Rheault Lab for Insect Physiology and Biochemistry

02/02/2020

Great initiative by colleague Dr Jason Pither and his UBC colleagues. Great job leading the way for Canadian Science!

With increasing interest in promoting transparency, collaboration, and reproducibility in academic research, the University of British Columbia announced today that it has become the first Canadian…

10/12/2019

Sometimes the bugs need a break from us 🐜🐛👩‍🔬

09/30/2019

Wonderful dinner with this weeks seminar speaker Dr. Dennis Kolosov from McMaster University. PhD candidate Julia Gauberg from UTM.

06/10/2019

Great time at Insect Biotech Canada meeting in Niagara-on-the-lake. Nazli did a fantastic job representing the Rheault lab. Thanks to Drs Andrew Donini and Jean-Paul Paluzzi for organizing a wonderful meeting.

11/19/2018

Great article about Heather Coatsworth from Carl Lowenberger's lab at Simon Fraser University. Check out this amazing entomologist featured in the the Women in Entomology Series by The Canadian Entomological Society.

Canadian Entomology, ESC Blog, Women in Entomology Women in Entomology SeriesHeather Coatsworth This post is the first in a new series featuring interviews with Canadian women working in or studying entomology. Left: Heather looking through one of their lab’s colony cages, which hold around 200 mo...

08/22/2018

World Mosquito Day is a celebration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross’ discovery that female mosquitoes were responsible for transmitting the malarial parasite.
"Hit Mosquitoes before they Hit you with Malaria"

06/08/2018

Auburn University researchers have discovered the presence of Aedes aegyptiand #8212;the primary mosquito that transmits Zika virus, yellow fever and other flavivirusesand #8212;in Alabama.

05/31/2018

Brett Saremba from the Rheault lab has recently published "The Metabolic Fate of Dietary Ni****ne in the Cabbage Looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner)" in the Journal of Insect Physiology.

01/30/2018

Great work by UBC-V undergraduate students in the Tseng Lab!

Researchers studied 6,500 bugs collected over the past 100 years.

11/14/2017

Congratulations to MSc student Brett Saremba who was awarded 1st Place in Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology for his oral presentation entitled "Ni****ne metabolism in the Cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni" at the Annual Entomological Society of America Meeting in Denver this past week.

11/05/2017

Entomogical society of America meeting 2017, Denver.