GMRC UK

Resource for all things #Galleriamellonella - contact @thewakefieldlab

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🐛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: https://t.co/y55noPUWKY

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

🚨 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: https://t.co/zx77Uif8vc

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

🐛 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: https://t.co/JcUBoavoVZ

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

🐛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: https://t.co/Iz5KbwIAlS

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

Back here to promote the upcoming Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 for anyone still following us on this platform.

More info here: https://t.co/WTXgdxI0VR

Please join us!

You can now find us on 🦋 instead: @ gmrc.🦋.social

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

We won’t be active on here any more in light of recent events.

See you over on 🦋 @ gmrc . 🦋 . social

(We also hold @ gmrcuk)

[Jennie Campbell @JennieSCampbell]

Time to jump ship from here, see you on 🦋

@ jenniesc . 🦋 . social

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

Thinking about conducting some Galleria experiments this year?

Contact us about our research-grade strain: [email protected]

🐛 Laboratory reared WITHOUT antibiotics
🐛 Health checked
🐛 Weight matched

All for more reliable and reproducible experiments 🤩🔬🧫

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

@BurnResearch Yes it definitely is, ours produce a lots of silk and we’d always recommend untreated larvae. However some feedback we’ve had suggests people find silking a problem in their assays, or that the task of removing the silk is too fiddly/time consuming.

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

Getting somewhere with preventing our research-grade larvae from spinning silk during experiments 👀🐛

🐛 left - treated
🧵 right - untreated

[James Pearce @JamesCPearce]

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….

[James Pearce @JamesCPearce]

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

[Phage Papers @Phage_Papers]

Characterization of novel phage pK3-24 targeting multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and its therapeutic efficacy in Galleria mellonella larvae https://t.co/EkIz3zoO3x

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GMRC goes to Europe! (by bike 😂🚴🏼‍♂️🐛)

[James Pearce @JamesCPearce]

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

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

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

https://t.co/GzZS9FDLoR

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

Preprint by @JamesCPearce for the generation of transgenic Galleria mellonella and CRISPR knockouts:

https://t.co/UOplFXQJ5c

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Microinjection methods for Galleria embryos by our very own @JamesCPearce :

https://t.co/gahtoBtCto

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Some really interesting PhD projects making use of our Galleria larvae are being advertised!

Take a look:

New therapies for ESKAPE pathogens project: https://t.co/pXfOrfdkT8

Sterols and lipids in TB project: https://t.co/rQMPqIDkcI

[James Pearce @JamesCPearce]

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!

[GMRC UK @gmrcuk]

When your students are talented both inside and outside of the lab 😍

Thanks to our fantastic summer student Pippa for this incredible card! Over the last 8 weeks Pippa worked to assess different methods of hemocyte collection and fixation 🐛🔬