News

Olivia Mathieson, Erin McKenney, Aram Mikaelyan, Autumn Sylvestri, Aurora Toennisson (Author names listed alphabetically) The modern...

I’m excited to share our latest publication in the Journal of Economic Entomology:  Lethal disruption of the bacterial gut community in...

🎉 More Exciting News! Our paper "Chewing through challenges: Exploring the evolutionary pathways to wood-feeding in insects" has been...

Excited to announce our latest publication, "Scaling the Wall: Overcoming Barriers to STEM Knowledge Mobilization,"🌟 a collaborative...

Thrilled to announce our latest publication in Biocontrol Science and Technology! 🌍🔬 This research showcases the power of international...

Please join us in warmly welcoming Michael Welsh, our new part-time technician who brings a fascinating interest in entomopathogens and...

Exciting News: Our Latest Paper on the Genome of Arsenophonus sp. and Its Role in Corn Planthoppers Published in the journal 'Insects'!...

We're thrilled to share that our lab, in partnership with Elysia Bio, has received the esteemed NSF-I-Corps award, which will enhance our...

Congratulations to Marissa Cole on the successful defense of her M.S. dissertation – a remarkable achievement!! 🎉

Schwarz, M.; Tokuda, G.; Osaki, H.; Mikaelyan, A. Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut’s Contribution...

Haruka Osaki joins the lab as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow! Haruka is enthusiastic about the evolution of social behavior in insects!

🔬 Excited to share our recent contributions to the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative (IMLI)! 1️⃣ Mikaelyan, A., Torres, T....

Led by Tiago Carrijo, our latest commentary in Insectes Sociaux has just been published 🐜📖 Carrijo, T. F., Engel, M. S., Chouvenc, T.,...

We're thrilled to announce the publication of our collaborative study on controlling the larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus) a...

Delighted to share the publication of a our study on symbiotic wood digestion in the bess beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus, conducted by...

Melbert has crossed the finish line, successfully defending his thesis! 🎓🍾 Here's to your future, Melbot!🤖 We know it will be as...

NCSU undergrads Autumn Sylvestri and Sydney Baker join the lab as BeeMORE REEU fellows! Autumn will be working on developing...

Mavis Acheampong and Clara Tyson join the lab! Mavis is a lecturer at the University of Ghana and a USDA-FAS visiting fellow in our lab!...

We just published a collaborative study with the Schal lab on how Beauveria infects bedbugs and cockroaches: Ashbrook, A. R., Mikaelyan,...

Marissa Cole publishes an awesome minireview in collaboration with Javier Ceja-Navarro on the role of the insect feces in the evolution...