It currenly only shows #Medfly (Ceratitis capitata) and #OrientalFruitFly (Bactrocera dorsalis), but hoping to add more study species over time.
November 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
It currenly only shows #Medfly (Ceratitis capitata) and #OrientalFruitFly (Bactrocera dorsalis), but hoping to add more study species over time.
Fantastic fruit fly filled open day at UEA. In one of the happy places when I get to talk people’s ears offs about all the fruit flies and what we can do🪰🍎🦠
#Research #Medfly #Drosophila
#Research #Medfly #Drosophila
October 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Fantastic fruit fly filled open day at UEA. In one of the happy places when I get to talk people’s ears offs about all the fruit flies and what we can do🪰🍎🦠
#Research #Medfly #Drosophila
#Research #Medfly #Drosophila
🚨 Two funded PhD positions at UEA, both starting Oct 2027
🧬 Engineering gene drives to suppress medfly (deadline 30 Nov)
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng...
🪰 Why do medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides? (deadline 16 Dec)
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🧬 Engineering gene drives to suppress medfly (deadline 30 Nov)
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng...
🪰 Why do medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides? (deadline 16 Dec)
aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
October 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
🚨 Two funded PhD positions at UEA, both starting Oct 2027
🧬 Engineering gene drives to suppress medfly (deadline 30 Nov)
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng...
🪰 Why do medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides? (deadline 16 Dec)
aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
🧬 Engineering gene drives to suppress medfly (deadline 30 Nov)
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng...
🪰 Why do medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides? (deadline 16 Dec)
aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
The NRP DTP Programme is accepting applications now. Join the Research Park and the University of East Anglia: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng...
Engineering gene drives for pest insect suppression (CHAPMAN_U27DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Mediterranean fruitfly (medfly) is a global agricultural pest that causes annual billion-dollar losses and threatens food security. It is predicted to spread to the UK within the next 2 decades due to...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 13, 2026 at 8:26 AM
The NRP DTP Programme is accepting applications now. Join the Research Park and the University of East Anglia: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/eng...
📢 PhD alert! Funded 4-year PhD with @aries-dtp.bsky.social at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides. #CRISPR, #microbiome sequencing: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
📅 Deadline: 16 Dec 2026
🎓 Start: 1 Oct 2027
#PhD #FundedPhD@aries-dtp.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 16 Dec 2026
🎓 Start: 1 Oct 2027
#PhD #FundedPhD@aries-dtp.bsky.social
Cloaks and Daggers: Fitness Effects of Ceratotoxin Antimicrobials In A Global Fruitfly Pest | Aries
Professor Tracey Chapman, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia – contact me Dr William Nash, UEA Dr Phil Leftwich, UEA Dr Emily Fowler, UEA Dr Lucy Friend (RA), UEA In all species…
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October 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
📢 PhD alert! Funded 4-year PhD with @aries-dtp.bsky.social at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Medfly mothers coat their eggs in antimicrobial peptides. #CRISPR, #microbiome sequencing: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
📅 Deadline: 16 Dec 2026
🎓 Start: 1 Oct 2027
#PhD #FundedPhD@aries-dtp.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 16 Dec 2026
🎓 Start: 1 Oct 2027
#PhD #FundedPhD@aries-dtp.bsky.social
NASPA Word of the Day: FLEDGY adj covered with feathers. Typo:fledge. Blanagrams:Agedly Medfly deAfly defTly edgIly fOdgel fUgled flAyed fleyEd flyTed gAdfly gOlfed gUlfed gleyEd. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl
September 14, 2026 at 12:55 PM
NASPA Word of the Day: FLEDGY adj covered with feathers. Typo:fledge. Blanagrams:Agedly Medfly deAfly defTly edgIly fOdgel fUgled flAyed fleyEd flyTed gAdfly gOlfed gUlfed gleyEd. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl
Back in the day, we used to get big-time warnings before medfly spraying, which was at night so most people could stay indoors. But I don't know anymore.
