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🐛 With 2 weeks to go there is still time to secure one of the last few places for our Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferenc…...
Join us at the LSI in Exeter, UK for:
🎙️ 8th Sept: Research Day, inc. plenary lecture
🥼 9th Sept: Hands-on Lab Sessions
🐛Registration for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now open!
📆When? 8th-9th September 2026
📍Where? Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK
🎤Plenary lecture from Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland
Sign up: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferenc…
🚨 Last chance to register for GMW 2025 🚨
📆 15 Sept • Edge Hill Uni, UK
Talks from Prof Khutoryanskiy, Dr Coates, Prof Jenkins & Simon Booth, Dr Bruchmann + practical training (rearing, injections, dissections).
⭐ FREE registration closes 1 Sept: shorturl.at/C5GWW
🐛 Speaker 3 for GMW2025 is here!
🎤 Prof. Toby Jenkins with "Development of an improved Galleria mellonella burn model for studying burn wound infection" (co-authored work by @BurnResearch)
📍 Edge Hill Uni, Ormskirk – Mon 15 Sept 2025
🔗More info: gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonel…
🐛Pleased to announce our first two speakers for GMW2025, to be held on 15/09/2025 at Edge Hill University:
🎤Professor Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy - University of Reading/PEVITAC
🎤Dr Christopher J Coates - University of Galway
⭐️For more info & to sign up: gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonel…
Back here to promote the upcoming Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 for anyone still following us on this platform.
More info here: gmrcuk.org/galleria-mellonel…
Please join us!
You can now find us on 🦋 instead: @ gmrc.🦋.social
Getting somewhere with preventing our research-grade larvae from spinning silk during experiments 👀🐛
🐛 left - treated
🧵 right - untreated
GMRC UK retweeted
Now on 🦋 too, can find me at JamesCPearce (as on here). If you want to follow the updates from @gmrcuk that @JennieSCampbell, @thewakefieldlab and I manage - we're there too @ both GMRC and GMRCUK
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And one other thing for all zebbie folks….
What an excellent day @lifesciencebath @bathuni. Thanks to @bssrnk and @phil1pingham for hosting me. And what a great surprise that @stefarber joined. @LSI_Exeter
GMRC UK retweeted
Berlin was awesome. Fantastic to see @erk0199 doing well with his #CrisprGalleria, and very happy to be able to present what we’ve with been doing with #Galleria / @gmrcuk to a lovely bunch of researchers in the evolutionary biology dept @FU_Berlin
GMRC UK retweeted
Characterization of novel phage pK3-24 targeting multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and its therapeutic efficacy in Galleria mellonella larvae dlvr.it/TFHWJs
GMRC goes to Europe! (by bike 😂🚴🏼♂️🐛)
Off to visit @WUR and @FU_berlin in my @gmrcuk capacity! Really looking forward to visiting @EvelineSnelders and Jens Rolff’s labs after having the pleasure of meeting @MW_MartinW and @erk0199 during their visits to @LSI_Exeter
To accompany the release of yesterday’s pre-prints we have the second of our YouTube videos now live! Covering:
- hemocyte flow cytometry
- larvae dissection and anatomy
- embryo injection and transgenesis
youtu.be/DyEfCWmd-4U
Preprint by @JamesCPearce for the generation of transgenic Galleria mellonella and CRISPR knockouts:
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.17.6…
Microinjection methods for Galleria embryos by our very own @JamesCPearce :
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.17.6…
Some really interesting PhD projects making use of our Galleria larvae are being advertised!
Take a look:
New therapies for ESKAPE pathogens project: gw4biomed.ac.uk/developing-n…
Sterols and lipids in TB project: gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin…
Couple of cool PhD opportunities at @UniofExeter as part of @GW4BioMedDTP involving the #Galleria model, @gmrcuk / @thewakefieldlab or a combo of both for anybody interested in a bit of moth work!
