We have to thank the LeafHope project! Ready to grow some biocontrol!

Lab on the wild!
Today we officially welcomed three new members that will be working in our LeafHope project 👏
Thomas 🇫🇷 (PhD student)
Florent 🇫🇷 (Postdoc)
Thierry 🇧🇷 (Postdoc)
They are all in love of poutine 🍟🧀💙

The LeafHope trainees at @canentomologist.bsky.social annual meeting! 🪲
5️⃣ Oral presentations
4️⃣ Posters

It was my great pleasure to share our @laurierbiology.bsky.social research with colleagues at @ulaval.ca @ulcriv.bsky.social! 😻🧬🌱

Merci beaucoup pour votre invitation, Prof. @edelplopez.bsky.social (PI of the #LeafHope project)! 🌿🌿🌿

Climate stations and sensors are on their way to our collaborator in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia!

Excited to kick off year 1️⃣ of sampling for our LeafHope project! This summer also marks our 5th year (Half a Decade!) of leafhopper sampling in Québec 🥹

Honoured to present our work on leafhopper genomics and microbiome to the MicroVec community (microvec-network.hub.inrae.fr/about-microvec)!

Grateful as well to be invited as the first international member of this growing network, instrumental in the next phase of our LeafHope initiative 🪲🧬

At Calgary for the @canentomologist.bsky.social × EntSocAlberta joint meeting! LeafHope in the house, with more of our lab and project team arriving soon 👏

I can’t wait to see all the insect science happening in Canada! 🪲🇨🇦

Cette semaine on a participé au Colloque du CSBQ 2025! Le labo était bien représenté avec Jordanne qui a présenté son projet de maîtrise et Abraão qui a partagé son dernier préprint avec un poster. Un grand merci à RQRAD, LeafHope et CRSNG pour leur soutien ! 🌿🪲

New in Sustainable Microbiology (@amiposts.bsky.social):

In this perspective, we showcase our LeafHope project and Canada’s pioneering role in microbial biocontrol. We also share key recommendations to accelerate the adoption of MBCAs worldwide! 🪲💚🌎

👉 academic.oup.com/sumbio/advan...

Last day of the @canentomologist.bsky.social LeafHope team 👋🏻🪲

Curious about our latest entomology research? Take a look at these links:

🔗Molligan et al. 2025: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗Santos et al. 2025: academic.oup.com/ee/advance-a...
🔗Jacques et al. 2025: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

LeafHope on the news!
Check out this article highlighting our BC group led by Dr. Lauren Erland, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Berry Horticulture at University of the Fraser Valley 🎉

Big thanks to Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 🪲

blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2025/05...

Nice highlight on the BC LeafHope Team monitoring leafhoppers in strawberries & blueberries in the Fraser Valley! @edelplopez.bsky.social

New year, new lab member! 🎉

We’re thrilled to welcome Ahmed Ben Hassine to EdeLab as part of the LeafHope project!

Ahmed will be tackling a big (and very timely) question: insecticide resistance in leafhoppers 🦗

Welcome to the team, Ahmed! 🚀🌱

Happy to host Zhongwei Zou as part of our #LeafHope seminar series!

He shared insights from his exciting and rapidly growing research program at Wilfrid Laurier University , focused on Verticillium and Sclerotinia. 👏🌱🦠

Connected by our canola love 💛

Congrats to Emily Foster for receiving an NSERC USRA to support her work on the LeafHope m & Environmental Resilience work at BERRI this summer. Emily started last Fall as a work study student on our cranberry warming project & we are so happy to keep her around this summer! #BERRI #USRA

Last week our leafhopper taxonomist Nicolas was at @usask.ca training LeafHope-Prairies MSc student Brianne under our co-PI Sean Prager supervision 👨‍🏫

Many cool results soon. 🔬🪲

Yesterday, during the IBIS - Université Laval Open House, our team shared our work and engaged in a productive conversation with undergraduate students—hopefully, future members of our lab 🤞🌿🐞🧬👏

Special thanks to Nicolas and Elisa that worked on this and to the LeafHope project 👏