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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)

@dwecklab.bsky.social
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Dweck's lab (www.dwecklab.com/)studies the neurobiology of ecological niche adaptations using Drosophila suzukii as a a model. We also study chemoreception in spotted lanternflies and other harmful insects. orcid.org/0000-0002-7017-5020

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A gallery of hover flies.
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Syrphidae - Alex Wild
A gallery of hover flies
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you Alex!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Many, many thanks Silke!!!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you Noah!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you Greg!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you so much Kristyn!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you Tyler! I miss chatting with you!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you Anita!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you Jeff!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you Mohammed. You are next!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
After four wonderful years at the CAES, our lab is moving to TAMU Entomology (@tamuentomology). I am very excited about this new chapter. We will be hiring three postdocs to start early next year. Please contact me if you are interested.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Students did an excellent job at the 2026 Plant Science Day (8/5/2026). They presented and communicated their summer work and were visited by 210.
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Stéphane Dissel @sdissel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Right. Let’s give this another try…. My laboratory is looking for a motivated postdoc in the field of Neurobiology. We have multiple exciting projects, NIH funding. Experience using the Drosophila model is preferable. Please share Job ID: 60378 erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Today, we watched the match together, while doing some lab work!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
On Thursday, students checked the results of their 24-hour SLF behavioral experiment and began the volatile extraction process for the Tree of Heaven! Students are becoming experts at pipetting!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Students went into the field to collect over 200 Spotted Lanternflies in order to begin a 24-hour experiment. So excited to see the results!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today was definitely fun. We welcomed our 2026 summer cohort of high school students into the lab.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I think no French team is better than Zizu's (Zinedine Zidane) team.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today was definitely fun. We not only welcomed our 2026 summer cohort of high school students, but they also worked in the lab and the field on a very warm day.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The 2026 Summer cohort of high school students just joined the lab to work on Spotted lanternflies. The students began hands-on lab and field work. @blumenthal.senate.gov ate.gov, @usdagov.bsky.social v.bsky.social, @ctcaes.bsky.social
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Please listen to the firing activity and responses of the neurons. It is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The response of an olfactory sensillum in a second-instar spotted lanternfly to one of its best activators.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Chemosensory Organs of the Spotted Lanternfly. Here is what we have accomplished so far....
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
More SLF First instars are hatching
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
BIZARE! Bombardier beetles defend themselves mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide in an internal chamber, triggering an explosive chemical reaction, producing a 100C/212F scalding toxic liquid that they pulse at predators!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
They keep hatching!!!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Spotted lanternfly first instars have emerged in New Haven, CT, and our basic science-based traps are up.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here is a banger! Our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social is out! We have used museomics to sequence a 45yr old specimen of Drosophila enhydrobia, a rare and most unusual fly whose larvae are aquatic(!) and predatory(!). Very cool, big success. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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shimaaebrahim.bsky.social @shimaaebrahim.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
www.dongascience.com/en/news/77886
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[Romantic Biology] Yale study in Cell finds garlic compound blocks fruit fly and mosquito mating
In his 1897 novel 'Dracula,' Bram Stoker wrote that garlic repels vampires. This concept, once considered a cliché of Gothic horror literature, unexpectedly gained scientific validation some 130 years
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
news.yale.edu/2026/05/07/p...
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From pantry to pest control: Garlic kills the mood — for mosquitoes, too
Yale researchers discovered a naturally occurring compound in garlic that halts mating and egg-laying in insects.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Well deserved!!!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Soleil, a high school student and a UConn's NRCA Conservation Ambassador, represented our lab at the 2026 Environmental Changemakers Showcase. Way to go Soleil!
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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Congratulations Islam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Islam Sobhy @islamssobhy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Delighted to share our new editorial in @FrontPlantSci 🌱 As Guest Editor, I helped shape this collection exploring the multifunctional roles of plant VOCs in plant defense, sustainable pest management, advancing plant–insect ecology and agroecology. 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
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shimaaebrahim.bsky.social @shimaaebrahim.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
www.researchgate.net/profile/Shim... via @researchgate
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Shimaa A.S Ebrahim | Achievement
See this researcher's achievement on ResearchGate.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Great!😂 @cellpress.bsky.social Garlic inhibits mating and egg laying in Aedes vector mosquitoes
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And another great paper in Cell from the best ever behavioralist, Dr. Shimaa Ebrahim!!!
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming. Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The NASA live stream is terrific but low on visuals for the mo (nearly 600k ppl watching and the audio is fab). So great to see this brief image of an iphone picture of the moon taken by one of the astronauts.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Thank you Jeff!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Receptor sequence divergence, gain, loss, duplication, and neofunctionalization drive olfactory adaptation in Drosophila suzukii | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Receptor sequence divergence, gain, loss, duplication, and neofunctionalization drive olfactory adaptation in Drosophila suzukii | PNAS
Shifts in ecological niches are often driven by evolutionary changes in the olfactory system, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understoo...
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Akhila Mudunuri @akhila1498.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Thank you, Ian. Several experiments were built on your beautiful previous work.
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Congrats!!!
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Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك) @dwecklab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
And we celebrated Dr. Xue's first PNAS paper with Cake!!!!
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Lindsay Triplett @triplettlr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Why is Spotted Wing Drosophila attracted to fruit at its prime, instead of overripe fruit like other flies? Xue and Dweck found the neuron receptor shifts responsible for this $500M agricultural problem, in this impressive 2-author work out of the CT Ag Experiment Station!
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