Meeran Hussain 🧬🧑🏻‍💻

Potential Drivers of Successful Biocontrol: A Perspective on Parasitoids Parasitoids are central to classical biological control, yet predicting their long-term effectiveness post release remains challenging. In Aotearoa New Zealand, three Microctonus (Hymenoptera: Bracon...

📢 Publication Alert – 2nd Paper from My PhD!

I’m excited to share my recent publication in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology 🎉

Paper link: rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@angmcgaughran.bsky.social

#Biocontrol #Genomics #Parasitoids #NewZealand #Transcriptomics #Microbiome

Warming Reduces Parasitoid Success and Narrows Their Diet Breadth Warming may have a major impact on trophic networks, but few interactions are typically studied. Here we show that experimental warming strongly decreased the success of parasitoid development across...

Warming Reduces Parasitoid Success and Narrows Their Diet Breadth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using Genomic Data to Infer Evolutionary Processes in the Asexual Parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides In this study, we used whole-genome resequencing to investigate spatial and temporal genomic variation in the Irish strain of the asexual (thelytokous) parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides, which was ...

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨

Curious about how thelytokous (asexual) reproduction shapes genetic diversity in a parasitoid?

My first PhD paper is now out, where we explore this fascinating system through a genomic lens.

📄 Paper link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@angmcgaughran.bsky.social

Hoiho - the world’s rarest penguin, fewer than 150 mainland pairs left

🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature

GitHub - meeranhussain/Genome_assembly_AND_annotaion: Bash scripts for genome assembly and annotation using ONT and Illumina datasets. Bash scripts for genome assembly and annotation using ONT and Illumina datasets. - meeranhussain/Genome_assembly_AND_annotaion

Working on insect genome assembly? I have compiled a modular pipeline for assembly & annotation from my PhD. Includes SLURM scripts & protocols. Not fully reproducible, but adaptable to your system.
🧬 Nanopore + Illumina
GitHub: github.com/meeranhussai...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #InsectGenomics

INVASION GENOMICS IN R 8th, 10th and 11th September 2025

🚨 New Format. Global Access. 🌍

Are you ready to take your skills in invasion genomics to the next level—wherever you are in the world?

💡 Explore how genomics can help decode the adaptation & environmental responses of invasive species with @angmcgaughran.bsky.social
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PhD position available - plant-microbe-pollinator interactions in Kowhai flowers! With myself & Prof Jacqueline Beggs, based at Manaaki Whenua, Lincoln. Details below, or DM me! @microbiologysociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social @microbiologynz.bsky.social

Starsha end with an important closing message:

What is the most important thing in the world?
It's the people, It's the people, It's the people

Starsha Bird explores how public data can improve our knowledge of exotic species and indigenous biodiversity

Come find me at #SeDNA2025 and check out my #airDNA Trail Cam in-person or feel free to download the STL files to test yourself!

It was an amazing experience presenting my first PhD chapter at the Invasomics 2.0 conference. I had the chance to connect with incredible researchers working on invasion biology. Huge thanks to @manpreetkdhami.bsky.social and @angmcgaughran.bsky.social for organizing such a fantastic event! 🧬🥳👨🏻‍💻