Tuesday, March 24, 12:30 PM, Echlin Center 101
Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society Seminar series presents: Dr. Rebecca Johnson Medical Entomology Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
“The impact of mosquito blood feeding behavior on within-mosquito virus dynamics”
In laboratory experiments, mosquitoes are typically given a single, full, blood meal, but this does not accurately reflect mosquito feeding behavior in the wild where mosquitoes often feed frequently and sometimes take partial blood meals. Recent findings from my lab using Aedes aegypti, the main vector for several important arthropod-borne viruses including dengue virus (DENV), suggest that failing to take this behavior into account may distort our understanding of mosquito biology and mosquito-virus dynamics. Studying the effects of mosquito blood feeding dynamics on virus dissemination and transmission is critical to successful mosquito control, experimental design, modelling of viral epidemics, and represents a new area of vector biology research.
Dr. Rebecca Johnson is a NIH NIAID K99 recipient and post-doctoral research scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, CT where she works on mosquito biology, within-mosquito virus dynamics, mosquito molecular pathways, and factors contributing to vector competence.
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