Medical Entomology

Graduate Students

Classroom Learning Opportunities:

Graduate students have several options for course work related to Medical Entomology, including a lecture and laboratory Medical Entomology course (ENT 574), a course in Insect-Virus Interactions (ENT 510), and a Special Topics course (ENT 590F) with varied content related to the field.  Please see the Iowa State University, Department of Entomology course catalog for more information.

Research Pursuits:

Graduate students can be trained in the Medical Entomology Laboratory under the auspices of the Entomology program, or via interdepartmental majors including: the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) graduate major, the Interdepartmental Microbiology (IM) program, or the Immunobiology Graduate program.

Former Students: 

Jon Oliver earned a PhD in the Entomology program in the Summer of 2011.  His dissertation is entitled "Ecological, organismal, and cellular explorations of three medically significant species of ticks in Iowa." Currently, he is pursuing posdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota.

 

Grishma Parikh earned a PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology in the Spring of 2011.  Her dissertation is entitled "Cell biology of pathogen-hemocyte interactions in the mosquito innate immune response."

 

Patrick Jennings earned a Masters Degree in Entomology in the Spring of 2011 with research described in his thesis "Transcriptional regulation of mosquito oogenesis."