June 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Back in the day, we used to get big-time warnings before medfly spraying, which was at night so most people could stay indoors. But I don't know anymore.
Parts of Santa Clara County placed under quarantine for invasive Mediterranean fruit fly—The Medfly targets more than 250 varieties of produce by laying eggs inside that hatch into maggots and… www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/22/p... @caelynpender.bsky.social @mercurynews.com
Parts of Santa Clara County placed under quarantine for invasive Mediterranean fruit fly
Medflies can ruin more than 250 types of produce by laying eggs inside that hatch into maggots.
www.mercurynews.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Parts of Santa Clara County placed under quarantine for invasive Mediterranean fruit fly—The Medfly targets more than 250 varieties of produce by laying eggs inside that hatch into maggots and… www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/22/p... @caelynpender.bsky.social @mercurynews.com
That plane is part of the California Medfly prevention program. You can literally Google the tail number. Also if the military was trying to do some nefarious plot spraying airborne chemicals you think they'd be squawking their full ass registration?
www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/p...
www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/p...
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
That plane is part of the California Medfly prevention program. You can literally Google the tail number. Also if the military was trying to do some nefarious plot spraying airborne chemicals you think they'd be squawking their full ass registration?
www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/p...
www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/p...
Was really impressed with the picture of a Medfly that the 5yo (×4+4) drew today. What an artist!
Would you be able to tell if I didn’t say?? #Medfly #Tephritid
Would you be able to tell if I didn’t say?? #Medfly #Tephritid
August 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Was really impressed with the picture of a Medfly that the 5yo (×4+4) drew today. What an artist!
Would you be able to tell if I didn’t say?? #Medfly #Tephritid
Would you be able to tell if I didn’t say?? #Medfly #Tephritid
Help please science people! Is this worryingly off? Amplification of V1-V9 of 16S rRNA. It should amplify at 1465 bp, but has amplified at > 1500 bp… 0.8% gel, 90V for 60 mins, DNA samples of Medfly tissues. I think am too naive to know if it is ok… Thank you! #PCR #MolecularBiology #Microbiome
June 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Help please science people! Is this worryingly off? Amplification of V1-V9 of 16S rRNA. It should amplify at 1465 bp, but has amplified at > 1500 bp… 0.8% gel, 90V for 60 mins, DNA samples of Medfly tissues. I think am too naive to know if it is ok… Thank you! #PCR #MolecularBiology #Microbiome
Happy #Caturday !!
I saw this cool cat in the corridor with Medflies in its mouth!! Great pest control. #FruitFlies #FruitFly #Medflies #Medfly.
I saw this cool cat in the corridor with Medflies in its mouth!! Great pest control. #FruitFlies #FruitFly #Medflies #Medfly.
March 7, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Happy #Caturday !!
I saw this cool cat in the corridor with Medflies in its mouth!! Great pest control. #FruitFlies #FruitFly #Medflies #Medfly.
I saw this cool cat in the corridor with Medflies in its mouth!! Great pest control. #FruitFlies #FruitFly #Medflies #Medfly.
Another year older 🎂🎉, and the flies have made me a lovely cake of some of my favourite things, what lovely sentient beings. #Medfly #Drosophila
January 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Another year older 🎂🎉, and the flies have made me a lovely cake of some of my favourite things, what lovely sentient beings. #Medfly #Drosophila
Thank you Gargi for being so willing to design the best Medfly biscuits with myself! You have some amazing skills :) best ones I’ve ever seen
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Thank you Gargi for being so willing to design the best Medfly biscuits with myself! You have some amazing skills :) best ones I’ve ever seen
An office buddy of mine made the most beautiful personalised christmas cards, showing everyone’s respective PhD project. Thank you @gargi93.bsky.social, this really warmed the heart!
#foxes #dogs #medfly #birds #microbiota #probiotics
#foxes #dogs #medfly #birds #microbiota #probiotics
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
An office buddy of mine made the most beautiful personalised christmas cards, showing everyone’s respective PhD project. Thank you @gargi93.bsky.social, this really warmed the heart!
