Hester Weaving

Post-doc at UC Davis studying malaria-resistant genetically engineered mosquitoes.

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

Disease-spreading tsetse fly fertility is damaged by a single heatwave, causing population decline. 🪰 ☀️🔥 🚨Read our new paper in Proceedings B🚨@RSocPublishing with @englishse @Lab_APE. See here: https://t.co/RjmeyeB1aU (1/6)

[Patrice Pottier @PatriceEcoEvo]

🚨New paper alert🚨

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We provide a guide, a literature review, and recommendations for editors.

Super fun piece to write with the best team! ✨
@RSocPublishing #ProcB 👇

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

Farewell to the EVE lab, the best PhD supervisor - @englishse, and my (almost) decade at University of Bristol! 👋

[Sinead English - find me on Bluesky @englishse]

Final EVE lab send off for @HesterWeaving tonight before she embarks on exciting science/life adventures (new country, new species, new techniques!). I will miss this wonderful human who brings me iced coffee on hot days, made an amazing tsetse mug, & set up our tsetse lab!

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

@DrLucyAlford @englishse Thank you Lucy!

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

@vasudeva_ram @ucdavis Thank you Ram! 😊

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

🚨New job alert🚨 I'm soon starting a post-doc at @ucdavis in the Vector Genetics Lab with Dr Greg Lanzaro! I'll assess potential impacts of #malaria resistant GM mosquitoes on wild populations and non-target species. Incl. exciting field work on islands São Tomé and Príncipe🦟

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

@ucdavis Photos courtesy of the VGL https://t.co/MMWjlUv60z

[Costanza Zanghí @CosZan]

Out now 📣 new paper from my PhD:
https://t.co/7QZZodSMEH

Big thanks to coauthors @C_C_Ioannou, @amy_e_deacon, Iestyn P-W & Martin Genner.

@CommsBio @BristolBioSci @UWI_StAugustine @GW4FreshCDT

Let’s take a trip together to the fabulous Northern Range in Trinidad 🇹🇹…

🧵1/10

[Sinead English - find me on Bluesky @englishse]

Really enjoyed the @RoyEntSoc #RESExtreme24 event last Thursday - thanks for inviting me! Such an interesting line-up of talks across the breadth of behaviour, physiology and different groups (pollinators, vectors). Congratulations to @HesterWeaving for winning Best Student Talk!

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Heatwaves are detrimental to fertility in the viviparous tsetse #fly #ProcB #OpenAccess https://t.co/8BbHZAaP6R @englishse @HesterWeaving #Physiology

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

@AmandaBretman @englishse @eseb_org Thank you Amanda! 😁

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

More insect species should be investigated to see if the patterns we found in tsetse flies are common to other less investigated insect species.🐜🪳 🪲 (6/6)

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

We also found that effects of heatwave were even felt in the offspring generation, with more daughters being born than sons. ♀️ ♂️ (4/6)

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

Ultimately, our results help explain why tsetse flies are declining in parts of their sub-Saharan range. This has important implications for sleeping sickness which the flies spread to humans, livestock and wild animals. 🌍 (5/6)

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

This is surprising, as for most insects male fertility is more sensitive to high temperature. 🦋🐞🦗 (3/6)

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

Disease-spreading tsetse fly fertility is damaged by a single heatwave, causing population decline. 🪰 ☀️🔥 🚨Read our new paper in Proceedings B🚨@RSocPublishing with @englishse @Lab_APE. See here: https://t.co/RjmeyeB1aU (1/6)

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

We found a three day heatwave reduced the number of offspring tsetse flies produced if either males or females were heat-exposed. 🔥 (2/6)

[Lucy Alford @DrLucyAlford]

Last few days to apply. Deadline 1st March!

[Hester Weaving @HesterWeaving]

@drtomneil @englishse Thanks Tom, many grapes were enjoyed!

[Sinead English - find me on Bluesky @englishse]

A very proud supervisor moment - my first PhD student @HesterWeaving passed her viva! (minor corrections) She's done brilliantly, publishing all 4 data chapters, navigating a pandemic, setting up tsetse lab, supervisor on mat leave for last year (sorry). Well done Hester!!!