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Galleria mellonella Research Centre

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Research centre focussing on all things related to the wax moth, Galleria mellonella. Find us at www.gmrcuk.org or get in touch at gmrc@exeter.ac.uk Happy to repost Galleria related news, findings or publications!

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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New paper by @sarahkwalsh.bsky.social looking at phage-bacteria interactions across a diverse panel of 64 Staph isolates in an insect host model - "Detectable effects of bacterial phylogeny on virulence but not phage efficacy in an in vivo Galleria mellonella model" doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Detectable effects of bacterial phylogeny on virulence but not phage efficacy in an in vivo Galleria mellonella model
Abstract. Predicting the outcomes of bacteria–phage interactions is a central challenge in microbial ecology, particularly across heterogeneous host enviro
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🐛 With 2 weeks to go there is still time to secure one of the last few places for our Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-... Join us at the LSI in Exeter, UK for: 🎤 8th September: Research Day, including plenary lecture 🥼 9th September: Hands-on Laboratory Sessions
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Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 | Exeter University
We are delighted to announce that the 5th annual UK based Galleria Mellonella Workshop will return to Exeter in September 2026.  The event will run ov
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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Another shot of yesterday's Galleria mellonella. I doubt I'd find it on a tree if I didn't know it was there. #teammoth
Galleria mellonella (Wax Moth).
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📢 The preliminary research day programme for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now available! 👉 Registration remains open until the 1st of September and we continue to welcome poster submissions until the 31st of August. 🧑‍💻Visit www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html for more info
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🐛GMW2026 Update Due to popularity, we've released additional Full Programme places. These remain limited! Research Day places are still available, and we're keen to hear from anyone wishing to present. Any topic is welcome, provided it includes G. mellonella results. www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html
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GMW 2026
We're pleased to announce that the 5th annual UK-based Galleria Mellonella Workshop will return in 2026 to Exeter, UK. GMW2026 will take place across the 8th and 9th of September 2026 at the Living...
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The fifth annual Galleria mellonella workshop returns with a two-day programme including a research seminar and hands-on laboratory sessions. Organised by @gmrc.bsky.social to support the use of Galleria as a partial replacement model. 📅 8 – 9 September 📍 Exeter, UK 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/galle...
Wax moth larvae, Galleria mellonella, in a laboratory petri dish.
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great to see registrations already coming in for #GMW2026, including poster submissions and attendees travelling from across Europe 🌍 We'd love to hear from anyone interested in giving a talk – provisional titles welcome! More info: www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html #GalleriaMellonella #Microbiology
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GMW 2026
We're pleased to announce that the 5th annual UK-based Galleria Mellonella Workshop will return in 2026 to Exeter, UK. GMW2026 will take place across the 8th and 9th of September 2026 at the Living...
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🐛Registration for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now open!⭐ 📆When? 8th-9th September 2026 📍Where? Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK 🎤Featuring a plenary lecture from Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland Sign up here: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🐛Registration for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now open!⭐ 📆When? 8th-9th September 2026 📍Where? Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK 🎤Featuring a plenary lecture from Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland Sign up here: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to akaczmarek@miiz.waw.pl (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp
Galleria mellonella, source: Curtis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Andrew Mongue @ajmongue.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Mongue lab and Kawahara lab @dr-akito.bsky.social are hiring postdocs!! If you're interested in the genomics of extreme sexual dimorphism and/or silk production, come work on bagworms with us! See below for details: sicb.org/jobs-and-fel...
An Abbot's bagworm case made of silk and sticksAdult female bagworm (left) and males (right).
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@gmrc.bsky.social has published its rearing manual online: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource... Reviewed by the NC3Rs and other external experts, this resource supports consistent, reliable and reproducible insect husbandry and empowers institutions to adopt wax moth larvae as a partial replacement model.
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Galleria mellonella rearing manual
Developed by the Galleria Mellonella Research Centre at the University of Exeter, to support consistent, reliable and reproducible insect husbandry.
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🐛 Happy New Year from GMRC 🐛 We’re pleased to be able to release our Galleria mellonella rearing manual (externally reviewed), now available on our website: www.gmrcuk.org/resources Interested in adopting this fantastic partial-replacement model organism? Get in touch! ✉️ gmrc@exeter.ac.uk #3Rs
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RESOURCES
At GMRC, we are committed to enabling others to adopt this important partial-replacement model organism within their own institutions. We are therefore pleased to share our  Galleria mellonella...
