Department of Infectious Diseases
Assistant Professor, Joint Faculty
Expertise
Disease Ecology | Infectious Diseases | Medical and Veterinary Entomology | Sensory Ecology | Vector Biology | Vector-Borne Diseases | Zoonotic Diseases
Biography
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.
Research Interests
- Mosquito-plant interactions, including pollination
- Host location by mosquitoes and other vectors
- Mosquito species distributions and biogeography
- Vector ecology and transmission dynamics
- Sensory ecology and its applications for vector management
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