Christine Reitmayer

Lecturer in Infectious Diseases @KeeleUniversity • curious about RNA viruses, arboviruses, vector control • views are my own • she/her

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

I am immensely grateful for this opportunity and very much looking forward to start working on this project. Thank you to everybody who helped me making this possible.

[Keele University 🐿️ @KeeleUniversity]

Huge congratulations to Keele��s Dr Christine Reitmayer, who has received a prestigious fellowship from @UKRI_News to advance her work studying new ways of halting the spread of deadly mosquito-borne disease 👏

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/PVxTD4qQdE

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

Grateful to everybody involved, for their hard work, excitement and dedication. Here’s to interesting science and some great friendships as an output.

[Arthropod Genetics @ArthropodGen]

Very happy to share this work with everyone - mimicking superinfection exclusion as a refractory mechanism against alphaviruses in mosquitoes.
@AlpheyLab @ChrisReitmayer @ArbovirusAlba
@Pirbright_Inst
https://t.co/iBlFOeLpuP

[Arthropod Genetics @ArthropodGen]

Engineered death upon infection! Check out this pre-print describing a ZIKV responsive sensor coupled to a lethal effector in Aedes aegypti. @ArthropodGen's @ChrisReitmayer, Emily Levitt, @AlpheyLab, @ArbovirusAlba https://t.co/B7qrxm0PBC

[Arthropod Genetics @ArthropodGen]

Out in PNAS today! Our paper showing how the female sex-determination system in diamondback moth (PxyFem) evolved through retrotransposition of an existing male-determining gene (PxyMasc).
https://t.co/W8PgZb49Pp

[Arbovirus Seminars @ArbovirusS]

🚨Hi everyone, there is an #arbovirus meeting on next week featuring some fantastic science and good presenters, organised by Andres Merits. It's a hybrid meeting that is on location 🇪🇪, or accessed by zoom. Highly recommended!🚨

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

Today marks exactly two months to go before I’ll start my alp crossing. So from now on, I’m not only packing an apple but also some diving weights in my ‘up and down the hills hike after work’ backpack.

[Robbie Girling 🇺🇦 @RobbieGirling]

*NEW PAPER* We've just published a field study paper providing the first field evidence that diesel exhaust has direct impacts on honey bees reducing colony fitness @NERCscience @newman__tracey @ChrisReitmayer @UniofReading @unisouthampton @UniRdg_SAPD
https://t.co/1ULld7wBK1

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

Interested in mosquito research? We’re looking for a motivated person to join us at this exciting, final stage of the project when years of work all come together.

[Alphey Lab @AlpheyLab]

Come and work with us (within the Arthropod Refractory Team) in the New Year:
https://t.co/JNen0cuRHj

[Alphey Lab @AlpheyLab]

We have a highly active Cas9 expressing diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) line which shows 100% mosaicism and some germline activity. We would be happy to share this with the research community. Please message us ASAP if you are interested. Happy Friday!

[Communications Biology @CommsBio]

@ChrisReitmayer @CourtneyMurdoc3 @MossieCator @Harrington_lab explore mating strategy and immune response in the yellow fever mosquito, finding that harmonic convergence predicts offspring immune responses, and to a stronger degree in males than females. https://t.co/ooJcNu9UYe

[The Pirbright Institute @Pirbright_Inst]

Diamondback moths are highly invasive pests of brassicas, costing upwards of US $5 billion a year in damage and control measures. Resistant to most classes of insecticides, this genetic control method could hold the key to reducing their impact https://t.co/Z0CSO7hsn5 @AlpheyLab

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

What a fun project this was to work on.

[Alphey Lab @AlpheyLab]

Out today, our paper reviewing the role of Culex quinquefasciatus as an invasive threat to island bird communities and options for its genetic control:
https://t.co/EtKJ1ghbtd

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

I know viruses aren’t most people’s favourite topic at the moment - but these are delicious!

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

Ah, the ‘miracle of science’! And I always thought it was the hard work and dedication of scientists.

[Laura_Harrington @Harrington_lab]

Our new publication "Considerations for Human Blood-Feeding and Arthropod Exposure in Vector Biology Research: An Essential Tool for Investigations and Disease Control" is out. I hope this will be a useful resource for our VBD research community! https://t.co/sx1tiU1tng

[Alphey Lab @AlpheyLab]

Out now: New tools for gene drive. We identified two eye pigmentation genes in the diamondback moth and used CRISPR to characterise their knockout phenotypes. @xux41423947

https://t.co/MpiynhHBCB

[Christine Reitmayer @ChrisReitmayer]

And ending the press conference by coughing into his hand...

[The Pirbright Institute @Pirbright_Inst]

Pirbright begins essential animal trials for new COVID-19 #vaccines developed by @UniofOxford to help combat the #pandemic https://t.co/VTRqjMx39r @PHE_uk @BBSRC #COVID19