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! She is interested in the use of microbial entomopathogens and plant extracts for the control of insect pests and diseases of crops. Clara is a senior microbiology undergraduate at NC State who love insect-microbe interactions!

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How do panesthiine cockroaches digest wood?

Schwarz, M.; Tokuda, G.; Osaki, H.; Mikaelyan, A. Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut’s Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae). Insects

Haruka joins the lab!

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. T., Meiklejohn, K., and Weidner, L. (2023). Blow flies. IMLI To