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN @ncn.gov.pl project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗ 💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines: 🧬 immunology 🦠 microbiology 🧪 molecular biology 🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics 🔗 tinyurl.com/4uynmj75
Galleria mellonella larva, source: Wikimedia Commons
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
And it’s day one of #MothsOnTour with @gmrc.bsky.social at #BSI25!! If you’re moth curious, come chat to either me, @jenniesc.bsky.social or Prof Wakefield about the #Galleriamellonella 3Rs in vivo model and see what it’s all about with the wiggly 🐛🐛
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Now published as version of record at @elife.bsky.social ! Layers of Immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response. The tools are now deposited in the VDRC (link ⬇️) elifesciences.org/articles/107... shop.vbc.ac.at/vdrc_store/d... #Drosophila #IDsky #SymbioSky #Infection #Immunology
eLife Assessment
This work provides one of the first important attempts to look at Drosophila immune responses against bacterial, viral, and fungal pathogens in a way that combines the roles of four major arms in immunity (Imd signaling, Toll signaling, phagocytosis, and melanization) rather than studying them separately. The findings are compelling and the tools provided can be used as they are, or built upon, in various contexts.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.107030.3.sa0Figure 1 validating the mutations usedFigure 3 summarising the survival results from a 14-genotype 25-pathogen panel.Tracking of mortality and pathogen growth over time, complemented by Figure 5 (not shown) looking at pathogen load upon death.
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Prof Amy Cain @flamycain.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome 👇 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Characterising the Multiple‐Plastic Degrading Strain of Bacillus subtilis GM_03 From the Galleria mellonella Microbiome
A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis has been isolated from plastic-fed Galleria mellonella larvae, which shows evidence of degradation of both LDPE and PU plastics. Genes potentially associated with ....
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Our final talk is from @doktorbasti.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk on the scalable imaging platform is developing to automate health and mortality scoring during microbial virulence assays #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
hopefully galleria users can celebrate the end of hourly galleria poking sessions
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Next a presentation from Toby Jenkins and Simon Booth from @uniofbath.bsky.social on their work using lasers to improve the Galleria burn wound infection model originally developed by @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@cjcoates.bsky.social from @universityofgalway.bsky.social and @swanseauni.bsky.social gives us an overview on Galleria as an aspirant toxicology model for shellfish poisoning syndrome #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
After the first break we have Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy from PEVITAC @uniofreading.bsky.social on their advances in toxicological and antimicrobial testing using Galleria #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Next up is @jenniesc.bsky.social of @exeter.ac.uk / @gmrc.bsky.social giving an overview of the Galleria mellonella Research Centre activities! #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The 2025 Galleria mellonella Workshop is off to a start at Edge Hill University, with an opening talk on the Galleria Envenoming Model from @rachelhclare.bsky.social #galleriamellonellaworkshop2025
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨 Last chance to register for GMW 2025 🚨 📆 15 Sept • Edge Hill Uni, UK 👩‍🔬 Host: Dr Rachel Clare Talks from Prof Khutoryanskiy, Dr Coates, Prof Jenkins & Simon Booth, Dr Bruchmann + practical training (rearing, injections, dissections). ⭐ FREE registration closes 1 Sept: shorturl.at/C5GWW
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
⭐The Full Schedule for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is Live!🐛 🗓️ Date: 15th September 📍 Location: Edge Hill University 🔗 Register (free!) by the 29th August: shorturl.at/q6tXr 💬 Open to all researchers working with or curious about Galleria mellonella. #GMW2025 #GalleriaMellonella #3Rs
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New transgenics loading — watch this space 🐛👀 #GalleriaMellonella #Transgenesis #Microinjection
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🐛 Research-grade Galleria mellonella — hand-picked for researchers, BY researchers! Planning experiments for Sept/Oct? Get in touch now! ✅ In-house reared, no antimicrobial additives ✅ Hand-selected for quality ✅ +10% extra to cover in-transit loss ✅ Flexible shipping options 📩 gmrc@exeter.ac.uk
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Jennie Campbell @jenniesc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🧬 Does anyone know if the new amplifier sequences for HCR™ Gold RNA-FISH are available anywhere? Trying to track them down to plug into the code I have to generate probes in place of the old B1/B2... sequences. #HCR #MolecularBiology #RNAFISH #FISH
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Dr Jess Stokes @jess-stokes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Join @royentsoc.bsky.social for Insects as Food and Feed 📅9th October 📍University of Roehampton www.royensoc.co.uk/event/iaff25/ Covering insect protein nutrition, formulation and the UK/EU landscape it's shaping up to be a fascinating day following #BSFCon in September🎉
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Insects as Food and Feed (SIG) 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
Insects as Food and Feed: delivering sustainable protein to the food system Date: Thursday 9th October 2025 (09:15 – 16:30) Venue: Elm Grove Conference Centre, The University of Roehampton: Home – Roe...
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Are you attending the 20th International Xenopus Conference in August? 🐸 Esther Pearl (@drejpearl.bsky.social) will be sharing our work and resources relevant to research involving Xenopus, including improving experimental design and refining husbandry practices: nc3rs.org.uk/events/20th-...
Logo of the 20th International Xenopus Conference.
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Seána Duggan @seanaduggan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
📝Call for papers📝 I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis. Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible) If interested, get in touch! #FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases
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Fungal Pathogenesis: Mechanisms, Resistance, and Threats | Microbiology Society
Fungi are a major global health concern, responsible for over a billion infections annually and an estimated 1.5 million deaths each year. Despite their substantial impact on human health and healthca...
