McMeniman Lab @JohnsHopkins | Mosquito Sensory Biology | Mosquito Synthetic Biology |

Joined March 2023
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Have you ever wondered how mosquitoes find you over long distances and why they bite you more than other people? Check out our recent work published in @CurrentBiology led by @dags263 & @stephrankin2 in collaboration with the Macha Research Trust, Zambia. cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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What can we learn from the way spiders build their webs? 🕸️ Andrew Gordus's lab, @elegansdiversus, studies spiders to understand how their simple brains manage behavior, offering insights into brain function. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/202…
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20 May 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Monica Mugnier, 2024 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty… #bwfpath
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Congratulations, @StephRankinT, from the @McMenimanLab at @JohnsHopkinsSPH. This is a well-deserved advance in your career. Your students @Pitt_Chemistry will be fortunate to have you there as an assistant professor and mentor, and the @JHMRImalaria will miss you.
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Started by Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, the Vector Encounter is a unique scientific gathering that happens yearly at the @JHMRImalaria @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Join us on June 6-7. Register now, as it closes on 5/27. More info here: bit.ly/49Gahcs.
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Deeply honoured to have been elected a Vallee Scholar. Very grateful for the fantastic support of @TheCrick and to the amazing people in my lab. Excited for the journey ahead and what @TheValleeFdn will help us discover!
Congratulations to Crick group leader Lucia Prieto-Godino @neuroluci 🥳 Lucia - whose lab is focused on finding out how neural networks in the brain develop, function and evolve - has been named as one of the six 2023 Vallee Scholars! thevalleefoundation.org/news…
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Just in time for #WorldMosquitoDay ! Check out our new preprint led by Diego Giraldo @dags263 and Drew Hammond @DrewMarcHammond building a genetic toolkit to decode the sense of smell in the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

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We are coming for you malaria!
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Happy to share our work on octopamine's role in modulating malaria mosquito audition in the swarm to facilitate partner detection! Octopamine signalling in the mosquito ear can be targeted by currently available insecticides🧵1/n neuromosquitolab.org nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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In an exciting new direction for the lab, we (circuits.jhu.edu) teamed up with Cindy Moss (batlab.johnshopkins.edu/) and Mel Wohlgemuth (arizonabatlab.com/) to bring two-photon imaging to the echolocating bat! Excited to share our preprint about this work (1/13)
Spatially clustered neurons encode vocalization categories in the bat midbrain biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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This whole concept is just fascinating. Listen to hear what @McMenimanLab and his team did to gather the scents required to determine which scents mosquitoes prefer. It involves hot plates and sleeping volunteers and ... well, you just have to listen.
What scents are most alluring to mosquitoes? On today’s @publichealthpod with @SDesmon, @JHMRImalaria’s Conor McMeniman (@McMenimanLab) explains how learning more about mosquitoes’ scent preferences can help us in the fight against malaria. johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/6…
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27 Jun 2023
Having a great time at #LINO23 learning from many Nobel laureates and networking with other young scientists across the globe. Thanks to @JHMRImalaria and Dr. Peter Agre for sponsoring me to this amazing event.
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For as long as there have been humans, there have been mosquitoes buzzing around in hopes of a bite to eat. Here's what scientists say keeps mosquitoes at bay cnn.it/3r2Zg3u

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Great job Margot!
My first chalk talk is in the books!
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As promised...links for the two postdoc positions @LSTMnews BMGF funded project - Wolbachia in Anopheles tinyurl.com/pcc64bam BBSRC funded project - Wolbachia in Culex. tinyurl.com/5ac26dz9 Check em out, please share, and perfect timing to chat to me at #Wolbachia2023

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A quick FYI. If you’re interested to work on these topics the lab will soon be advertising two postdocs. One on Wolbachia and Anopheles, the other on Wolbachia control in Culex. Stay tuned for the link! Email or come and chat to me at the Wolbachia conference in Crete.
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Attention #Vector #Scientists! Don't miss the unique Vector Encounter gathering on June 15-16. #Register by June 12 to secure your spot. Get all the fee and info details here: bit.ly/3J0MWqp. #VectorEncounter @McMenimanLab @JohnsHopkinsMMI
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#Vector Encounter. #Deadline approaching. Register for this unique two-day gathering to discuss the biology of arthropod disease vectors now. Event is from 6/15-16. Fee and Info: bit.ly/3J0MWqp @McMenimanLab @JohnsHopkinsSPH @JohnsHopkinsMMI
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Have you ever wondered how mosquitoes find you over long distances and why they bite you more than other people? Check out our recent work published in @CurrentBiology led by @dags263 & @stephrankin2 in collaboration with the Macha Research Trust, Zambia. cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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As well as all the amazing MRT staff including Lewis Kabinga, Pebble Moono, Saviour Simbeya, Clever Munsaka, Komana Siasikabole, Alpha Simudombe, Charlton Munsanje, Boyd Mulala and Steward Choli for their expert assistance building and running the system!
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And our super collaborators at Johns Hopkins: Abel Corver @AbelCorver, Rajiv McCoy @rajivmccoy and Andrew Gordus @elegansdiversus, and most importantly members of the Macha community that volunteered for this study.
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