Decoding Mosquitoes w/ Zhilei Zhao
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Zhilei Zhao is a post-doc in the Goldberg Lab at Cornell University. He can be reached at [email protected]. RESOURCES: Princeton Insights coverage: Infectious mosquitoes decode the unique smell of humans to pick their next meal Original Paper: Chemical signatures of human odour generate a unique neural code in the brain of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes CREDITS: Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Olivia Duddy GS Produced by Isabel Rodrigues Original Insights Coverage by Olivia Duddy GS For more from Princeton Insights, visit insights.princeton.edu. Subscribe to The Highlights on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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In this episode of The Highlights, we're joined by Zhilei Zhao, a former graduate student in the McBride Lab of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. We discuss his experiences working in the lab during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his study of the delicate neuroscience of mosquitoes and its potential impact on the fight against malaria and other insect-borne illnesses.
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