Matthew DeGennaro
@MattDeGennaro
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Mosquito neuroscientist & invertebrate geneticist
Miami, FL
Joined March 2009
Want to control where mosquitoes lay their eggs? We discovered communal cues Aedes aegypti use to manage their population at breeding sites. Time to rethink skip-oviposition. @AndreSilvaAedes #Aedes #FIU
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Wrongfully accused: research acquits mosquitoes as carriers for Lyme disease | FIU News - Florida International University
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Scientists have cleared mosquitoes of any responsibility in Lyme disease, and say ticks are solely to blame for spread of disease.
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We are seeking a postdoc to work on glia/neuron crosstalk in health, disease, and aging using C. elegans as a model system. We are particularly interested in individuals with experience in C. elegans or imaging techniques. Email: lbianchi@med.miami.edu #glia #ionchannels #aging
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GLP-1 agonists have transformed life for many people with type 2 diabetes and obesity. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize honors Daniel Drucker, Joel Habener, Jens Juul Holst, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and Svetlana Mojsov for seminal contributions to GLP-1's discovery, characterization and
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Engineered commensals for targeted nose-to-brain drug delivery: Cell https://t.co/Vi135jhCim this is so cool- another example of why basic science matters! Congrats to the team!
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The Sorrells Lab is hiring a recent college graduate interested in neurobiology of mosquitoes! The position is ideal for someone interested in gaining skills for graduate school. Apply here: https://t.co/sOFTQV7Tpv
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I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research. Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵 https://t.co/QhkJ3Ylowr 1/n
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Mosquitoes upregulate heat seeking behavior to compensate for loss of Orco! Congrats to @_TakeshiMorita, @leslievosshall & team on this beautiful study now published (linked below) @hey_its_nia @oliwiagoldman @trevor_sorrells @MattDeGennaro @BenMatthewsUBC @LeahHouri
I'm excited to share my postdoc work in the lab of @leslievosshall! We characterized a novel cross-modal sensory compensation mechanism that mosquitoes use to maintain their strong attraction towards humans🧵:
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I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n
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#HatTipTuesday: our friend Dr. @MattDeGennaro and his team of under, grad, and post-docs are doing some amazing work @FIU. We're proud to be working with them to #FightTheBite. Click https://t.co/4niCNGg9nm to learn more about their research, publications, lab, and more.
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AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
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Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.
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Our open rank professor position in vector biology at FIU is now live! Please apply to Job Opening ID 534013 at https://t.co/ZfApsMz9uJ by Jan 5th.
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I am pleased to let you know about our paper that was published today showing hearing is absolutely required for mating by male mosquitoes: Deafness due to loss of a TRPV channel eliminates mating behavior in Aedes aegypti males | PNAS
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Attraction and mating between male and female animals depend on effective communication between conspecifics. However, in mosquitoes, we have only ...
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Always a treat to pop into the #DeGennaroLab and get a chance to catch up with @MattDeGennaro and his wonderful team of grad students, doctorates, and postdocs. Today we had talked about the research they conducted recently with our friends @PRVectorControl on #geosmin. #mosquito
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Our former post doc is starting her lab at Sloan Kettering. She's brilliant, kind, creative, and works at the interface of biophysics, cell biology, imaging and immunology, studying tissue infiltration. Very exciting projects. Apply to work with her!
🪰🔬🦠Happy starting my "Cell immigration" lab at fantastic @MSKCancerCenter!! #microscopy, #modelling #Drosophila #organoids. Looking for postdocs, students - come join us🫐 here in NYC
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"Nothing in vector biology makes sense except in the light of @VectorBase... and now the lights are going out. 💡🔌 #SaveVectorBase
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