Megan Fritz
@MosquitoDoc
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Associate Professor @UMDEntomology. STEM Educator. Fan of #opensource #openscience. Aspiring programmer. Scrabble competitor. Bird-lover.
Joined September 2016
RT @afpmb: 🧬 Groundbreaking pest control: Scientists create "toxic male" insects that reduce female populations faster than traditional met….
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Nature Communications - Current methods for genetic biocontrol of insect pests (e.g. gene drives) take generations to reduce harm. Here, authors engineered male fruit flies to express venom...
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Congratulations to Dr. Kate Taylor and all of our colleagues who made this work possible - publication just out in BMC Genomics! @UMDEntomology @umiacs .
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Strong and shifting selective pressures of the Anthropocene are rapidly shaping phenomes and genomes of organisms worldwide. Crops expressing pesticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)...
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The Fritz Lab is hiring! Looking for a postdoc project lead to investigate the role of structural variants in evolution on short time scales. Please circulate!
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RT @umiacs: See how @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz (@MosquitoDoc) is using computational resources in @umiacs to identify genomic changes in….
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~10,000 mosquitoes later, @BenoitArielle's newest paper is out! Congrats, Arielle! 🦟@UMDEntomology @UMDPublicHealth @UMDResearch.
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Relative frequencies and distributions of cryptic Culex shift with both season and characteristics of urbanization in Washington D.C. and Maryland, USA. In April and May, Cx. restuans are most...
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RT @DrVectorBio: FINALLY sharing our #AsianLonghornedTick success story - one of our #Tennessee #cowcalf producers made decisions that redu….
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Thanks to @EntsocAmerica for letting me join in on the fun! 🐛🐞🪰🦟🐝.
This summer Dr. Megan Fritz, Assoc Prof @UofMaryland, flexed her sci-comms skills at the Capitol, joining fellow @EntsocAmerica researchers to advocate for continued and increased federal investments in life-science research. @MosquitoDoc
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Congratulations @BenoitArielle - so many wonderful accomplishments in these past 5 years and so well-deserved! @UMDEntomology @UMDscience
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Jane Quackenbush, a long-time Fritz Lab student researcher defended her Biological Sciences undergraduate thesis with high honors today. 🎉Congratulations Jane! @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci
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Congratulations to Dr. Arielle Arsenault-Benoit @BenoitArielle, who successfully defended her PhD. dissertation this month! @UMDEntomology 🥳
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RT @UMDEntomology: 📣We’re recruiting for the following position: Professor and Chair of @umdentomology. Please share!🪰🔬📚 .
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RT @UMDEntomology: 🎉Mid-Atlantic Mosquito Control Association honors #GradTerp @BenoitArielle w/ the Bruce Harrison Outstanding Student Awa….
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RT @UMDscience: How can #PestManagement and technology support agricultural productivity and #FoodSecurity in the face of #ClimateChange?….
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The Fritz and Hamby labs @UMDEntomology are seeking a jointly held postdoc to develop and test genomic monitoring approaches for insecticide resistance management. Please retweet. @Arthropod_i5K @NCStateGenetics @GESCenterNCSU
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I have a new review out: Thanks to David Mota-Sanchez @MSUEntomology for contributing data from their insecticide resistance database!.
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Arthropods that invade agricultural ecosystems systematically evolve resistance to the control measures used against them, and this remains a significant and ongoing challenge for sustainable food...
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RT @UMDEntomology: Congrats @karinburghardt, recipient of @EntsocAmerica's ECP Research Award! Karin is a🤘⭐️researcher whose work helps det….
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Congrats to Jane Quackenbush for winning our Department's Ernest N. Cory Undergraduate Scholarship! 🎉Jane has made important intellectual contributions to our lab's research on the genetics of Bt resistance. @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci.
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