia do not need to be alive to kill larvae. Collab with Patil Tawidian, Jen Phinney, Brandon Plattner.
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The potential of Clonostachys rosea as a biolarvicide against Anopheles gambiae
Mosquitoes vector multiple disease-causing pathogens detrimental to humans, imposing a high public health and economic burden. Chemical and biological larvicides are used in some settings to reduce mo...
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Kristin Michel @kmichel.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
New paper from the lab. @david-hayes.bsky.social shows that Trichoderma atroviride is toxic to Aedes albopictus larvae 🦟url: academic.oup.com/jme/article-...
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Larvicidal activity of Trichoderma atroviride (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) against Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)
Abstract. Larviciding is an important part of effective integrated mosquito management. However, growing resistance to chemical- and bacterial-based insect
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Kristin Michel @kmichel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New paper from the lab: Bianca Morejon defines the regulatory protease network that governs #mosquito #immunity www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The expanded immunoregulatory protease network in mosquitoes is governed by gene coexpression | PNAS
Serine protease cascades regulate key innate immune responses. Their activation cleaves a series of inactive protease zymogens, which then activate...
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Kristin Michel @kmichel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New preprint from the lab in which we show that Trichoderma culture supernatant kills Aedes albopictus larvae 🦟🍄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Larvicidal activity of Trichoderma atroviride (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) against Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)
Larviciding is an important part of effective integrated mosquito management. However, growing resistance to chemical and bacterial-based insecticides requires biocontrol agents with novel modes of ac...
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