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🐛 Speaker 3 for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is here! 🎤 Prof. Toby Jenkins (Uni of Bath) with "Development of an improved Galleria mellonella burn model for studying burn wound infection" 📍 Edge Hill Uni, Ormskirk – Mon 15 Sept 2025 🔗 Info & sign-up: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...
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GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
Please register for free here:  https://shorturl.at/q6tXr . The  Galleria mellonella  Workshop returns for 2025 and will be held at  Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK  and will be hosted by ...
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎤 Pleased to confirm our second speaker for GMW2025: @cjcoates.bsky.social, who will join us from University of Galway, Ireland with a talk titled: ⭐ Interrogating Galleria mellonella larvae as an aspirant toxicology model 🐛 Sign up here: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...
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GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Back from Kolymbari, and had such an amazing time with an incredible community of lepidopterists #lepgencrete. Great to get the opportunity to talk about what we're up to with @gmrc.bsky.social and spread the word about the #galleriamellonella infection model. Can't wait for #lepgen13 in 2028!
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🌟Excited to announce our first speaker for GMW2025 🎤Prof. Khutoryanskiy (www.pevitac.co.uk) will join us with a talk on: “Galleria mellonella in Toxicology & Antimicrobial Evaluation: A PEVITAC Perspective on Scientific & Commercial Impact” 🐛Info: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonella-workshop-2025
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GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...
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James Pearce @jamescpearce.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Quickly coming up next though is a return to Greece - this time to Crete for the 12th International workshop on Molecular Biology and Genetics of Lepidoptera! Bit of a mouthful to say, but i'll be giving a talk on the mothy things we have going on with #Galleriamellonella at the @gmrc.bsky.social 🐛
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📦Galleria on the move! We label each dish with larval count + total weight. Safely packed and sent 1st class. Need high-quality, research-grade Galleria mellonella larvae for reliable, reproducible in vivo experiments? Lets chat! 🐛🔬 #GalleriaMellonella #Microbiology #Infection #ScienceSupply
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We are pleased to announce that the Galleria Mellonella Workshop will be running again this year. The event will take place on Monday the 15th of September at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, UK and will be hosted by @rachelhclare.bsky.social 🐛 Please join us! 🐛 www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...
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GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025
We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...
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Jennie Campbell @jenniesc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🧪🍻 From pests to pioneers — and pint glasses! I had a great time talking about Galleria mellonella at Pint of Science, Exeter last night. Turns out, The Very Hungry Caterpillar saw it coming… 🐛✨ #PintOfScience #Pint25 #NC3Rs #GalleriaMellonella #ScienceInThePub
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Jennie Campbell @jenniesc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
En route with some VIPs to #PintOfScience
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LSI-Exeter @lsiexeter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Be part of the great PhD community at the Living Systems Institute, University Exeter @exeter.ac.uk. Applications for LSI-funded PhD studentships are open until Monday, 9th June 2025. Apply now! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Jennie Campbell @jenniesc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’ll be talking about how Galleria mellonella can be a powerful alternative to mice in infection and immunity research at Pint of Science in Exeter at 7.30pm on the 20th of May. 🐛”From pest to pioneering better science”🐛 Tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/talkin... #PintOfScience #Exeter #3Rs
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Talking biology: From A(nimal research) to Z(oology)
A biomedical research lab might feel a world way away from nature, but research scientists learn a lot from the natural world. Meet scientists who are appl…
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Jennie Campbell @jenniesc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Excited to see this UAS based enhancer trap working in Galleria embryos!
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Dynamics of Cryptococcus neoformans infection in Galleria mellonella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Dr Jess Stokes @jess-stokes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🪲Know someone working with insects based in the UK? 🦟 Please share the RES Insect Welfare Survey with your colleagues and students! 🙌🏽 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... @hau-entomology.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social @insectneurolab.bsky.social @gmrc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social
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RES Great Welfare Survey 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
Insect Research Practices and Ethics in the UK Share Your Experience on Ethics Applications Are you a researcher working with insects? We need your insights! The Royal Entomological Society is conduct...
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Dr Sariqa Wagley @sariqawagley.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In silico study for investigating plastic-biodegrading enzyme sequences in the genome of the insect Galleria mellonella www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In silico study for investigating plastic-biodegrading enzyme sequences in the genome of the insect Galleria mellonella
Plastics are widely utilized due to their versatility and durability. However, their accumulation poses a significant negative impact on the environment. The biodegradation of plastics is a slow pr...
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 05/03/2025
Comparison of the virulence of community- and hospital - isolated Acinetobacter baumannii in HeLa cell line and insect model, Galleria mellonella. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #AccessMicro using a #PublishAndRead agreement: doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
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Galleria mellonella Research Centre @gmrc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trying out a new way of embryo mounting for transgenic injections today! 🐛🔬
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