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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Congratulations to Tainan Guedes and Pedro L. Oliveira who lead this amazing work. Really happy to be part of it. The role of small Heat Shock Proteins in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and intestinal homeostasis in a Chagas disease vector | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This thread below is criminally under-liked and under-shared! Young #Drosophila researchers (PhDs, postdocs, and early-career Drosophilists): fill out the survey by Sept 1st to get matched with a mentor who can support you with your career. Established Drosophilists, like/share Shefali's Thread ;)

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

How can mosquitoes tolerate viral infections? In our latest preprint we show that mosquitoes that can regulate their metabolism after infection can tolerate viral infections better. Thanks to all the authors for all your ideas and contributions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Metabolic homeostasis favors tolerance to persistent viral infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

The mosquito Aedes aegypti harbors a wide range of persistent viral infections, including both medically important arboviruses and insect-specific viruses (ISVs). However, the mechanisms underpinning ...

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Cassandra Koh 🦟🔬🧪 @cassandrakoh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.

Illustration showing a graduation ceremony, with speaker addressing graduates: “Let the example of my fluke success guide nearly all of you to crushing disappointment”.

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It is impressive to see the lack of accountability but this is a common thing in many parts of the world sadly, not only in the Mack Planck. For future students and post-docs, inform yourself well before joining a lab, attitudes like this should not be supported

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Cassandra Koh 🦟🔬🧪 @cassandrakoh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hello new friends! I'm Cassandra, a vector biologist at Institut Pasteur and today is my official first day as a #newPI!!! My team will study virus-virus-host interactions using mosquitoes, specifically the influence of the mosquito virome on the transmission of arboviruses like dengue and Zika 🧵1/5

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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

if you have an interest in improving the genomic resources available for mosquitoes, please fill in our google form at tinyurl.com/MosquitoReferenceGenomes. please share this with colleagues who might be interested. thank you! [3/3]

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We are seeking mosquito biologists around the world who would be interested in collecting and contributing specimens of any vector species that currently lacks a reference genome. Aim: We are aiming ...

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Last week we @akhorramnejad.bsky.social publish a paper on how climate change could alter mosquitoes-virus interactions Here is a blog post in Research Communities from @springernature.com summarising our results using a less technical language and telling the #BehindthePaper go.nature.com/41fy80U

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Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger? How climate change shapes mosquito immunity.

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Check out our paper, co-authored by @akhorramnejad.bsky.social and me. Published in @commsbio.bsky.social We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this. A 🧵 with our results (1/5) rdcu.be/d8wse

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I have been visiting family and friends for the last two weeks for the holidays. So good to disconnect for a little bit and charge batteries for a new year

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Chloé Lahondère @lahonderelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm advertising several positions at all levels ( #PhD, #Postdoc, #RA). If you're enthusiastic, collaborative, and interested in the #ecological and #evolutionary dynamics of #infection, please get in touch - link below. pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/open-positions (image@origamiorganelles.bsky.social)

An origami Drosophila fruit fly. (image from @origamiorganelles.bsky.social).

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers. Amanda Heidt writes Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology

Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers.

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Ottavia Romoli @ottavia-romoli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Anna-Bella Failloux’s lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the spillover and adaptation of arboviruses to human-biting mosquitoes @institutpasteur.bsky.social. Send your application to anna-bella.failloux@pasteur.fr before Feb 28th, 2025! Come and do awesome research in Paris!

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I have never heard of this type of fraud before.

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Super useful for people like me migrating here

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Shaun Cross @shauntcross.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2

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