Takeshi Morita
@takeshimorita.bsky.social
Itching to understand why mosquitos always find and bite me 🦟 | Assistant Professor @fiu.bsky.social 🐆 | PhD @berkeleymcb.bsky.social🧸 | Postdoc @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social🗽 | https://www.moritalaboratory.org
🚨 Ph.D. Opportunity! 🚨 I’m recruiting students to start in the Spring Semester 2026 (Jan 2026) or the Fall Semester 2026 (Aug 2026) to study the behavior & neurobiology of mosquito-host interactions. Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Please share! 🦟 #Mosquito #Neurobiology #VectorBiology #Itch
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🚨 Ph.D. Opportunity! 🚨 I’m recruiting students to start in the Spring Semester 2026 (Jan 2026) or the Fall Semester 2026 (Aug 2026) to study the behavior & neurobiology of mosquito-host interactions. Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Please share! 🦟 #Mosquito #Neurobiology #VectorBiology #Itch
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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Takeshi Morita
New preprint from the lab, led by grad student Brandon Pratt, on the encoding properties and sensorimotor function of proprioceptive limit detectors (ie, hair plates) in the fly leg.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New preprint from the lab, led by grad student Brandon Pratt, on the encoding properties and sensorimotor function of proprioceptive limit detectors (ie, hair plates) in the fly leg.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Takeshi Morita
Paracantha fruit fly, just cranking the style slider to 100 and seeing what happens.
I love it, is what happens. 💛
I love it, is what happens. 💛
May 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Paracantha fruit fly, just cranking the style slider to 100 and seeing what happens.
I love it, is what happens. 💛
I love it, is what happens. 💛
Reposted by Takeshi Morita
Murder! In the garden.
(Zelus assassin bug with Mordellistena prey, Texas)
(Zelus assassin bug with Mordellistena prey, Texas)
May 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Murder! In the garden.
(Zelus assassin bug with Mordellistena prey, Texas)
(Zelus assassin bug with Mordellistena prey, Texas)