We are excited to share our newest work on mosquito sugar feeding now published in the Journal of Medical Entomology . This paper entitled " Effect of landscape heterogeneity on mosquito abundance and sugar feeding behavior" was led by MS student Morgen VanderGiessen, MS then PhD student Forde Upshur, MS student Mariana Castadena-Guzman, collaborators Luis Escobar and Clément Vinauger. Abstract: Mosquito-borne diseases pose a dire threat to humanity, claiming over 700,000 l

Congratulations to Shanni who have both received a Global Change Center Undergraduate Research grant to support her work on kissing bugs this year! Well done Shanni!

We are excited to announce that the lab has rece ived a 2025 Interdisciplinary Team-Building Pilot Grant from CeZAP to work on invasive Aedes mosquitoes with Dr. Michael Robert from the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. We are grateful to CeZAP for supporting this project entitled: Impact of Temperature on Aedes albopictus Distribution and Pathogen Transmission Dynamics: A Modeling and Experimental Approach !

We had a good time hiking to the beautiful Cascades in Pembroke with the Vinauger lab today! Thanks all! Missing several undergrads who...

We are excited to welcome Iris Schmeder (University of Texas) and Ray Kennedy (LeHigh University) to our NSF REU program at Mountain Lake...

Huge congrats to Gia , Katelyn and Helle for graduating this semester! Well done!!! Gia is moving to NC to attend grad school while...

James (top picture) recently presented his work on mosquito plant inetractions at the IGC GCC symposium . Helle , Katelyn and Gavyn ...

Congratulations to Helle and Gavyn who have both received a Global Change Center Undergraduate Research grant to support their work this...

The Lahondère and Vinauger laboratories along with the Eastwood laboratory were well represented at Hokie BUgFest 2024! We had a lot of...

It’s a wrap! Our  National Science Foundation (NSF)  REU season at Mountain Lake Biological Station ( University of Virginia ) is now...

Congratulations to Forde Upshur who successfully defended his PhD on July 18th! Forde's work focused on mosquito sugar feeding. Bravo Dr....

Big congrats to Shajaesza who successfully defended her Master's thesis last week!! Shajaesza's project focused on understanding the...

Congratulations to Helle who has received a SURF fellowship to support her work this Summer!! Helle will continue working on Aedes...

Forde's new paper on sugar feeding has been published in Scientific Reports! Forde worked with two undergrads, Mik (supported by the...

We have a new paper entitled "The role of Culex territans mosquitoes in the transmission of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis to amphibian...