Maéva TecherEvolutionary & Integrative Biologist
Hand-drawn honey bee surfing a wave in a changing world alongside a Varroa mite, viruses, pesticides, habitat change, and city lights.

ONLINE RESOURCES / OPEN FIELD KIT

Reproducible and open science

Observe it. Sample it. Sequence it. Analyze it. Share it.

WET LAB / STANDARD METHODS

Standard Protocols

I strive to help develop, optimize, and compile the standard protocols I wish I had access to when I started my projects. Beyond helping newcomers, I hope these resources improve comparability across laboratories.

Graphical workflow for standardized Schistocerca colony care, phase manipulation, behavioral assays, dissection, and RNA extraction.
PROTOCOL 01 / LOCUSTSRear, dissect, and preserve locust tissues
Hand-drawn welcome graphic for the COLOSS standard methods in honey bee omics project.
PROTOCOL 02 / HONEY BEESStandard methods for Apis omics
Opened honey bee brood cells containing larvae and pupae with multiple visible Varroa destructor mites.
PROTOCOL 03 / BEE HEALTHStandard methods for honey bee pests and pathogens

DRY LAB / REPRODUCIBLE CODE

Bioinformatic scripts and pipelines

I develop and curate pipelines in the spirit of protocols, making them accessible while ensuring reproducibility and openness.

WORKFLOW 01 / POPULATION GENOMICS

Reconstruct a global host jump

A Snakemake project for turning Varroa sequencing data into population-genomic evidence about ancestry, connectivity, and invasion history.

WORKFLOW 02 / TRANSCRIPTOMICS

Follow a phase change through expression

A reproducible comparative workflow for connecting locust RNA sequencing with gene-expression responses and evolutionary questions.

VISUAL COMMS / ILLUSTRAE

Scientific communication

Did you like one of my images, drawings, or vectors? Feel free to reuse them for research and non-commercial use as long as you credit M. Techer :)

Some gallery images were generated with Illustrae from real photographs of our laboratory settings.

Maéva Techer drawing the World Varroa Network illustration on a tablet beside honey bee research material.
RPG-inspired cartoon of a giant red Varroa mite as a super boss confronting a researcher in a bee suit.
Cartoon of two researchers in bee suits opening a honey bee colony and collecting Varroa mites.
Two hand-drawn locust profiles showing highlighted internal anatomical structures.
Detailed illustration of a tall laboratory cage containing a crowded colony of locusts.
Detailed biological illustration of a yellow and black gregarious desert locust.
Cartoon honey bees collecting honey, celebrating, defending their colony, and working through winter.
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FIELD LOG / LIVING WORLD

Follow what I find in the living world

iNaturalist field logFollow what I find in the living world
Kaempfer cicada observed by Maéva Techer in Nagareyama, Japan.
Kaempfer cicadaPlanopleura kaempferi
Oriental longheaded locust observed by Maéva Techer in Nagareyama, Japan.
Oriental longheaded locustAcrida cinerea
Green chafer observed by Maéva Techer in Nagareyama, Japan.
Green chaferAnomala albopilosa