This week we were hosting Dr Sabine Nooten from Wuerzburg University for the Departmental seminar and research discussions. Was good to see […]

We have 4 new people joining the lab in the past couple of weeks. Charlotte will be doing her MSci project with […]

We are advertising a fully funded PhD project on chemical ecology of bumblebees, via IAPETUS2 scheme: https://iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/floral-preferences-of-bumblebees-across-a-range-of-european-climates-2/ Please contact Lena for more details if interested.

Nyasha’s time in the lab has run out this week – she is off to Wales to be writing up her MRes […]

This summer we were lucky to host 6 undergraduate students: Eliza (funded by the Biosciences Dept scholarship), Esme (funded by the Biosciences […]

This summer Lena went on a NERC-funded fieldwork trip in India. We collected mosquitoes in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Udaipur – very […]

… about the new paper from Vosshall lab about olfactory receptor co-expression in mosquitoes. Read the full report here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/18/scientists-discover-how-mosquitoes-can-sniff-out-humans And the […]

The Q-system: A Versatile Repressible Binary Expression System Orsolya Fölsz, Chun-Chieh Lin, Darya Task, Olena Riabinina & Christopher J. Potter Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book […]

Genetic Toolbox Approaches in Mosquitoes Olena Riabinina, Matthew Quinn, and Joe P. Whitehead Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, doi:10.1101/pdb.top107691 Congratulations to Matt and Joe on seeing […]

A lot of relevant conferences happened at the same time this year, and we presented some of our ongoing work. Iman went […]