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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Students at Bluegrass Community & Technical College did an outstanding job determining whether #insects they collected using banana and vinegar traps were infected with #Wolbachia! 🐝🦗🦠 Check out some of their beautiful photos and gels here: wolbachiaprojectdb.org/group/bluegr... #WolbachiaWatch

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

🎇Happy New Year from the #WolbachiaProject! Thanks to our inspirational partners in education, over 4,000 students experienced the thrill of #discovery in Fall 2024! 🐞🪳🦋 🪲🦗 A HUGE thanks to @qiagen.bsky.social for providing 95 DNA extraction kits to classrooms this year! 🤯

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Happy Holidays from the #WolbachiaProject! ☃️ ❄️ 🦟 As you can see, we had way too much fun with @biorender.bsky.social

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🎉This week we are celebrating the 100th Birthday of our favorite endosymbiont, #Wolbachia pipientis! Check out this amazing article by The Scientist about Wolbachia's discovery and journey through research: www.the-scientist.com/wolbachia-tu...

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Wolbachia Turns 100: The Journey of a Triumphant Endosymbiont

In a century, Wolbachia has gone from a master reproductive manipulator to a partner in the fight against pathogens, exemplifying how a microbe can shape hosts and diseases.

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We continue to be amazed by the ingenuity of our teaching partners: The Wolbachia Project of bug splatter! 🚗🪰🚐🐞 Congrats to @brewerbiology.bsky.social and student researchers!

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

👨‍🔬Check out these impressive gels showing Wolbachia positive mosquitos from Hawaii community college! #Wolbachiawatch #StudentResearch 🦟🦠 wolbachiaprojectdb.org/group/hawaii...

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"We did this lab with the best care and followed every step to the T, so I believe our results are definitely true." -Student at Kohler High School in WI. Check out their beautiful gels! Great use of controls.🪰📷 #StudentDiscovery #Wolbachia wolbachiaprojectdb.org/dbpost/13865

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Watch out biotechnology programs and companies. The next generation is gaining pre-college skills, and we're already receiving new requests for schools to implement @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social since we posted this video introduction last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssrh...

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📢 Check out our new YouTube video, produced by Dina Constantinides, giving an overview of the Wolbachia Project and it's impacts for #STEMeducation and #Wolbachia research across the globe! 🌎🦟 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssrh...

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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project @wolbachiaproj.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We had a wonderful time engaging with PA educators and the PA Department of Education last week at the 2024 Integrated Learning Conference here at Penn State! 📚 We are excited to see how the #biotech industry grows in PA and how the connections we made can provide opportunities for #CTE students.

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