Updates of the Insect Doctors research
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Assessing the risk of microsporidian parasites to industrially mass reared insects
13 January 2022 - I am Edouard Bessette, Early Stage Researcher 4 within the INSECT DOCTORS program studying entomopathogenic Microsporidia. I moved from France to the... -
Version of Impact of Bacterial Symbionts on Host Growth and Mating Competitiveness in Mass-reared Mosquitoes
03 December 2021 - To introduce myself: I am Alessandro Roman, ESR15 PhD candidate under the European Joint Doctoral Programme (EJD), Insect Doctors. I am from Italy,... -
Ready for take off: Set up and start of nudivirus experiments
08 November 2021 - My name is Jirka Petersen and I am affiliated with the INSECT DOCTORS program as ESR1. I moved from Germany to Wageningen (Netherlands) last year in... -
Exploratory analysis of the black soldier fly virome
27 August 2021 - Before 2021, no viruses were known to infect black soldier flies (BSF, Hermetia illucens). Research in the field of insect rearing has pointed out the... -
Rapid metagenomic identification of insect pathogen in mass reared insects
27 July 2021 - Newly developed sequencing and analytic tool identifies the presence of insect pathogens in less than 24 hours. -
Investigating the role of the microbiota in insect fitness
20 July 2021 - To mass-rear insects for food and feed it is important to maintain healthy populations, free from pathogens and disease. Most animals host mutually... -
Identification and tissue tropism of newly identified iflavirus and negevirus in Glossina morsitans morsitans tsetse flies
31 May 2021 - Tsetse flies cause major health and economic problems as they transmit trypanosomes causing sleeping sickness in humans (Human African Trypanosomosis,...