People

Principal Investigator

Ryan C Smith
Assistant Professor
Insect molecular biology, Innate immunity, Mosquito-borne disease

Research Staff

Ryan Tokarz
Assistant Scientist I
mosquito ecology

Post-doctoral fellows

Hyeog Sun Kwon
Post-doctoral fellow
Insect molecular biology, insect physiology, Innate immunity

Graduate Students

Eleanor Field
Graduate Student
Entomology, West Nile virus
Jyothsna (Jo) Ramesh Kumar
Graduate Student
Innate immunity
Rebekah Reynolds
Graduate Student
Medical Entomology

Lab Alumni

Ben Arends
Lab Technician, Undergraduate researcher
Mosquito rearing, molecular biology
Jesse Brooks
Undergraduate student
Insect molecular biology
Sarah Chicchelly
Undergraduate student
Microbiology
Brendan Dunphy
Assistant Scientist II
mosquito ecology, surveillance, and rearing; West Nile virus surveillance; mosquito anatomy & physiology; mosquito taxonomy
Ella Gehrke
Undergraduate student
Insect molecular biology
Drew Guinness
Undergraduate Student
Mosquito Biology
Kris Kovach
Research Associate I
Mosquito surveillance, mosquito identification, West Nile virus