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Discover the art of creating extraordinary science at SEB’s Annual Conference at Le Corum Conference Center     in Montpellier, France from 5 to  8 July 2022.

SEB’s Annual Conference is celebrated for creating the perfect composition of research, new discoveries and collaborative connections. Be creative and innovative by exchanging ideas and knowledge with masters of biology from all over the world.

2022 will find over 1500 experimental biologists from across the globe converging on the third-largest French city near the Mediterranean coast and the fastest-growing city in the country over the past 25 years.
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SEB Annual Conference 2022

2022 will find over 1500 experimental biologists from across the globe converging on the third-largest French city near the Mediterranean coast and the fastest-growing city in the country over the past 25 years - Montpellier, France

The relationship between temperature and wingbeat frequency has been the focus of many studies over several decades and it has been shown repeatedly, across taxa, that warmer temperatures lead to higher flapping frequencies. This phenomenon is thought to be driven chiefly by the muscle properties of the flight motor. There are knock-on consequences for the kinematic pattern of the wing stroke that is required in order to generate aerodynamic forces sufficient to balance body weight. Specifically, we might predict that as frequency increases, the stroke amplitude or angle of attack must decrease to avoid producing excess force. 
Since mosquitoes have very high baseline wingbeat frequencies for their size, they operate with low wing stroke amplitudes, resulting in unusual aerodynamic mechanisms that place a greater burden of lift generation on the supinatory and pronatory rotations during the wingbeat cycle. Temperature-modulated increases in frequency reduce the stroke amplitude still further. Here, we investigate the aerodynamics of male Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes during flights recorded over a range of temperatures spanning almost 10 degrees Celsius. The kinematics were captured in a new multi-camera arena, and the flow fields were subsequently simulated by solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We present noteworthy variation in Anopheles kinematics with temperature and the mechanism of aerodynamic force production across the range of recorded kinematics.

The effect of temperature on mosquito aerodynamics

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