This event is part of the department’s seminar series for graduate students.

“Roles of bacterial symbionts in the physiology of the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus”

Dr. Kevin Vogel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Department of Entomology. He earned his PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona and completed his post-doc at UGA. Dr. Vogel’s research involves the physiology of insect vectors with current experiments specifically focusing on mosquitoes.