Maya Saar, PhD
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Sep. 2022: Science Communication Award (Runner-up) by Entomological Society of America - here we go!

-ESA announcement
-Interview for ESA's coolest blog Entomology Today!


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Feb. 2022: For the International Day of Women & Girls in Science, the Lucky lab participated in 'Girls do Science' event in Florida Museum! ~500 people and ~150 children enjoyed our live ant colonies, invasive ant species cards, microscope exhibition and insect toys!  

December 2021: I was elected to serve in the social media committee for IUSSI - North American Section!

Other positions filled for IUSSI-NAS:
President: *Juergen Liebig*
Secretary: *Kate Ihle*
Treasurer: *Mike Goodisman*
Elections committee: *Hongmei Li-Byarlay*
Awards Committee: *Matina Donaldson-Matasci & Etya Amsalem*

​Best of luck to us all!

November 2021: "N12" Israeli news website published my article on the little fire ant (error in photos that should be replaced): Link

August 2021: My funding agency BARD, featured me for an interview on my postdoc research in University of Florida. Thank you!
-Twitter
-Interview
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-Newsletter Summer 2021
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April 2021: Locust swarms has visited Israel. I interviewed a locust researcher specialist- Prof. Amir Ayali, to find out what's going on. In short, it seems there is nothing to worry about this time.

Here's an article (English): 
Plague of pests: Lots of locusts swarm Israel's South 

Here's my story (Hebrew): קצת ארבה / מאיה סער

Dec. 2020: Thanks for featuring me in the international diversity scholars' section of the Fall 2020 Newsletter by the Biology Department, UF!

Dec. 2020: I gave a talk to gifted Elementary School children. We traveled in the UF lab facilities and talked about recent Nobel winning technology Crispr-cas9.
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Oct. 2020: Our  manuscript 'Embryo injections for CRISPR-mediated mutagenesis in the ant Harpegnathos saltator' was accepted to Journal of Visual Experiments! Video now in production.

Oct. 2020: My new popular science article is out (Hebrew)! I wrote on the discovery of the chemical compound that constitutes the aggregation pheromone in locust, it's molecular mechanism for absorption and how to knock out the related gene. This is a promising and exciting progress towards managing locust plagues in the future.

Here's the original article: Guo, Xiaojiao, et al. 4-Vinylanisole is an aggregation pheromone in locusts. Nature 584.7822 (2020) 584-588.‏

​Here's my article: דבר אליי בפרומונים / מאיה סער

June 2020: My article on my favorite Facebook group: 'A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony', is out (Hebrew)!
This sensational Facebook group that drew almost 2 million followers, grew even larger during the Covid-19 global pandemic. But do their group activities resemble a real-life ant colony? Read to find out.

My article: All hail the queen / Maya Saar
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Photo design: Danielle Haltovsky

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