Takeshi Morita

Assistant Professor @FIU 🐆 | PhD @berkeleyMCB🐻 | Postdoc @Rockefelleruniv🗽 | Itching to understand why mosquitos always find me 🦟

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I'm excited to share my postdoc work in the lab of @leslievosshall! We characterized a novel cross-modal sensory compensation mechanism that mosquitoes use to maintain their strong attraction towards humans🧵: https://t.co/yRgVg1ISSk

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@sonalimali6 Congrats Sonali on your amazing paper!!!

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Excited to share what I’ve been working on for the last few years!

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@nipunbasrur Thank you Nipun!

[Takeshi Morita @_TakeshiMorita]

I'm excited to share my postdoc work in the lab of @leslievosshall! We characterized a novel cross-modal sensory compensation mechanism that mosquitoes use to maintain their strong attraction towards humans🧵: https://t.co/yRgVg1ISSk

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@Bautista_DianaM Thanks Diana!!

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Finally, if you are looking to hire someone studying mosquito behavior, sensory physiology, and development, please let me know!

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Huge thanks to my mentor @leslievosshall , and my co-authors @hey_its_nia , Ricarda von Heynitz, @oliwiagoldman , @trevor_sorrells , @MattDeGennaro , @BenMatthewsUBC , @LeahHouri

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@hey_its_nia

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@kbeattieneuro @briancapell @decouvriez Amazing! Congratulations 🎉🍾!!!

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⚔第二ラウンド⚔
背後から忍び寄り、、、

[𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗼 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘇𝘂, 𝗣𝗵.𝗗. @JunkoShimazu3]

May was Brain Tumor Awareness month. My family member has been affected and battling with this terrible disease for months. In Japan, there are only ~200 patients with Oligodendroglioma, which my family member was diagnosed with last year,

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@nipstah @LadyLordOfFlies @Mozziebites 🐭 , 🐟 , and even drosophila display some sort of itch-like behaviors so I would not be surprised if 🐸 do! Need some highly quantitative frog scratching assay for confirmation