Last friday, our colleague Luis Hernández-Pelegrín (@luis_her_pel ) defended his PhD thesis entitled "Covert infections with RNA viruses in the Mediterranean fruit fly" in the Insect Doctors program, supervised by Salva Herrero and @VeraIDRos . Excellent job and defence, Luis !

Exciting meeting in Córdoba! More than 400 researchers informed about the last discoveries mainly in plant parasitic and entomopathogenic nematodes. Our group had a relevant participation, with Yolanda Bel and Baltasar Escriche as representatives!

Baltasar and Yolanda finished up their cool project for the EU by talking about their study on how plant bug fighters (nematodes) can be controlled with Bt. It was the last meeting of the EcoStack project in Naples, like the grand finale of the project! 🌱🔬🎉

Sergio Redondo is joining our lab and will pursue a PhD with an FPI grant associated with the project "Optimizing Bacillus thuringiensis-based bioinsecticides for the control of European Spodoptera species and addressing the threat of Spodoptera frugiperda in Spain (OBTES)".

Nuestro compañero @Benavent_Luis Luis defiende hoy la tesis titulada" Mecanismos de resistencia a piretroides en ácaros depredadores", dirigida por @Joeltwity . ¡Mucha suerte! 👨‍🎓

Thesis Defence: Pyretroid resistance in Varroa destructor. Investigating the role of mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel. 🐝 Directed by @Joeltwity

Today, @Dani_Pinos is defending the thesis titled "The mighty Bt: interactions between pests and pesticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis". Good luck!

Today is the Thesis Defence of our partner Yudong Quan entitled" Studies on the insecticidal mechanism of Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3Aa and Cry proteins" Good Luck! #Thesis

Attending the SIP meeting! #SIP

Ready to defend @GimenezLlopis! #Baculovirus #PhDthesis

Conocer cómo evoluciona la resistencia a piretroides en el parásito de las abejas, Varroa destructor, nos permitirá diseñar herramientas para su mejor control. Gran trabajo de nuestros compañeros @MillanAnabel1 @osmarvaz86 @Joeltwity !!