I'm thrilled to announce that I've recently started a postdoc position at Virginia Tech, joining the @thevinaugerlab to continue diving into the fascinating world of mosquito behaviour! I'm enthusiastic to collaborate with a talented team and do exciting research on 🦟 🦟 🦟 !.

By the way, I'm leaving tweeter --> @mdessart.bsky.social 👀👀.

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I'm delighted to announce that the second paper from my PhD project has been published in Journal of Insect Physiology. We investigated memory formation in Aedes aegpyti 4th instar larvae. Thanks a lot to @CRLazzari and @aymordi !.

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In this work, we focused on visual cues, but invasive plants use multiple sensory dimensions, so stay focus for future work on other sensory cues such as olfactory ! (4/5).

We found out that if you're an invasive flower, you can hide among local flowers, promoting bees generalization, or you can be very conspicuous and potentially attract more pollinators. (3/5).

While COVID was spreading around in 2020, we were lucky enough to go to the Pyrenees to sample the reflectance of flowers. We then used a perceptual approach based on the neural mechanisms of bee vision to compare different properties of local flowers with invasive flowers. (2/5).

The last few days have been special for me as my first first-author paper was published in Frontiers in Plant Science and I celebrated this with my Masters supervisor @MartinGiurfa at the French Neuroethology Club in Albi, where I also presented some results from my PhD. (1/5)

We found out that if you're an invasive flower, you can hide among local flowers, promoting bees generalization, or you can be very conspicuous and potentially attract more pollinators. (3/5).

While COVID was spreading around in 2020, we were lucky enough to go to the Pyrenees to sample the reflectance of flowers. We then used a perceptual approach based on the neural mechanisms of bee vision to compare different properties of local flowers with invasive flowers. (2/5).

While COVID was spreading in 2020, we were lucky enough to go to the Pyrenees to sample the reflectance of flowers. We then used a perceptual approach based on the neural mechanisms of honeybee vision to compare different properties of local flowers with invasive flowers. (2/4).

A month ago, I enjoyed defending my thesis and discussing my results with @CRLazzari @thevinaugerlab. @JMeunierEarwig @Lahondere_Lab @aymordi. JC Sandoz, Mathieu Lihoreau and David Carrasco. Now officially Dr Dessart ! 🙃☀️

RT @RO_Mott: It’s not all work ⁦@2023Behaviour⁩ 😁 who knew so many behaviour scientists are climbers 🧗‍♀️

RT @p_clemenc: I've recently written a popular science article (in french) about the ecology and neural bases of escape in insects. https:/….

I designed an automated apparatus and we studied habituation in three mosquito genera. We are now using this system to investigate memory retention, pollutant impact, larval development conditions and more ! .Funded by @DR08_CNRS at @IRBI_Tours @UnivTours .(2/2).

Did you know that if mosquito larvae understand that a predator is not dangerous, they can learn to stop running away from it?.If not, you can read my first paper published in Journal of Insect Physiology with @CRLazzari et Fernando Guerrieri. (1/2).

RT @_AnimalTA_: More mosquito larvae 🦟🪱🦟 !.Thanks a lot to @martin_dessart for sharing his video with us! Using the same methodology as in….

RT @aymordi: Martin Dessart présente des résultats de sa thèse à l'@IRBI_Tours @UnivTours.Les larves de moustique comme bioindicateurs de p….

RT @CrisMarquezVega: 🚨3 POSTDOC OFFERS 🏄🏽‍♀️🌊☀️. 3 fully funded POSTDOC offers (4-year contract). Yes, 3 and yes, 4. Interested in doing re….

Yesterday afternoon was my mid-term thesis committee, with @aymordi @CRLazzari @JMeunierEarwig (virtually David Carrasco) @David_Baracchi and @MartinGiurfa. Thank you so much for your meaningful advices and for giving us your motivation !