Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animals, but they have a secret life that doesn’t involve biting us. It’s this whole secret life, that includes everything from mosquito pollination to the non-human animals they feed on to mosquito-mosquito competition to how they find each other to mate, that fascinates me and drives my research questions. My lab uses a variety of classical and modern techniques to investigate these and adjacent topics, including how vector ecology can impact pathogen transmission.