3 years since last update (sorry i’ve been lazy) July 25, 2023

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It’s been three years since I updated this site – COVID re-adjusted all our priorities. Too much stuff has happened since the last update so I won’t go into detail on all of it; just the highlights!

TONS of papers submitted and published. Seriously, to many to list here. Go take a look at the Publications page.

New grants awarded, and old grants completed. Go look at the Funding page.

Fulbright student Jaime Manzano-Alvarez successfully completed his MS degree (“Dehydration stress and Mayaro virus vector competence in Aedes aegypti”)! Jaime will be staying with us for his PhD!

Renuka Joseph successfully defended her PhD (“The characterization of the insect-specific virus, Eilat virus, and it’s potential as a tool against West Nile virus”), and was awarded a competitive postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH. Congratulations Renuka!

Rebecca Johnson successfully defended her PhD (“Anopheles gambiae densovirus as a viral vector for the expression of small RNAs and transgenes”) and began a postdoc at the Connecticut Agriculture Station.

Karen Kemerimbe successfully defended her PhD (“Investigating the modes of transmission and sex-specific responses of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes to a mosquito-borne alphavirus infection”) and is now the Assistant Director in the Penn State Office of Foundation Relations.

Cory Henderson successfully defended his PhD (“Arboviral dynamics and evolutionary genetics of mosquito vectors”) is is now a postdoc at Rutgers University.

Allyson Ray successfully defended her PhD (”Deformed wing virus in the western honey bee (Apis mellifera): Genotypic and phenotypic variation across contexts and scales”) and is now a postdoc at Vanderbilt University.

Jason was awarded a special NSF Merit extension for Special creativity to continue work on ReMOT Control gene editing technologies.

Jason was awarded the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair in Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology.