Lab News and Events

June 6th 2022 - New Award: Our proposal “Investigating the Effect of Wildfire Derived Environmental Changes on Invasive Mosquitos (Aedes aegypti) - Impacts of Char and Ash on Larval Development, Nutrition, and Microbiome.” to the UC Davis New Research Initiatives and Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Grant was funded!

April 10, 2022 - Award: Geoff Attardo wins the Pacific Branch Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology Award!

April 10, 2022 - Award: Taylor Kelly wins the Pacific Branch Student Leadership Award!

July 29, 2020 - Article: Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a time - understanding this unusual strategy could help fight the disease they spread.

July 22, 2019 - New Publication: Comparative genomic analysis of six Glossina genomes, vectors of African trypanosomes

February 11, 2019 - Article: The New York Times - Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way

February 8th, 2019 - Letter to Science: Putting invertebrate lactation in context

January 31st 2018 - New Publication: Rapid autophagic regression of the milk gland during involution is critical for maximizing tsetse viviparous reproductive output

November 18th 2018 - New Publication: Toward Implementation of Mosquito Sterile Insect Technique: The Effect of Storage Conditions on Survival of Male Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) During Transport

June 30th 2017 - Article: Voice of America - Tsetse Fly's Weakness May Be Its Symbiotic Bacteria

June 28th 2017 - New Publication:    Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia: transcriptomic and metabolomic landscapes reveal highly integrated physiological networks.