Classroom Learning Opportunities:

Graduate students have several options for course work related to Medical Entomology, including a laboratory section of Medical Entomology (ENT 574) a course in Global Protozoology (ENT 578), 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 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdepartmental Graduate Program.

Current Students: 

Jon Oliver is working on a Master's degree in the Entomology program, that focuses on tick ecology and physiology. He spends the summer months in the field, working on tick-borne disease surveillance in Iowa.

Grishma Parikh is a PhD candidate in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology program, doing her dissertation work in the Medical Entomology Laboratory.