How do panesthiine cockroaches digest wood?
Schwarz, M.; Tokuda, G.; Osaki, H.; Mikaelyan, A. Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut’s Contribution...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Haruka joins the lab!
Haruka Osaki joins the lab as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow! Haruka is enthusiastic about the evolution of social behavior in insects!
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Sep 1
- 1 min
School curricula from the lab based on insect microbiology!
🔬 Excited to share our recent contributions to the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative (IMLI)! 1️⃣ Mikaelyan, A., Torres, T....
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Aug 23
- 1 min
"Lower" and "Higher" Termites - let's not do this anymore...
Led by Tiago Carrijo, our latest commentary in Insectes Sociaux has just been published 🐜📖 Carrijo, T. F., Engel, M. S., Chouvenc, T.,...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Controlling the larger grain borer using Beauveria
We're thrilled to announce the publication of our collaborative study on controlling the larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus) a...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Jun 12
- 1 min
Paper on Symbiotic Wood Digestion in Beetles published!🎉
Delighted to share the publication of a our study on symbiotic wood digestion in the bess beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus, conducted by...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Jun 5
- 1 min
Melbert Schwarz defends his PhD! 🎉
Melbert has crossed the finish line, successfully defending his thesis! 🎓🍾 Here's to your future, Melbot!🤖 We know it will be as...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- May 29
- 1 min
Welcome Autumn and Sydney!
NCSU undergrads Autumn Sylvestri and Sydney Baker join the lab as BeeMORE REEU fellows! Autumn will be working on developing...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Mavis and Clara join the lab!
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!...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Beauveria paper!
We just published a collaborative study with the Schal lab on how Beauveria infects bedbugs and cockroaches: Ashbrook, A. R., Mikaelyan,...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
The power of poop!
Marissa Cole publishes an awesome minireview in collaboration with Javier Ceja-Navarro on the role of the insect feces in the evolution...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Spooky comes to the M-lab!
Last evening, our knives tortured six pumpkins and gave them personalities!
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome, Cristian!
Cristian joins the Wiegmann and Mikaelyan labs as a postdoc on the NSF project to study the evolution of blowflies!
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
Ezra metamorphoses into a grad student!
Ezra (re)joins the lab as a grad student to work on blowfly evolution!
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
UGPN funding secured!🎉
Together with Bethany Hoye (University of Wollongong,) Daniel Horton (University of Surrey,) Martina Anderson-Smith (University of...
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Jun 15, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome, Becca!
Becca joins the M-lab as an research technician!
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Aram Mikaelyan
- May 22, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth joins the M-lab as a BeeMORE scholar!
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
Celebrating the holidays with the Mlabbers!🎄
All the Mlabbers and an uncomfortably large number of gnomes got together and exchanged holiday gifts! 🎄
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Boo!
The lab celebrates Halloween👻🎃 by watching Beetlejuice over Zoom!😊
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Aram Mikaelyan
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
NSF dimensions grant to study blowfly evolution!
NSF funds our dimensions of biodiversity grant on blowfly evolution! 🎉Congratulations to Wolfpack 🐺members Brian Wiegmann, Kelly...
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