August 19, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie-Rankin Turner who starts her own lab today at the Department of Chemistry at University of Pittsburgh!
May 22, 2024
Nature, Flora Graham, “Daily briefing: The body odours that make mosquitoes want to bite you”, May 22, 2024
May 14, 2024
Nature Africa, Di Caelers, “On the scent in the quest to learn mosquitoes’ preferred humans”
May 9, 2024
WYPR NPR Public Radio (Baltimore), Scott Maucione, “Maryland school is a breeding ground for the deadliest creature on earth — but for research purposes only”
April 30, 2024
The Baltimore Banner, Meredith Cohn, “Johns Hopkins breeds millions of mosquitoes — to stop them from killing you”
April 26, 2024
WBAL-BAL (NBC), Lisa Robinson, “Hopkins researchers breeding mosquitoes at insectary to find ways to combat malaria”
April 25, 2024
New Telegraph, Nigeria, Appolonia Adeyemi, “Insecticide Resistance Major Hindrance To Malaria Elimination – Experts”
April 24, 2024
Infectious Disease Special Edition, Tom Rosenthal, “Despite Inroads, Combating Malaria Remains a Challenge”
April 23, 2024
The Ghana Report, Vicky Wireko Andoh, “Ending Malaria: Optimism as World Marks Malaria Day”
April 17, 2024
STAT, Annalisa Merelli, “Second-generation mosquito nets prevented 13 million malaria cases in large pilot programs”
December 27, 2023
Cosmos, Petra Stock, “Getting eaten by mozzies? It could be the way you smell”
September 13, 2023
Associated Press, María Verza and Maddie Burakoff, “Mosquitoes, long the enemy, are now bred to help prevent the spread of dengue fever”
July 27, 2023
Bloomberg Businessweek Podcast - “Mosquitoes and Malaria”
July 20, 2023
Wall Street Journal, Daniela Hernandez, “Why your #smell could be the reason #mosquitoes love you. #shorts”
July 10, 2023
LCGC, Patrick Lavery, “Human Body Odors Tested for Mosquito Attraction in Zambia”
June 28, 2023
Public Health on Call - Podcast, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Stephanie Desmon, “Episode 630 - Why Are Some Humans’ Scents More Preferable to Mosquitoes?”
June 25, 2023
The New York Times, Emily Anthes, “How to Build a Scent Smorgasbord for Mosquitoes”
June 24, 2023
CNN, Kate Golembiewski, “What scientists say keeps mosquitoes at bay”
June 22, 2023
Chemistry For Your Life - Podcast, Melissa and Jam, “Episode #163: Why DO mosquitos bite some people more than others? (new research!)”
June 20, 2023
National Geographic, Natalia Mesa, “These bug repellents actually work—if you use them correctly”
June 16, 2023
National Geographic, Connie Chang, “You really are a mosquito magnet. Here's what you can do about it”
June 2, 2023
Leblob.fr, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France, Barbara Vignaux, “Comment les moustiques vous retrouvent à l’odeur”
27 May, 2023
Tagesschau.de, Von Constantia Bernhardt, “Diese Gerüche locken Mücken an”
May 27, 2023
Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald - Podcast, CBC Radio, “Scientists explore what makes you attractive — to mosquitoes”
May 26, 2023
Quirks an Quarks - CBC Radio, Sonya Buyting and Olsy Sorokina, “Bug off! Your scent signature could be key to keeping mosquitoes away”
May 26, 2023
The Naked Scientists - Podcast, Chris Smith, “Why mosquitoes prefer some people to others”
May 25, 2023
Le Temps, Switzerland, Denis Delbecq, “Des expériences le prouvent: l’odeur humaine est un puissant aimant pour les moustiques dangereux”
May 25, 2023
Univision, Luis Megid, “¿Los mosquitos te persiguen? Un estudio revela cuál es el olor de los humanos que atrae a estos insectos”
May 20, 2023
BBC World Service - Roland Pease, “Science in Action, Saturday May 20, 2023” - Featuring Dr. Edgar Simulundu describing our collaborative research at Macha Research Trust, Zambia.
May 20, 2023
Al Jazeera English, Colin Baker, “Zambia researchers probe scents to beat mosquito-borne diseases”
May 20, 2023
Scientias, Netherlands, Jeannette Kras, Een neusje voor bloed: hoe muggen ons al vanaf 100 meter afstand kunnen ruiken
May 20, 2023
Cosmos, Petra Stock, “Scientists discover which body odours mosquitoes prefer”
May 19, 2023
Gizmodo, Ed Cara, “Scientists Built a Giant Human Scent Buffet to Learn How Mosquitoes Find Us”
May 19, 2023
The Telegraph, Sarah Knapton “Eating certain herbs and spices ‘could stop mosquitoes biting you”
May 19, 2023
The Washington Post, Carolyn Y. Johnson, “How mosquitoes use your body chemistry to pick you for their next meal”
May 19, 2023
CNN, Kate Golembiewski, “A body odor buffet reveals which scents attract mosquitoes”
May 19, 2023
Science, Kate Hull, “World’s largest ‘scent arena’ reveals bloody preferences of mosquitoes”
May 19, 2023
BBC Science Focus, Noa Leach, “Always bugged by mosquitos? Blame your body odour”
May 19, 2023
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Morgan Coulson, “The Chemistry of Mosquito Attraction”
May 19, 2023
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Ana Coyne, The McMeniman Lab | Decoding the Human Scent Signature
May 19, 2023
Diego Giraldo and Stephanie Rankin-Turner’s Current Biology paper featured as a “Research Highlight” in Nature.
