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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦
@edelplopez.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Université Laval| Canada Research Chair in Insect Vectors Invasions and Emergent Plant Diseases 🌿🪲 |Chercheur CRIV, IBIS, EDS | Senior Editor Plant Disease | CoFounder Pride in Microbiology 🏳️‍🌈 - Lab News: @eplopez.bsky.social
She is wondering when do I leave again 😅
November 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Back at @usask.ca for #CSPB_WRM2025 👏

Honoured to be part of a fantastic plenary line-up showcasing cool science across a wide range of plant research topics 🌿

Thank you Teagen Quilichini and the organizing committee for the kind invitation and for putting together a successful regional meeting! 💚
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A week in Ghent 💚
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I got a new headshot 🧡
October 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Joshua Molligan spent the last two weeks at the 10th EBAME Workshop on Computational Microbial Ecogenomics, hosted by the European Institute for Marine Sciences at the University of Brest 🇫🇷🧫💻

Big things coming in 2026 #ProudPI 👏
October 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Québec vote 🗳️
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Proud and grateful to have received a Prix d’excellence de la relève en génomique during @genomequebec.bsky.social’s 25th anniversary celebration 👏

A huge thank you to my team, who make our results possible every day 💚

And thank you @ulaval.ca for all the support! 👏
October 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Cover alert! 🎉
We made the cover of @entsocamerica.bsky.social Environmental Entomology! The first leafhopper ever, and it had to be the beautiful potato leafhopper 🪲
Bravo Abraao and co-authors, and to Nicolas & Florent for the patience behind this shot 👏
Issue 👉 academic.oup.com/ee/issue/54/5
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This week @jiaxuwu.bsky.social was representing the lab at the @cellpressevents.bsky.social : Towards sustainable agriculture: Genomics, bioengineering, and smart technologies!

He presented two posters and a flash talked highlighting our
research on the clubroot pathogen 👏💛
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Symposium on Plant Immunity happening in Sanya! 👏
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Full house at the Purdue University Botany Seminar today! A day packed with great science, lively discussions, and inspiring students, postdocs, and faculty 👏

Thank you to everyone who took the time to meet. Special thanks to César Escalante for hosting! 🤎
October 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating. I’m grateful for my little family, the close friends who keep me grounded, my team and colleagues, and the chance to do the work I love, striving to make a positive impact in the country that welcomed me so warmly 🙏🍁💚
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Pumpkins, science, and dessert! 🎃🧪

Farewell to our @mitacs.bsky.social Globalink intern, Luis George, and happy birthday to @jiaxuwu.bsky.social & Abraão Almeida Santos 🎂 I baked my first Cuban pudín—approved by the lab 😄🍮
October 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
See you next week, Purdue University ! 👋

Working beyond model organisms is challenging, but the discoveries are worth it 🥦🧬🪲
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We couldn’t leave Calgary without visiting one of Canada’s most stunning places. Moments like this remind us why we work so hard for a more sustainable future: to protect this beautiful planet 🏔️🇨🇦🌿
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Say 👋🏻
October 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Last day of the @canentomologist.bsky.social LeafHope team 👋🏻🪲

Curious about our latest entomology research? Take a look at these links:

🔗Molligan et al. 2025: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗Santos et al. 2025: academic.oup.com/ee/advance-a...
🔗Jacques et al. 2025: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Our @elife.bsky.social Version of Record is now out 🎉 : elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Congratulations to @sohambio.bsky.social , @asimjaved.bsky.social , and @jiaxuwu.bsky.social on this beautiful work. We also wrote an easy-to-read eLife Digest for a general audience 👏
October 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The LeafHope trainees at @canentomologist.bsky.social annual meeting! 🪲
5️⃣ Oral presentations
4️⃣ Posters
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Frost outside, leafhoppers inside, perfect day at the collection in Calgary 🪲
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
At Calgary for the @canentomologist.bsky.social × EntSocAlberta joint meeting! LeafHope in the house, with more of our lab and project team arriving soon 👏

I can’t wait to see all the insect science happening in Canada! 🪲🇨🇦
October 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is scary!!!
Please don’t go NCBI! 😭
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Back on the curling sheet after 5 years away 🥌

Feels great to be sweeping again (with our Saskatchewan bunny hugs to scare competition … spoiler alert: didn’t work, we lost 6-3) 🤣
October 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Last week our leafhopper taxonomist Nicolas was at @usask.ca training LeafHope-Prairies MSc student Brianne under our co-PI Sean Prager supervision 👨‍🏫

Many cool results soon. 🔬🪲
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Un Poco Loco 😝
September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM