Insect Research Group, University College London
Jéferson is a PhD student at the University of Sao Paulo who recently completed a 6 month project with the Sumner Lab involving transcriptomics in the neotropical wasp Zethus miniatus
Femi Ezhuthupallickal Benny on ‘Insects as Food and Feed Conference’ (IAFF 2024) organised by the Royal Entomological Society.
Advancing Wasp Biocontrol Research: Insights from a Nanopore Sequencing Visit to Newcastle University.
Serian, Bob and Cintia were hosted by Prof. Tatsuya Saga (University of Kobe) for wasp hunting in Gifu.
Dr. Cintia Oi was invited to be keynote speaker on the European Congress of the International Union of Social Insects! Of course, to talk about wasps!!! Lausanne is a beautiful city, and the campus UNIL is close the lake! The congress was well organized, excellent opportunity to do some network!
Dr Cintia Oi on their recent visit to New York for the recent Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on the Biology & Genomics of Social Insects.
Lewis successfully defended his thesis, titled Mechanisms and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Social Insects, on 15th March 2024.
We are excited to announce the start of our BBSRC- “Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund” grant to help build next generation agri-ecology workflows and their respective communities.
We used samples from the Big Wasp Survey to analyse the population genetic structure of the Common Yellowjacket, Vespula vulgaris across the UK. You can read the paper here (Open Access).
Professor Fabio Nascimento visited the Summer lab in July 2023 as part of the Nerc-Fapesp Seed Corn project (NE/W004437/1) “Secrets to a Successful Hunt: Integrating Genomes, Chemistry, and Behaviour in Neotropical Solitary Wasps”.