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Holly Nichols

@holly-nichols.bsky.social
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🦟🦠Microbiology PhD candidate at UW-Madison | Interested in the mosquito microbiome, symbiosis, and public health | (she/her)

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Aldo Arellano 🏳️‍🌈 @aldoaarellano.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Excited to share our new paper out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social. We asked if environmental microbial communities can be adaptively modulated by host species that transiently acquire their symbionts from the environment #SymbioSky #MicrobiomeSky doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Host-mediated niche construction of bacterial communities in an aquatic microecosystem
Abstract. Microbes coordinate homeostasis in host-associated and environmental ecosystems alike, but the connectivity of these biomes is seldom considered.
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Holly Nichols @holly-nichols.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I’m thrilled to share my first review about microbial ecology + mosquito-borne disease control! Bacteria block pathogen development in the mosquito gut, but which bacteria will produce long-lasting results in the field? Let’s think about colonization and persistence in the mosquito gut! (1/4)
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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📣 Join us tomorrow (3/4) at 10 am for the upcoming #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar! Andrew Sommer from Coon Lab will be presenting on "Flies as carriers of clinically relevant bacteria in agricultural reservoirs"
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Holly Nichols @holly-nichols.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Finally joined bsky to share a fun article from our university about MosAIC (Mosquito Associated Isolate Collection)! Read more about this highly collaborative project here: news.cals.wisc.edu/2024/12/17/n...
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New community resource could create novel ways to stop the spread of pathogens carried by mosquitoes
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Grant Hughes @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Check out the new work from the MosSI lab in collaboration with @aidanfoo.bsky.social @laurabrettell.bsky.social @evaheinz7.bsky.social and heaps of others. MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies
Mosquito microbiomes have an important role in disease transmission. This study presents MosAIC (Mosquito-Associated Isolate Collection), a collection of 392 mosquito-associated bacterial isolates and...
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