New paper out! 🦟 💧☀️ Seasonal variation in aquatic habitat availability and use by the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👏 Dr #NajatKahamba for leading this work on this crucial #malaria vector 👏 to the whole team #IfakaraHealthInstitute & @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

🙏 @bspparasitology.bsky.social for the invitation to #BSP2026 in Glasgow! It was my honour to present the work on #malaria #mosquitoes & #parasites done by many talented scientists @mauropazmino.bsky.social #DoreenSiria #IvanCasas & many others @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #IfakaraHealthInstitute, #IRSS

Our new work link.springer.com/article/10.1... Detection of supergroup B Wolbachia and their co-infection with Plasmodium falciparum in wild Anopheles funestus in Tanzania 👏 #ReubenMweteni leading work during master project #UniversityOfDarEsSalaam #IfakaraHealthInstitute @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

To mark #InternationalWomensDay, yesterday Prof @drheatherferg.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk about her career journey @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #IfakaraHealthInstitute I won’t even try to summarise it—words wouldn’t do it justice. You had to be there to truly understand. And luckily I was! 🙏 Heather!

New work by #JoelOdero & team! Distinct Genetic Populations and Resistance Backgrounds of the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus in Tanzania: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #IfakaraHealthInstitute @malariagen.bsky.social

🥼🧹Lab clean up today!!!! Great team work!!! Thank you @ic-uribarri.bsky.social for coordination and everyone for the amazing help! @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #vectorsglasgow @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social

Interesting talk today at VectorGlasgow meeting @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social by @daniellaandrea.bsky.social on "Mosquito saliva, Wolbachia, Virus transmission and Mammalian skin". Very novel and exciting findings!

Another PhD viva, another cake and yet another Dr! 🎉 Dr Emmanuel Mwanga! @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #ifakarahealthinstitute Oustanding work on #AI & #InfraredSpectroscopy for #malaria vector surveillance supervised by @simonab.bsky.social Fredros Okumu & me 🙏 examiners Daniel Streicker & Eric Ochomo

Congrats to Dr Issa Mshani for passing his PhD viva @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social today! In his PhD, Issa developed new tools for #malaria surveillance at the Ifakara Health Institute, supervised by Fredros Okumu, @simonab.bsky.social and myself. Thank you to examiners Dan Haydon and Carlos Chaccour.