#foxes #dogs #medfly #birds #microbiota #probiotics
#foxes #dogs #medfly #birds #microbiota #probiotics
Medfly are legends of the game! Look at these blights, four of them. Do any Medfly behaviour people actually know what’s going on..??
#medfly #mediterraneanfruitfly
#ceratitiscapitata #tephritidae
#diptera #entomology #insectscience
#insectbehavior #insectbehaviour
#medfly #mediterraneanfruitfly
#ceratitiscapitata #tephritidae
#diptera #entomology #insectscience
#insectbehavior #insectbehaviour
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Medfly are legends of the game! Look at these blights, four of them. Do any Medfly behaviour people actually know what’s going on..??
#medfly #mediterraneanfruitfly
#ceratitiscapitata #tephritidae
#diptera #entomology #insectscience
#insectbehavior #insectbehaviour
#medfly #mediterraneanfruitfly
#ceratitiscapitata #tephritidae
#diptera #entomology #insectscience
#insectbehavior #insectbehaviour
Pretty sure California did the same with sterilized Mediterranean fruit flies (the “medfly”) decades ago.
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Pretty sure California did the same with sterilized Mediterranean fruit flies (the “medfly”) decades ago.
Long-read RNA-seq delineates temporal transcriptional dynamics in multiplexed and sexed single medfly embryos #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685472v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685472v1
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Long-read RNA-seq delineates temporal transcriptional dynamics in multiplexed and sexed single medfly embryos #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685472v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685472v1
🪰🦠🧬 We loved hearing from @katiemillar.bsky.social on the stability of K. oxytoca across Medfly diets, regions & populations and the potential for microbiome-targeted biocontrol approaches
🥰 Some beautiful slides too
#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol
🥰 Some beautiful slides too
#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol
July 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🪰🦠🧬 We loved hearing from @katiemillar.bsky.social on the stability of K. oxytoca across Medfly diets, regions & populations and the potential for microbiome-targeted biocontrol approaches
🥰 Some beautiful slides too
#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol
🥰 Some beautiful slides too
#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol
It's Med Fly Tuesday Flashback:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Patt Morrison: California transplant has been a destroyer of agriculture and scourge of politicians for 50 years
When a Medfly quarantine in L.A. ended this summer, you could be forgiven for asking, "A what quarantine?" This is the tale of California's long fight against an agricultural pest.
www.latimes.com
October 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM
It's Med Fly Tuesday Flashback:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Dr. Harris served in one of the first Black Marine Corps, the #Montfort Point Marines. His work on #Medfly used biological control & sterile males; Dr Harris developed an effective management system.
www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
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#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
ARS Hall of Fame Scientist Ernest James Harris Dies : USDA ARSResearch : USDA ARSLock
ARS Hall of Fame Scientist Ernest James Harris Dies
www.ars.usda.gov
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Dr. Harris served in one of the first Black Marine Corps, the #Montfort Point Marines. His work on #Medfly used biological control & sterile males; Dr Harris developed an effective management system.
www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
Always in 🥰🥰🥰with (true) fruit flies since I did my PhD on #Medfly. They are spectacular in shape and colors and one of the most terrible pest for crops. Tephritidae for the 4th day of the #FlyWeek celebrating diversity of #diptera with @teamdiptera.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Always in 🥰🥰🥰with (true) fruit flies since I did my PhD on #Medfly. They are spectacular in shape and colors and one of the most terrible pest for crops. Tephritidae for the 4th day of the #FlyWeek celebrating diversity of #diptera with @teamdiptera.bsky.social
watching Short Cuts and every time the Medfly helicopters show up the theme song from M*A*S*H starts playing in my head
February 6, 2024 at 7:34 AM
watching Short Cuts and every time the Medfly helicopters show up the theme song from M*A*S*H starts playing in my head