Ben Krajacich

Scientist @ Element Biosciences. Views my own.

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

Very happy to be a part of this work out today in @nature. https://t.co/dVUFkqad3w. Mosquitoes, long thought to be local creatures moving 1-2km in their lives appear to be able to move up to 295km in a night on high altitude wind currents!

[Bamou Roland @RolandBamou]

We report that high-altitude #mozies are commonly infected with #arboviruses, #protozoans, & #helminths affecting vertebrates and humans, & provide for the first time the pathogen-vector aerial network. @NIAIDTraining @CREID_Network @gatesfoundation @NIH
https://t.co/MsoRmFsh7q

[Roy Faiman @faimanr]

Congrats @bkraj and the Lehmann team @tovilehmann on this exciting paper: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in rural communities using blood-fed mosquitoes: a proof-of-concept study https://t.co/NzRNSzIho5

[Bamou Roland @RolandBamou]

Mosquito is amazing organism helping us to track pathogens and sars cov virus seropositive. Congratulations to @bkraj @faimanr
@pamcafrica @NIAIDTraining @NIAIDNews @gatesfoundation @COVID19Tracking @WHCOVIDResponse @crei

[Element Biosciences @ElemBio]

#AVITI now enables cost-effective, high-quality #sequencing across a range of experimental scales. A diversity of assays and individually addressable lanes are now available for on-demand sequencing.🧑‍🔬 Talk to an Element Scientist to learn more:
https://t.co/f3g7C42WFI

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

Potentially an impactful finding to the spread and control possibilities for stephensi on the African continent.

[Bamou Roland @RolandBamou]

An stephensi in Africa: why now? Could the high altitude windborne migration explain this? Why only human-mediated transport is hypothesized as the route of invasion? Response is found here https://t.co/QfVMqCe8E3
@pamcafrica @NIH @WHO @MESAmalaria @NIH_OITE @invectorcontrol

[Element Biosciences @ElemBio]

Is dog behavior heritable? Yes! Are common behaviors associated with specific breeds? Not so much! @eenork breaks it all down for us at #AGBT23, and shares that her Darwin's Ark study of dog genomics using low pass sequencing for genotyping works great on the AVITI!

[Francesco Baldini @Baldini_Fra]

Dried out but alive: how mosquitoes survive 8 months
👉 https://t.co/PGEhwRPeCW
@MafaldaSViana and I wrote this piece @TrendsParasitol on the recent work by @faimanr et al. on isotopic evidence of #malaria mosquito aestivation in the Sahel https://t.co/61nPNr1B8F

[Dr. Brandy St. Laurent @mosquitohunting]

Our An. minimus pop gen paper is out!
We whole genome sequenced ~300 An. minimus mosquitoes from Cambodia and found population structure, interesting signals of differentiation, and a lot of variation.

https://t.co/nOzVTTZQnB

Adapting the prev. thread, some main takeaways…

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@NathanGrubaugh https://t.co/Fh6f6EOwh7

In the same vein (but with bourbon). We've really liked this one.

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@NathanGrubaugh Great cocktail.

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@cmgrunenwald @MizzouBiology @UTKMicrobiology @EricSkaar @SauerLab Congrats, Caroline!

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

Out today in @NatureEcoEvo, @faimanr and Alpha Yaro present the next chapter in the mosquito dry season persistence story, using stable isotopes to show marked mosquito persistence between wet seasons.

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

👀Aestivation in mosquitoes 🦟: new research @NatureEcoEvo examines this form of persistence, which has implications for malaria ecology control and elimination in arid areas.

https://t.co/yoDaSJ1U3Z

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@ShirleyLuckhart Snow pool Aedes aegypti? They're more resilient than I thought!

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@EricCalvoLab @gvshrivastava Congrats all!

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@MeLlamoRooster Sorry, Travis. Hope you all mend quickly.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

And for those of you in the US looking at that last chart and saying "what resurgence? everything seems fine here", here’s a closer look at what’s happening beneath the surface of that apparently flat trend.

We’ve been here before, and I think we know what happens next by now...

[Ben Krajacich @bkraj]

@ProfDavidLSmith @lucytusting Yes I certainly agree, and looks like a great paper. I say it isn't "flashy" in the realm of gene drives, etc. that seem to get more coverage. I wonder how large-scale home improvement projects would be seen by funders.

[Dr. Brandy St. Laurent @mosquitohunting]

Last week we lost an extraordinary person and a fountain of mosquito knowledge, Siti Zubaidah, to Covid. Widely revered as “the mosquito lady”, Ibu Zubaidah was a crucial part of hundreds of malaria and mosquito studies across Indonesia and Malaysia,
a phenomenal entomologist.