Hany K. M. Dweck (هاني دويك)

Postdoc opening in my lab! Looking for someone excited about genomes, symbionts and plant–insect interactions to join our team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. 🧬🍄🌿🦟 Applications reviewed from 16 Nov. buff.ly/WZtMcGs

A gallery of hover flies.

After four wonderful years at the CAES, our lab is moving to TAMU Entomology (@tamuentomology). I am very excited about this new chapter. We will be hiring three postdocs to start early next year. Please contact me if you are interested.

Students did an excellent job at the 2026 Plant Science Day (8/5/2026). They presented and communicated their summer work and were visited by 210.

Right. Let’s give this another try…. My laboratory is looking for a motivated postdoc in the field of Neurobiology. We have multiple exciting projects, NIH funding. Experience using the Drosophila model is preferable. Please share Job ID: 60378 erecruit.umsystem.edu/psc/tamext/K...

Today, we watched the match together, while doing some lab work!!!!!!!!!!!

On Thursday, students checked the results of their 24-hour SLF behavioral experiment and began the volatile extraction process for the Tree of Heaven! Students are becoming experts at pipetting!

Students went into the field to collect over 200 Spotted Lanternflies in order to begin a 24-hour experiment. So excited to see the results!

Today was definitely fun. We welcomed our 2026 summer cohort of high school students into the lab.

Today was definitely fun. We not only welcomed our 2026 summer cohort of high school students, but they also worked in the lab and the field on a very warm day.

The 2026 Summer cohort of high school students just joined the lab to work on Spotted lanternflies. The students began hands-on lab and field work. @blumenthal.senate.gov ate.gov, @usdagov.bsky.social v.bsky.social, @ctcaes.bsky.social

The Chemosensory Organs of the Spotted Lanternfly. Here is what we have accomplished so far....

More SLF First instars are hatching

BIZARE! Bombardier beetles defend themselves mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide in an internal chamber, triggering an explosive chemical reaction, producing a 100C/212F scalding toxic liquid that they pulse at predators!

They keep hatching!!!

Spotted lanternfly first instars have emerged in New Haven, CT, and our basic science-based traps are up.

Here is a banger! Our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social is out! We have used museomics to sequence a 45yr old specimen of Drosophila enhydrobia, a rare and most unusual fly whose larvae are aquatic(!) and predatory(!). Very cool, big success. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

www.dongascience.com/en/news/77886

news.yale.edu/2026/05/07/p...

Well deserved!!!

Soleil, a high school student and a UConn's NRCA Conservation Ambassador, represented our lab at the 2026 Environmental Changemakers Showcase. Way to go Soleil!

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

Delighted to share our new editorial in @FrontPlantSci 🌱 As Guest Editor, I helped shape this collection exploring the multifunctional roles of plant VOCs in plant defense, sustainable pest management, advancing plant–insect ecology and agroecology. 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

www.researchgate.net/profile/Shim... via @researchgate

Great!😂 @cellpress.bsky.social Garlic inhibits mating and egg laying in Aedes vector mosquitoes

And another great paper in Cell from the best ever behavioralist, Dr. Shimaa Ebrahim!!!

New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming. Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...

The NASA live stream is terrific but low on visuals for the mo (nearly 600k ppl watching and the audio is fab). So great to see this brief image of an iphone picture of the moon taken by one of the astronauts.

Receptor sequence divergence, gain, loss, duplication, and neofunctionalization drive olfactory adaptation in Drosophila suzukii | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

And we celebrated Dr. Xue's first PNAS paper with Cake!!!!

Why is Spotted Wing Drosophila attracted to fruit at its prime, instead of overripe fruit like other flies? Xue and Dweck found the neuron receptor shifts responsible for this $500M agricultural problem, in this impressive 2-author work out of the CT Ag Experiment Station!

I am very happy to share that the latest work from the lab, led by Dr. Qi Xue, has been published in PNAS and is now online: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Genome of the Abominable Snowfly uncovers the mysteries of cold tolerance in a winter active insect! New cool (literally) paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social from Marco Gallio, @matthewcapek.bsky.social, @tuthill.bsky.social, myself, and fine colleagues! ⛄ 🦟 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

A revised version of our preprint now includes results from D. biarmipes Or67a paralogs, data from a second D. suzukii Or67a4 mutant, and a model describing how Or67a paralogs are expressed in two distinct neuronal types in D. suzukii. Stay www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good job Qi!

Our first big preprint, led by the great Dr. Qi Xue @Qi_Xue_94 . We discovered three mechanisms for olfactory adaptation in the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii, two of which are novel .Well Done Qi; you will be a great professor. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Raghav is a high school student who has been working in the lab on spotted lanternflies for the past two years.

So glad to finally have this out with co-author @mallerybreban.bsky.social and very thankful for the many amazing people who contributed to this study and provided materials and input! 🦟🦠1/12 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎈Our latest 🪅 We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior. We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

spotted lanternfly peeps, check out this new paper from my labmate Katherine's masters work! super cool application of community science in NYC ~ doi.org/10.3954/JAUE...

Preprint! Minos-mediated transgenesis in the pantry moth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By @donyaniyaz.bsky.social

Yes, lots of doom and gloom, but stellar science is still produced! From Kronforst lab, sensory underpinnings of mate choice in pretty butterlfies!

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