@MosquitoDoc

Associate Professor @UMDEntomology. STEM Educator. Fan of #opensource #openscience. Aspiring programmer. Scrabble competitor. Bird-lover.

Joined September 2016
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🧬 Groundbreaking pest control: Scientists create "toxic male" insects that reduce female populations faster than traditional methods. Could help fight disease-carrying bugs like mosquitoes! nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduce female lifespan

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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The Fritz Lab is hiring!
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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 bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.co…

Polygenic response to selection by transgenic Bt-expressing crops in wild Helicoverpa zea and...

BMC Genomics - Strong and shifting selective pressures of the Anthropocene are rapidly shaping phenomes and genomes of organisms worldwide. Crops expressing pesticidal proteins from Bacillus...

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Megan Fritz retweeted
CBCB_UMD@CBCB_UMD21 Oct 2024
Supported by a @USDA grant, two @CBCB_UMD researchers are studying the corn earworm's resistance to non-chemical pesticides. Their findings could improve pest management and help sustain crop protection while preventing a tragedy of the commons. Read More: go.umd.edu/1sw7
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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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UMIACS
@umiacs22 Mar 2024
See how @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz (@MosquitoDoc) is using computational resources in @umiacs to identify genomic changes in the corn earworm—considered the costliest crop pest in North America—that make it more resistant to pest management practices. go.umd.edu/Fritz
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~10,000 mosquitoes later, @BenoitArielle's newest paper is out! Congrats, Arielle! 🦟besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… @UMDEntomology @UMDPublicHealth @UMDResearch

Spatiotemporal organization of cryptic North American Culex species along an urbanization gradient

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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FINALLY sharing our #AsianLonghornedTick success story - one of our #Tennessee #cowcalf producers made decisions that reduced ticks on their farm. We know it's just one farm, but we hope w/ more farms (& $ to work on farms) we can replicate it at others. academic.oup.com/jme/advance…
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Thanks to @EntsocAmerica for letting me join in on the fun! 🐛🐞🪰🦟🐝
UMD Entomology@UMDEntomology25 Aug 2023
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 go.umd.edu/3OV2Kgy
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Another summer, another fantastic research experience with the @UMD_AGNR SOARE program
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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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📣We’re recruiting for the following position: Professor and Chair of @umdentomology. Please share!🪰🔬📚
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🎉Mid-Atlantic Mosquito Control Association honors #GradTerp @BenoitArielle w/ the Bruce Harrison Outstanding Student Award. Congrats Arielle on this recognition of your research into the community composition & landscape genomics of #mosquitoes across a heterogeneous landscape.
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UMD Science@UMDscience15 Nov 2022
How can #PestManagement and technology support agricultural productivity and #FoodSecurity in the face of #ClimateChange? Find out at @aaas' Riley Memorial Lecture, where @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz will be speaking on a panel! Register now: aaas.org/riley-lecture
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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: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Thanks to David Mota-Sanchez @MSUEntomology for contributing data from their insecticide resistance database!

Utility and challenges of using whole‐genome resequencing to detect emerging insect and mite...

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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Congrats @karinburghardt, recipient of @EntsocAmerica's ECP Research Award! Karin is a🤘⭐️researcher whose work helps determine activities that allow humans to share spaces w/ a variety of native flora and fauna and maintain vital ecosystem functions. go.umd.edu/cAE
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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. entomology.umd.edu/news/fall… @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci
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