Lindsay Martin
@linzma01
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biology PhD candidate @ Vandy | mosquito physiology | disease ecology | she/her | views are my own
Joined December 2016
RT @VandyBugs: Excited to announce our latest article, with possibly the longest title ever. We demonstrate how warmer temperature accelera….
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RT @VandyBugs: Proud to announce our latest research! Warmer temperature accelerates reproductive senescence in mosquitoes. @VanderbiltU @E….
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To reproduce, most female mosquitoes must ingest blood to obtain nutrients for viable eggs. Global warming is increasing mosquito body temperature and hamper...
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RT @VandyBugs: New paper from the lab published in Journal of Insect Physiology! Activation of the immune deficiency pathway (IMD) reduces….
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RT @VandyBugs: Super proud of @VanderbiltU graduate student Lindsay Martin for being featured in an ECR Spotlight (Early Career Researcher)….
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ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career...
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RT @VandyBugs: New paper! Research led by Lindsay Martin with @SSMVANDY student Monzerrat shows that senescence of humoral antimicrobial im….
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Summary: Higher temperature causes an aging-dependent decline in antimicrobial activity following infection, accelerating the onset of immune senescence.
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RT @VandyBugs: Happy to announce our newest paper in Immunity & Ageing: Warmer environmental temperature accelerates aging in mosquitoes, d….
immunityageing.biomedcentral.com
Background Most insects are poikilotherms and ectotherms, so their body temperature is predicated by environmental temperature. With climate change, insect body temperature is rising, which affects...
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Thank you, Sarah, for your time and insightful writing! @swardluvspumice.
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Special thanks to @EvolutionVU for featuring our recent manuscript and sharing our story! Please check out the article by Sarah Ward to learn more about the impact of our work and see our mosquitoes!.@VandyBugs @VanderbiltU .
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By Sarah Ward, Evolutionary Studies graduate communications assistant Climate change may weaken mosquitoes by speeding up aging and slowing down their immune system. A study published January 10,...
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This is novel evidence that higher temperature accelerates immune senescence in mosquitoes (or any insect), decoupling chronological and physiological age. We emphasize the need to holistically study how climate impacts all insects and their ability to host/transmit diseases.
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We found that, individually, higher temperatures and aging both weaken melanization, and importantly, at higher temperatures, the aging-based weakening of melanization occurs earlier on in the mosquito's life!.
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We investigated how higher temperature and aging interact to shape melanization, an important immune response to infection, both in the hemolymph and the abdominal wall of of the mosquito. Our study quantified melanization in over 7,000 mosquitoes!
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Very excited to share my manuscript recently published in PLOS Pathogens, where we found that higher temperature accelerates the aging-dependent weakening of the melanization immune response in mosquitoes.
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Author summary Climate change is increasing global temperatures, and this is altering the ecosystems that organisms inhabit. Insects are particularly susceptible to temperature changes because their...
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RT @VandyBugs: Proud to announce our latest work: Higher temperature accelerates the aging-dependent weakening of the melanization immune r….
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Author summary Climate change is increasing global temperatures, and this is altering the ecosystems that organisms inhabit. Insects are particularly susceptible to temperature changes because their...
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Check out our lab’s new paper, led by my amazing colleague, Cole Meier! .We investigated the effects of photosensitive insecticides (PSIs) on mosquitoes across their developmental stages, finding that PSIs target the developing larvae but do not impact adult life history.
Excited to share my recent manuscript in Parasites & Vectors, where we found that sub-lethal exposure to photosensitive insecticides affect juvenile mosquito development and life history traits, however these changes do not persist into adulthood .
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It was great to share my work at ESA!.
Next up at #EntSoc2023 for the Hillyer Lab was graduate student Lindsay Martin, with an outstanding presentation on how temperature and age interact to shape the melanization immune response of mosquitoes. @VanderbiltU @EntsocAmerica @linzma01
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RT @Mozziebites: The discovery of a mosquito (Aedes vittatus) on Guantanamo Bay reveals how globalisation is threatening to unleash the nex….
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The discovery of a novel mosquito on Guantanamo Bay reveals how globalisation is threatening to unleash the next pandemic.
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