Posts Tagged: mosquitoes
Mosquito Expert Julián Hillyer's Topic: 'Not So Heartless!'
What a catchy title: "Not So Heartless." Wait, there's more! "Not So Heartless:...
The malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Julián Hillyer, associate professor of biological sciences, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Nashville, Tenn., will speak on the malaria mosquito at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23, in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis. (Photo by Anthony Cornel, UC Davis)
Who's Speaking at UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Seminars
From honey bees to bumble bees to nematodes to mosquitoes to walnut twig beetles... Nine speakers...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on Cleveland sage. One of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminars during the fall quarter will be on "Bumble Bee Movement Ecology and Response to Wildfire" by doctoral candidate John Mola for his exit seminar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Team: Mosquito Odorant Receptors Are Sensitive to Floral Compunds
It's well known that female mosquitoes possess a highly developed sense of smell. They manage to...
Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito (CDC Photo)
Culex quinquefasciatus, the southern house mosquito. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What This Scientist Discovered in an Insect and Why It Matters
What this scientist discovered in an insect and why it matters... Naoki Yamanaka, an assistant...
A fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, feeding on a banana. (Photo by Sanjay Acharya, courtesy of Wikipedia)
The World of Olivia Winokur
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a UC Davis doctoral student researching...
UC Davis doctoral student and mosquito researcher Olivia Winokur checks on mosquitoes in the walk-in chamber in the insectary. The chamber is set to 26 Celsius and 80 percent humidity to mimic tropical conditions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Olivia Winokur holds a tray of Culex tarsalis larvae in the insectoary. The Chris Barker lab now has nine colonies of mosquitoes in the insectary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Olivia Winokur answers questions about her poster at the UC Davis Research Symposium on the Designated Emphasis in the Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases (DEBVPD). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)