The UM-ITF a non- commercial facility assisting researchers with arthropod transgenic and genome editing technology.
Rockville, Maryland
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⚡️Explosion near Moscow cafe kills at least 3, injures 15, Russian authorities say.
Russian officials have not yet said what triggered the blast, and the circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear.
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New ITF client publication! Congratulations to Mattew Wolkoff and the Meuti Lab! doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-0…
Today marks my 20th year at the University of Maryland and the start of the Insect Transformation Facility!
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🚨PASS IT ON🚨: If you live in any of the following states, you can still register to vote TODAY! Find key voting info for your state like polling locations at vote.gov and make sure to get out there and make your voice heard before the polls close! 🇺🇸
Check out this cool work from @samantsidis and @Vectorimmunlab using An gambiae transgenic lines we helped them create!
With some help from @UMDITF, we tested multiple candidate hemocyte promoters to drive fluorescent markers in mosquito immune cells. While not every promoter worked, we did have success with three promoters, SPARC, PPO6, and LRIM15
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Assistant Professor opportunity in Integrative Organismal Biology, broadly interpreted, @ZoologyUBC. Come join a friendly, broad, and excellent community of folks interested in all aspects of animal biology. Views aren't bad either!
12 days left to apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
ALT Mountains looking north from the beach near UBC
ALT child riding bike in Pacific Spirit Regional Park near UBC
ALT Pacific Spirit Regional Park (near UBC)
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📢We are hiring Professional Track Faculty Lecturers entomology.umd.edu/uploads/4…
Check out this new reprint from the McBride Lab!
New preprint from the lab with implications for olfactory organization in insects
doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.21.6…
If you are at ICE2024 in Kyoto Japan next week, come see my talk "Sand Fly Microinjection for CRISPR Mutation" Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 at 9:50 am #ICE2024
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Since malaria eradication, few studies have examined Anopheles in the US. In 2023, multiple cases of "local" malaria transmission in the US highlight the major gap in our understanding of Anopheles in the US. Here we examine their distributions in Iowa: academic.oup.com/jme/advance…
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Arthropod promoters for genetic control of disease vectors sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢Job alert!
Interested in mosquito immunity and genetics? We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study the role of mosquito immune cells in arbovirus and/or malaria parasite infection. Come join us! DM me if you have any questions. Please RT!
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📢Job alert! The Hamby Lab is seeking a Post-Doctoral Associate to work on a project addressing corn earworm management challenges in sweet corn. For best consideration, apply by April 30, 2024. 🌽🔬
New ITF publication with collaborators at Echelon Biosciences! "Transgenic black soldier flies for production of carotenoids" authors.elsevier.com/c/1ipqF…