April 30, 2023
Jinling Wu accepts a position as a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Sciences Training Program (BSTP) program at Case Western Reserve University
April 11, 2023
Stephanie Rankin-Turner is awarded a JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
April 5, 2023
Margot Wohl selected as an instructor for the 2023 JHU Summer at Hopkins Pre-College Program for Introduction to Laboratory Research
February 20, 2023
Margot Wohl and Diego Giraldo accepted into the Cajal Experimental Neuroscience Bootcamp 2023
February 1, 2023
Conor organizes the 26th Annual Johns Hopkins Vector Encounter (June 15-16, 2023). Save the date
December 1, 2022
Conor is named as the Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Insectary Core Facility
November 2, 2022
Margot Wohl is awarded a 2022 L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship
September 19, 2022
Public Health on Call Podcast, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath, Thomas Locke, “519 - Malaria Mondays Miniseries Part I: How Malaria’s Weird Biology Is Its Secret to Success”
September 2022
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Magazine, Fall Winter 2022 Edition, Brian Simpson, “Discovery // Breakthroughs + Impact: Fatal Attraction”
August 22, 2022
Stephanie Rankin-Turner is accepted into the 2022 International Summer Sessions in Metabolomics Course at the West Coast Metabolomics Center at UC Davis, CA
June 17, 2022
Stephanie Rankin-Turner is awarded the 2022 Samuel Jordan Graham Postdoctoral Award from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
April 1, 2022
Diego Giraldo is awarded a 2022 Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) Postdoctoral Fellowship
February 16, 2022
Diego Giraldo is accepted into the CAJAL Course on Quantitative Approaches to Behaviour at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
February 14, 2022
Stephanie Rankin-Turner is awarded a 2022 American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Postdoctoral Career Development Award
December, 2021
Andrew Hammond accepts a position as Chief Scientific Officer at Biocentis
June 24, 2021
ABC7 7News Washington, Veronica Johnson, “Mosquito Awareness Week: As you enjoy summer, don't let mosquitoes ruin your fun”
April 15, 2021
Fight Malaria Blog, Thomas Locke, “Decoding the Mosquito’s Attraction to Human Scent”
August 19, 2020
Margot Wohl is awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Infectious Diseases (MCBID) Program (NIH, T32A1007417)
January 1, 2020
Shruti Shankar is awarded a Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) Postdoctoral Fellowship
March 29, 2019
Association of Health Care Journalists, Jeff Porter, “Health Journalism 2019 field trips offer high-tech research, real-life health care”
March 28, 2019
Diego Giraldo is awarded a 2019 Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
November 26, 2018
Andrew Hammond is awarded a 2018 Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust co-supervised by Conor McMeniman (Johns Hopkins), Stephen Goodwin (Oxford) and Tony Southall (Imperial College London)
September 25, 2018
CNN, Michael Nedelman, “Gene editing could eliminate mosquitoes, but is it a good idea?”
July 31, 2018
Shruti Shankar is accepted into the 2018 Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences course at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Wood Hole, MA
January 23, 2018
Reuters, Sophie Hares, “Mosquito-packed drones could give extra bite to Zika fight”
March 2017
Johns Hopkins Health Review, Spring/Summer 2017 Issue, Belinda Lanks, “Why Do Bugs Love to Bug Me?”
February 9, 2017
Science News, Laurel Hamers, “Malaria Molecule Makes Blood Extra-Alluring to Mosquitoes”
October 2016
Johns Hopkins Medicine - Fundamentals Magazine, “Using Mosquito Brains to Fight Malaria”
August 20, 2016
Conor joins the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program as a joint appointment in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
August 16, 2016
Public Health United, Nina Martin, “Science Communication Podcast Episode 23: Combating Zika with Mosquito Biology & Science Communication”
August 15, 2016
The Washington Post, Steven Overly, “What Glow-In-The-Dark Mosquitoes Can Teach Us About Human Smell”
August 13, 2016
CBS Baltimore, Tracey Leong, “Johns Hopkins Teams Tapped For Zika Virus Research Grant”
August 10, 2016
The Hub at Johns Hopkins, “Four Johns Hopkins Research Teams Win Funding to Combat Zika Virus”
August 9, 2016
Conor is featured in Ed Yong’s new book “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life”
August 8, 2016
The Atlantic, Ed Yong, “How to Beat Dengue and Zika: Add a Microbe to Mosquitoes”
July 24, 2016
Mirror Daily, Tara Hamilton, “Mosquitoes Hate Chickens”
July 22, 2016
KCBS 106.9FM Radio San Francisco, Melissa Culross, “Scientist: Sleeping Near Chickens May Protect You From Malaria”
July 21, 2016
NPR - Goats and Soda, Mark H. Kim, “To Avoid Malaria, Try Sleeping With A Chicken At Your Bedside”
July 2016
Johns Hopkins Medicine - Fundamentals Magazine, Catherine Gara, “Zika: All Hands on Deck”
June 2016
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Magazine, Summer 2016 Edition, Alexander Gelfand, “All That Buzz”
September 2015
The McMeniman lab opens at the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Header Image: © Alex Wild | alexanderwild.com “Female Anopheles gambiae feeding from Conor’s finger”.
