UBC Graduation 2022

Happy Holidays 2024

A happy holidays from us at the Mosquito/Salmon/Hairworm lab! We were also celebrating the end of a very productive and successful three-month visit from Roe...

Welcome Auguste

A very warm welcome to Auguste de Pennart, joining us as a Zoology PhD student. Auguste did his undergraduate work at UBC (including directed studies work wi...

Canadian Association of Neuroscience 2024

Congratulations to Leisl for a successful poster presentation at the Canadian Association of Neuroscience 2024 Annual Meeting!

Lab retreat!

We had a great lab retreat to Loon Lake, in the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest to welcome new members and spend some time on the water before embarking on...

Fish? Fish.

We are in desparate need of re-vamping our laboratory name - no longer simply the ‘mosquito lab’, we also work on host-parasite interactions in a cricket-hai...

Congratulations Ivan!

Ivan Lo defended his M.Sc. thesis today, entitled “Strategies for improving the genetic toolbox in Aedes aegypti mosquito.”

Congratulations Tahnee!

Big congratulations to newly minted Zoology M.Sc. Tahnee Ames (co-supervised with Phil Matthews)

Welcome to UBC Geering Up

We were excited to welcome visitors from the UBC Geering Up program to the lab today. We hope you enjoyed the rest of your stay in Vancouver!

CIHR funding for taste and touch

The lab is thrilled to be funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (with fantastic colleague Mike Gordon and his lab) to study mosquito sensory s...

Congratulations Elsa!

Braving a snowstorm, Elsa Cyr hopped onto zoom this afternoon and defended her M.Sc. thesis (The neural basis of taste processing in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes...

Happy holidays and new year!

The UBC mosquito lab capped off an excellent 2023, seeing the first graduate student finish their degree (congratulations Orna!), welcoming several new membe...

CCA report and The Big Story

Our role as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies’ The Expert Panel on Regulating Gene-Edited Organisms for Pest Control resulted in a report entitle...

Welcome to Ian!

After starting up at UBC, the lab could only avoid working on fish for so long… A hearty welcome to Dr. Ian Bouyoucos, joining our lab as a postdoctoral fell...

Welcome to Bridget!

A hearty welcome to Bridget White, joining us as a research technician after finishing her M.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba! Bridget’s position i...

Congratulations to Orna!

Congratulations to the Mosquito Lab’s first Masters graduate, Orna Phelan, who defended her thesis in style today. Orna’s thesis was entitled “An investigati...

Congratulations to our graduates!

Congratulations to all Mosquito lab alumni who are graduating today! Special shout-out to Cam, Phillip, Parsa, and Dannica on their successful defence of the...

HFSP Funding Announcement

The lab is excited to announce a successful funding application to the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). This three-year award is in collaboration with ...

Nice job Elsa!

Congratulations to Elsa for her semi-final appearance in the UBC 3-minute thesis competition

Retreat!

Big thanks to Jeff Doherty for getting us organized for the first Mosquito Lab ‘working retreat.’ We found a nice spot nestled at the base of the mountains a...

Welcome (back) Jonathan!

A big Mosquito Lab welcome (back) to Jonathan Chiang, a former co-op student who is returning to pursue an M.Sc. in the Genome Sciences and Technology progra...

Congratulations Leisl

Big congratulations to Leisl, who passed her comprehensive examination with flying colours! Can’t wait to see how your PhD work unfolds.

Welcome Jeff!

A warm welcome to Jean-François (Jeff) Doherty, who is joining us as a Postdoctoral Fellow (joint appointed with Leonard Foster’s lab)! Jeff will expand the ...

What Bit Me?

Dan getting out the word about an exciting project in the lab, “What Bit Me?” that aims to add to our understanding of mosquito distributions across the Paci...

Congrulations to Dan!

Congratulations to Dan Peach, who recently announced that he would taking an Assistant Professor position at the University of Georgia. We can’t wait to see ...

UBC Graduation 2022

Congratulations to our 2022 UBC Graduates! Jonathan, Lauren, Maryann, Joshua, Annie. Not pictured: Smit and Ana!

VanFly 2022

Congratulations to Elsa on her award for the second-best short talk at the 2022 VanFly Conference!

Zoology Symposium 2022

Congratulations to Leisl, who gave a great talk at the Zoology Department Symposium!

Leisl awarded a 4YF

Big shout out to Leisl Brewster who was awarded a 4 year fellowship from UBC to support her gradate studies going forward. Congratulations, Leisl!

So we meet again…

So great to have hybrid lab meetings again - conversations in person are so much better than on Zoom! Welcome to all of the new folks in the lab as well!

MSFHR Scholar Award

We are very pleased to announce that Ben was selected as a 2021 Scholar by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to support work in the lab for t...

Congratulations to 2021 grads!

Congratulations to Aleksandra Anoshina, Ivan Lo, and Ana Parra for successfully defending their Honour’s theses and graduating this spring! Congratulations ...

Congratulations to Aleks and Ana for their MURC presentations!

Congratulations to Aleksandra Anoshina and Ana Parra for giving fantastic oral presentations at this year’s “Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Confere...

Sloan Fellowship

We are very pleased that Ben has been awarded a 2021 Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Neurosciences, celebrating the hard work of everyone who has been through...

Happy holidays 2020

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday from the Mosquito Lab at UBC! It’s been a weird and tough year, but I am proud of this crew for making the best of it ...

Congratulations to Britya

Congratulations to Britya Ghosh (collaborator in Mike Gordon’s Lab) for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis on lactic acid perception in mosquitoes and f...

Postdoctoral fellowships to Dan and Yunusa

Congratulations to Dr. Dan Peach and Dr. Yunusa Garba for being recognized with three-year postdoctoral fellowships from the MIchael Smith Foundation for Hea...

Welcome to new mosquito lab members, 2020

Moustiques du yukon avec le Dr. Dan Peach

Félicitations à Dan pour un article fantastique sur les moustiques du Yukon!

Congratulations to Dan!

A hearty congratulations to Dan Peach on the publication of the final version of his paper, Modeling the Putative Ancient Distribution of Aedes togoi (Dipter...

Congratulations to Dan!

Congratulations to Dan Peach on his first ever bioRxiv pre-print, Modelling the Putative Ancient Distribution of the Coastal Rock Pool Mosquito Aedes togoi. ...

Lab style

Science in style… mosquito style!

Space!

The lab is starting to take shape! Benches are in and insectary is hot, humid, and ready for mosquitoes. Big thanks to Dan and Britya for helping to get eve...

Lab twitter

We have joined the twenty-first century. Come follow the lab on twitter @BenMatthewsUBC!

Welcome to the (Ben) Matthews Lab!

Welcome to the new home of the (Ben) Matthews lab in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. The physical doors will open in Septem...