🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We've already shown mosquito infections vary by time-of-day, here we test whether infection of mice FROM mosquitoes vary in a rhythmic manner. We test this in untreated & drug treated mice as some fitness consequences are only apparent in stressful environments doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Think you have rhythms in your infection data? Where do you start? What even is a circadian rhythm? Does it matter when you take your samples? What is love? (baby don't hurt me)

Well the guest editors are here to help, we wrote a Hitchhikers Guide to Investigating Rhythms doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

We also collaborated on a paper with @samrund.bsky.social
using the malaria mosquito (Anopheles stephensi) where we show that the timing of activity is set to dawn and not dusk and some cool interactions with temperature. Circadian science rules! Mosquitoes are cool! doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

We contributed a paper where we investigate plasticity in the rhythmic replication of malaria parasites and the consequences on fitness. We put mice & malaria parasites in some FUNKY non-24 hour lighting conditions & show they can match short day+night cycles but not long. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Our visiting PhD student found a "happy" parasite. Though i think it's completely fed up with us!

Packing primary school resource boxes for our "Reece Lab on Tour" teacher training in the Aberdeen Science Centre next week (with SSERC).

Congratulations to our newest Doctor... Dr Catherine Oke!!