Posts Tagged: mosquitoes
Geoffrey Attardo: Growing Presence of This Mosquito: 'A Major Public Health Threat'
UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, an assistant professor, UC Davis...
"The growing presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can transmit the viruses that cause Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever as well as the parasite that causes heartworm in pets, is a major public health threat," says UC Davis medical entomologist/geneticist Geoffrey Attardo. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
Olivia Winokur: Newly Selected Fellow of Professors for the Future
She's an doctoral student in entomology now, but look for Olivia Winokur to be a professor...
Olivia Winokur, who researches Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, is the co-author of research published in several journals, including PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Her first first-author paper, “Impact of Temperature on the Extrinsic Incubation Period of Zika Virus in Aedes aegypti” was just published in March. (CDC Photo of Aedes aegypti)
A Good Day on the UC Davis Campus
Today was a good day on the University of California, Davis, campus. The National Academy of...
Culex quinquefasciatus, the Southern house mosquito, one of the insects that Walter Leal studies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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)