{"id":1519,"date":"2026-07-18T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/?page_id=1519"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:04:05","slug":"our-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/our-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of biology&#8217;s hardest traits \u2014 whether an animal reproduces, how it behaves, how it withstands stress \u2014 are governed by a small set of conserved control systems. We build our science around two of them: the <strong>HPG (reproductive)<\/strong> and <strong>HPA (stress)<\/strong> axes, and the <strong>gut\u2013brain networks<\/strong> they operate within. We don&#8217;t study these axes as isolated physiology \u2014 we read their molecular signatures, with multi-omics and mass-spectrometry biomarkers, and ask how the same conserved circuitry expresses itself in two very different model systems. In avian models, that&#8217;s fertility, health, and the gut\u2013brain\u2013microbiome connection in birds. In insect models, it&#8217;s the behavior, reproduction, and microbiomes of the mosquitoes and flies that move disease. Same wiring, different animals \u2014 and the comparison is where discovery lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Avian models<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fertility, the gut\u2013brain and circadian network, and the comparative &amp; population genomics beneath them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/avian-models\/\">Explore avian models \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insect models<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaria vector biology and the microbiomes of disease-carrying insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/insect-models\/\">Explore insect models \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of biology&#8217;s hardest traits \u2014 whether an animal reproduces, how it behaves, how it withstands stress \u2014 are governed by a small set of conserved control systems. We build our science around two of them: the HPG (reproductive) and HPA (stress) axes, and the gut\u2013brain networks they operate within. We don&#8217;t study these axes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}