Kerri Coon
@MosMicrobes
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Assistant Professor @UWBact @UWMadison studying mosquito-microbe interactions. Tweets are my own. She/her/hers.
Madison, WI
Joined June 2017
The latest instalment in our journey to create mosquitoes with designer microbiomes!! 🦟🦠🧪 “A cryopreservation method to recover laboratory- and field-derived bacterial communities from mosquito larval habitats” Great work @szymbiosis & @Mosmicrobes! https://t.co/FLMudnQYwc
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We took microbiomes from different 🦟species from the lab/field and transplanted into Ae. aegypti -> they responded similarly when the 🦠🦠were from lab donors -regardless of 🦟species, but far more changes to gene expression when using a field donor -pretty cool I reckon😀
When we swap their microbiomes, what do the mosquitoes actually think about that?? Take a look at our new preprint; congratulations @Shiva_hegde @laura_brettell @SQuek_001 Miguel Saldaña @EtebariK @SassanAsgari @MosMicrobes @mosquitomicrobe
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When we swap their microbiomes, what do the mosquitoes actually think about that?? Take a look at our new preprint; congratulations @Shiva_hegde @laura_brettell @SQuek_001 Miguel Saldaña @EtebariK @SassanAsgari @MosMicrobes @mosquitomicrobe
biorxiv.org
The mosquito microbiome is critical for host development and plays a major role in many aspects of mosquito biology. While the microbiome is commonly dominated by a small number of genera, there is...
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Beyond proud of my amazing MDTP students @NicholsHollyL, @Asommer101, and @aldoaarellano for their hard work and incredible talks at ESA this year! ❤️🦟🥳
Congratulations to #MDTP student @NicholsHollyL for earning 1st place for her talk at the 2022 ESA, ESC, and ESBC Joint Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC! Read the full article here: https://t.co/jJm7qBG2bk
@MosMicrobes #Entomology #Microbiology
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Applications for the assistant professor position in @UWMadisonMMI should be submitted by this Tuesday (November 15) to receive full consideration. We have supportive faculty with fantastic students across many graduate programs on campus!
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Job alert! Since our brilliant @vectorvish is off to new adventures with a PhD scholarship @LSTMnews (congratulations again!! 🥳); @laura_brettell @mosquitomicrobe and myself will be recruiting for a research assistant in Liverpool @LSTMnews! (1/3)
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Come and work with me at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! The Dept. of Plant Pathology is looking for a Nematologist at the Assistant OR Associate level. The research area is open. Applications are encouraged from citizens of any nation. https://t.co/PPx6YCjvNp
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My lab website is live!! https://t.co/Bw3GCD4cPL Next up: recruiting some awesome people so I'm not the only one on the lab members page 😂
thelewinlab.com
THE LEWIN LAB
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It’s a happy (and sunny) day here in Madison! Huge congrats to @NicholsHollyL for passing her prelims with flying colors!!!
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Huge congrats to all of the new fellows and advisers! Can’t wait to be reunited with @aldoaarellano after his internship @dermbiont this summer. Give your students the space to explore career options, folks. It’ll only make all the science better!
We're thrilled to announce the 2022 #GilliamFellows and their advisers! These 51 adviser-student pairs will join the larger Gilliam community committed to advancing science through diversity and inclusion. Come meet the Fellows! 👇
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.@BenMicrobesMtg #BeneficialMicrobesMtg looking for a postdoc interested in discovering and culturing creosote-degrading microbes from woodrats. Email me if you are interested in this cool project. 🐭🦠
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Follows on from our microbiome transplantation work. 🦟🦠➡️🧪➡️🦟🦠 You can check that out in the thread here 👇 https://t.co/Kkf5rJaehG
Our new paper… "Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes" https://t.co/rZjZNdpD1X
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Our latest step towards establishing a field microbiome in the lab. Here we show that cryopreserved microbiomes from mosquito larval habitats can be stored and reconstituted in the lab. The resulting microbiomes are remarkable consistent too👍 Nice work @MosMicrobes & @szymbiosis
What better way to celebrate the close of the @BenMicrobesMtg this week than to share our new paper?… "Cryopreservation of mosquito microbiota for use in microcosm experiments" https://t.co/1M8auuMRfD
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The sky’s the limit…and we’re working hard to continue to optimize these approaches, especially for field-derived microbiota. Stay tuned for more from us and our incredible colleagues @NicholsHollyL Miguel Medina Munoz @EvaHeinz7 @laura_brettell @vectorvish
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The same approach could also be used to cryopreserve microbiota for transplantation into different life stages or host species, à la: https://t.co/5To8BwFquz
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
Background Mosquitoes harbor microbial communities that play important roles in their growth, survival, reproduction, and ability to transmit human pathogens. Microbiome transplantation approaches...
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…or allow us to conduct REPRODUCIBLE intra- and inter-lab studies of mosquito-microbiota interactions to identify microbial targets for disease control.
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For example, they could facilitate the study of mosquito traits of interest in the ABSENCE OF CONFOUNDING EFFECTS due to microbiota variation….
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These results are exciting because they have the potential to revolutionize the way we approach vector biology studies as a field.
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We then demonstrated the successful use of this approach to produce experimental microcosms colonized by standardized lab- and field-derived microbial communities.
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