Our research into juvenile blacklegged tick feeding on white-tailed deer has been published by the Journal of Medical Entomology. You can read the article here. We had a great meeting in Orono, Maine to kick off the DISES project and to share field methods for both the DISES and NEWVEC projects. Thank you Allie for hosting us!
 Maya, Samantha and Jade delivered a poster presentation on our CRISPR/Cas12a DNA detection system at this year's VBRN Career Day event in Burlington. Congratulations!
Dr. Kristen Ross (VTSU Castleton) and I are co-investigators on a new NSF grant awarded through the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) program. The project, titled "Management of linked human and ecosystem health threats in the private woodland socio-environmental system" brings together experts from behavioral science, entomology, human dimensions of natural resources, and forest ecology to investigate the roles of individual and social learning in the management of interacting ecosystem and public health threats. As a part of this project, we will be researching associations between invasive plant species and blacklegged ticks. Congratulations to Allie Gardner (University of Maine, Orono), the Principal Investigator of the award!
Congratulations to Deacon, Allie, Kali, Alexy and Samantha who delivered presentations at the 6th annual meeting of Vermont Disease and Wildlife Ecologists. This year the meeting was held on the Johnson campus of Vermont State University,   |
