Alison Blanton
@alisonblanton.bsky.social
Explorer of wide worlds—both vast 🗺 and microscopic 🦠🧫 | Microbial Ecologist | Insects, symbiosis, microbial metabolism
Very excited to announce that I will be joining the lab of Fredrik Bäckhed's lab at Sahlgrenska Academy in Göteborg, Sweden this fall as a postdoc! Couldn't be more excited to start this new chapter! Here's to new beginnings, and hello to all my European friends and my best to my American ones 🤗
June 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Very excited to announce that I will be joining the lab of Fredrik Bäckhed's lab at Sahlgrenska Academy in Göteborg, Sweden this fall as a postdoc! Couldn't be more excited to start this new chapter! Here's to new beginnings, and hello to all my European friends and my best to my American ones 🤗
Thank you to the University of Gothenburg and the Bäckhed lab for hosting me last week! It was lovely getting to know all of you, chat science and explore your beautiful city!
May 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Thank you to the University of Gothenburg and the Bäckhed lab for hosting me last week! It was lovely getting to know all of you, chat science and explore your beautiful city!
Dover Cliffs and Sky 💙☁️🌤
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Dover Cliffs and Sky 💙☁️🌤
After over a decade of late nights, graduations, conferences, published papers, and excessive caffeine consumption, I am finally Dr. Alison Blanton 🎊🥂👩🔬 8/5/25
May 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
After over a decade of late nights, graduations, conferences, published papers, and excessive caffeine consumption, I am finally Dr. Alison Blanton 🎊🥂👩🔬 8/5/25
Another year, another adventure at KEW in London!😊
May 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Another year, another adventure at KEW in London!😊
Reposted by Alison Blanton
In the effort to outrace insecticide resistance in Colorado potato beetles, a new study evaluates using growth-regulating plant hormones known as "elicitors" to affect beetles' behavior—a potential tool for use in "push-pull" and trap-cropping IPM strategies.
How Derivatives of Plant Hormones Could Control Colorado Potato Beetles
To manage the Colorado potato beetle, growth-regulating plant hormones known as "elicitors" could be a tool for "push-pull" and trap-cropping IPM strategies.
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In the effort to outrace insecticide resistance in Colorado potato beetles, a new study evaluates using growth-regulating plant hormones known as "elicitors" to affect beetles' behavior—a potential tool for use in "push-pull" and trap-cropping IPM strategies.
New preprint just launched on bioRxiv. Very excited! Thank you to the Ravenscraft/Armstrong labs for your years of support!
Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle
Symbiotic microbes play pivotal roles in insect ecology, including the detoxification of insecticides, reducing target host mortality and diminishes the efficacy of chemical pest control agents. Quant...
doi.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
New preprint just launched on bioRxiv. Very excited! Thank you to the Ravenscraft/Armstrong labs for your years of support!
Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Enantiomer-Specific Malathion Degradation by Gut Microbes of the Colorado Potato Beetle doi.org/10.1101/2025...