Congratulations to Helle who successfully defended her MS thesis! Bravo Helle! We are so happy to have you stay in the lab as a PhD student!

Excited to share our newest paper on mosquito thermal biology resulting from a great collaboration between Megan Fritz's lab at the University of Maryland, Clément Vinauger and and our lab at Virginia Tech! In this study, we investigated how larval thermotolerance varies among populations of the Culex pipiens Assemblage across the United States, providing new insights into how mosquitoes may respond to changing climates. I'm especially proud that this is Helle Aronson's first

We are excited to announce that the lab has received a NIH R21 grant with Dr. Nisha Duggal (VT Vet. Med.) and Dr. Dana Hawley (VT Biol. Sciences)! We will be studying the Impacts of coinfection in WNV transmission in songbirds. We are grateful to the reviewers on the panel as well as to the PO for allowing us to embark on this exciting project. We are looking forward to keeping working with the Duggal lab and Hawley lab! Project abstract: West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic f