The Rutland Herald just ran an article about our research! You can read it here.

I delivered a poster about our CRISR-Cas detection assay at the annual meeting of the Society of Vector Ecology. Maya and Samantha were co-authors! There were many amazing presentations on ticks and mosquitoes as well as a special session on the reemergence of new world screwworm. Thanks for a great meeting!

This year the Vermont Wildlife and Disease Ecology meeting was held at Norwich University. The meeting organizers are David Allen (Middlebury College), Dagan Loisel (St. Michael's College), Allison Neal and me. Thank you to the Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Dr. Stephen Rich (UMass Amherst) and the Vermont Biomedical Research Network for providing lunch! Thanks to Allison Neal (Norwich University) for organizing and to everyone who attended/presented. The meeting agenda can be found here.

Several New England tick ecologists met in Castleton for a mini tick ID workshop and visit to some of my field sites. In attendance were Allie Gardner (University of Maine), Vera Bobskill (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Joseph Savage (Dartmouth College), David Allen (Middlebury College) and his students, Kristen Ross (VTSU Castleton) and our VTSU summer field technicians (Cait Witt and Dylan Holmes). Thank you, Vera, for leading the Tick ID workshop!

We had a great meeting today on the UMass Amherst campus. Congratulations to everyone on a successful four years of NEWVEC. Left to right: Me, Tom Mather, Andrew Lover and Neeta Connally. Looking forward to year 5!

This paper describes a New England Wide survey to understand attitudes and prevalence of peridomestic vector control across New England, and to identify factors associated with self-reported residential vector control uptake. Congratulations Fatma, Johanna and Andrew!

Congratulations to Maya for winning the Biology award and Michael on his graduation. Thanks Samantha, Toby, Maya and Michael for all of your hard work this year in the lab!

Another poster presentation for Maya and Samantha, this time at the Vermont Biomedical Research Network Career Day. Thanks to Robert Franklin and Dr. Andrea Corcoran for the photos!

While attending the Entomology meeting, we took a quick trip to Lester Park to check out 490 million year old fossils of Stromatolites, structures created by cyanobacteria (embedded in the black rocks)!

Maya and Samantha delivered a poster presentation at the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting in Saratoga Springs, NY (and did an amazing job!). The poster was titled "Operation BOOT&S: Borrelia burgdorferi OspC Variants Over Time & Space". Here they are with their poster and with Fran Tick, a friendly blacklegged tick who infected the conference with joy (thanks to Neeta Connally for the photo).