Joel Vega-Rodriguez
@jvr-lab.bsky.social
Malaria and mosquito scientist at the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH. 🇵🇷🏳️🌈🦟🔬🧑🏽🔬🏐🏋🏽
Postdoc opportunity ALERT!
Interested in exploring interactions between #wolbachia , #anopheles mosquitoes and #microbiome? check this postdoc position in Dr. Grant Hughes lab at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social
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Interested in exploring interactions between #wolbachia , #anopheles mosquitoes and #microbiome? check this postdoc position in Dr. Grant Hughes lab at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social
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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Wolbachia Biology | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Ready to make a difference in vector biology research? We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic researcher to join an exciting BBSRC-funded project exploring the fascinating interactions betwee...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Postdoc opportunity ALERT!
Interested in exploring interactions between #wolbachia , #anopheles mosquitoes and #microbiome? check this postdoc position in Dr. Grant Hughes lab at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social
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Interested in exploring interactions between #wolbachia , #anopheles mosquitoes and #microbiome? check this postdoc position in Dr. Grant Hughes lab at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social
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Enjoying a beer with my friend Gabi in a beautiful Aachen afternoon. It was great to see you. Thank you for the invitation and the great time.
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@gabrielepradel.bsky.social
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May 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Enjoying a beer with my friend Gabi in a beautiful Aachen afternoon. It was great to see you. Thank you for the invitation and the great time.
👩🏼🔬🧑🏽🔬 🦠 🦟 🔬 🧬
@gabrielepradel.bsky.social
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@gabrielepradel.bsky.social
Exited to deliver the keynote address together with Markus Ganter at the @spp2225.bsky.social EXIT Workshop in beautiful Aachen, Germany. Thank you @gabrielepradel.bsky.social for the invitation and hospitality. 👨🏽🔬 🦟 🦠 🩸🔬
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May 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Exited to deliver the keynote address together with Markus Ganter at the @spp2225.bsky.social EXIT Workshop in beautiful Aachen, Germany. Thank you @gabrielepradel.bsky.social for the invitation and hospitality. 👨🏽🔬 🦟 🦠 🩸🔬
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@rwth.bsky.social @dfg.de @niaidnews.bsky.social
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🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨
We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An Essential Adaptor for Apicoplast Fission and Inheritance in Malaria Parasites
Blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites rely on a non-photosynthetic plastid, the apicoplast, for survival, making it an attractive target for antimalarial intervention. Like the mitochondrion, th...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨
We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pre-print Alert! We uncover new sporozoite biology in mosquitoes, classified sporogony stages in oocysts and showed that sporozoites produce 2 rhoptry pairs, each one specialized for salivary gland and hepatocyte invasion. @benliffner.bsky.social @sabsalon.bsky.social @thiagoluizsilva.bsky.social
Our study looking at sporozoite development and salivary gland invasion using expansion microscopy is now up as a pre-print!
A little thread below about this interesting study that was born out of a seminar 🧵
@sabsalon.bsky.social @jvr-lab.bsky.social
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A little thread below about this interesting study that was born out of a seminar 🧵
@sabsalon.bsky.social @jvr-lab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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April 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pre-print Alert! We uncover new sporozoite biology in mosquitoes, classified sporogony stages in oocysts and showed that sporozoites produce 2 rhoptry pairs, each one specialized for salivary gland and hepatocyte invasion. @benliffner.bsky.social @sabsalon.bsky.social @thiagoluizsilva.bsky.social
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📢 @lstmnews.bsky.social : "Drug used for rare genetic disorders kills #mosquitoes capable of #malaria transmission" 🦟
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Drug used for rare genetic disorders kills mosquitoes capable of malaria transmission
Nitisinone, a medication already used to treat rare genetic disorders like tyrosinemia type 1, blocks an essential enzyme mosquitoes need to digest their blood meal, resulting in rapid death.The new
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March 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📢 @lstmnews.bsky.social : "Drug used for rare genetic disorders kills #mosquitoes capable of #malaria transmission" 🦟
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Look at those beautiful #mosquito midguts infected with #malaria parasites.
Congratulations @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
Congratulations @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
Ten years of bigger samples, better views mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/t...
Thank you for including our lab's contribution in your remarkable piece about what I believe is the most revolutionary method for studying tiny, fascinating apicomplexans. @benliffner.bsky.social @jvr-lab.bsky.social
Thank you for including our lab's contribution in your remarkable piece about what I believe is the most revolutionary method for studying tiny, fascinating apicomplexans. @benliffner.bsky.social @jvr-lab.bsky.social
Ten years of bigger samples, better views - MIT McGovern Institute
Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons they had seen under the microscopes of the time. With today’s imaging tech...
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March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Look at those beautiful #mosquito midguts infected with #malaria parasites.
Congratulations @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
Congratulations @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
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Congratulations @benliffner.bsky.social. #U_ExM #Malaria revolutionized studying the cell biology of Apicomplexan parasites, and I love the work we did together ;-)
March 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Congratulations @benliffner.bsky.social. #U_ExM #Malaria revolutionized studying the cell biology of Apicomplexan parasites, and I love the work we did together ;-)
This is so cool! 🚀 🧑🚀 🐬
Welcome home — hope you like the dolphins we sent to say hi
March 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This is so cool! 🚀 🧑🚀 🐬
New review alert-Mosquito saliva does more than just help them feed—it also influences blood responses in the midgut, enhancing Plasmodium transmission. Could targeting saliva proteins be the key to blocking disease spread? #Malaria #Mosquito #VectorControl
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March 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New review alert-Mosquito saliva does more than just help them feed—it also influences blood responses in the midgut, enhancing Plasmodium transmission. Could targeting saliva proteins be the key to blocking disease spread? #Malaria #Mosquito #VectorControl
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our 2025 March issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews blood impact on vector-borne diseases, zoonotic Giardia transmission in cattle, parasite subcellular dynamics, Bacillus thuringiensis for nematode management, heptalaminate membrane of intravascular schistosomes, trade-offs in virulence evolution, & more
March 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Our 2025 March issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews blood impact on vector-borne diseases, zoonotic Giardia transmission in cattle, parasite subcellular dynamics, Bacillus thuringiensis for nematode management, heptalaminate membrane of intravascular schistosomes, trade-offs in virulence evolution, & more
New Pre-print from our lab
High-Resolution Proteomics Unveils Salivary Gland Disruption and Saliva-Hemolymph Protein Exchange in Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes
Led by @thiagoluizsilva.bsky.social
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#mosquito #malaria #proteomics #infectiousdiseases
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High-Resolution Proteomics Unveils Salivary Gland Disruption and Saliva-Hemolymph Protein Exchange in Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes
Led by @thiagoluizsilva.bsky.social
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#mosquito #malaria #proteomics #infectiousdiseases
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High-Resolution Proteomics Unveils Salivary Gland Disruption and Saliva-Hemolymph Protein Exchange in Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes
Plasmodium sporozoites, the stage that initiates a malaria infection, must invade the mosquito salivary glands (SGs) before transmitting to a vertebrate host. However, the effects of sporozoite invasi...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New Pre-print from our lab
High-Resolution Proteomics Unveils Salivary Gland Disruption and Saliva-Hemolymph Protein Exchange in Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes
Led by @thiagoluizsilva.bsky.social
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#mosquito #malaria #proteomics #infectiousdiseases
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-Resolution Proteomics Unveils Salivary Gland Disruption and Saliva-Hemolymph Protein Exchange in Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes
Led by @thiagoluizsilva.bsky.social
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#mosquito #malaria #proteomics #infectiousdiseases
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New paper published with the Benoit lab at the University of Cincinnati!
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Multiple blood feeding bouts in mosquitoes allow for prolonged survival and are predicted to increase viral transmission during dry periods
Dry conditions increase blood feeding in mosquitoes, but it is unknown if dehydration-induced bloodmeals are increased beyond what is necessary for re…
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February 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New paper published with the Benoit lab at the University of Cincinnati!
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Check out our paper, co-authored by @akhorramnejad.bsky.social and me. Published in @commsbio.bsky.social
We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this.
A 🧵 with our results (1/5)
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We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this.
A 🧵 with our results (1/5)
rdcu.be/d8wse
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February 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Check out our paper, co-authored by @akhorramnejad.bsky.social and me. Published in @commsbio.bsky.social
We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this.
A 🧵 with our results (1/5)
rdcu.be/d8wse
We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this.
A 🧵 with our results (1/5)
rdcu.be/d8wse
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New preprint from the lab in which we show that Trichoderma culture supernatant kills Aedes albopictus larvae 🦟🍄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Larvicidal activity of Trichoderma atroviride (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) against Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)
Larviciding is an important part of effective integrated mosquito management. However, growing resistance to chemical and bacterial-based insecticides requires biocontrol agents with novel modes of ac...
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January 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
New preprint from the lab in which we show that Trichoderma culture supernatant kills Aedes albopictus larvae 🦟🍄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our article on #mosquito salivary apyrase featured at The Scientist Thanks Mary Ann McDowell for the insightful comments! “Targeting Mosquito Spit Could Stop Parasites in Their Tracks”
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Targeting Mosquito Spit Could Stop Parasites in Their Tracks
A protein found in the saliva of Anopheles gambiae stopped blood from clotting in the insects’ stomachs and aided parasite transmission.
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January 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Our article on #mosquito salivary apyrase featured at The Scientist Thanks Mary Ann McDowell for the insightful comments! “Targeting Mosquito Spit Could Stop Parasites in Their Tracks”
www.the-scientist.com/targeting-mo...
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Our paper on the role of #mosquito salivary apyrase in regulating blood meal #hemostasis and #malaria #parasite transmission. Apyrase #immunization inhibits both transmissions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mosquito salivary apyrase regulates blood meal hemostasis and facilitates malaria parasite transmission - Nature Communications
Here, Pala et al. show that mosquito salivary apyrase regulates hemostasis in the mosquito blood meal, boosting malaria transmission. They demonstrate that immunizing against apyrase inhibits parasite...
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January 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Our paper on the role of #mosquito salivary apyrase in regulating blood meal #hemostasis and #malaria #parasite transmission. Apyrase #immunization inhibits both transmissions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper on U-ExM for mosquito tissues (MoTissU-ExM) in BMC methods!
Great collaboration with @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
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Great collaboration with @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
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Mosquito Tissue Ultrastructure-Expansion Microscopy (MoTissU-ExM) enables ultrastructural and anatomical analysis of malaria parasites and their mosquito - BMC Methods
Background Study of malaria parasite cell biology is challenged by their small size, which can make visualisation of individual organelles difficult or impossible using conventional light microscopy. ...
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January 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Our paper on U-ExM for mosquito tissues (MoTissU-ExM) in BMC methods!
Great collaboration with @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
bmcmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Great collaboration with @sabsalon.bsky.social and @benliffner.bsky.social
bmcmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....