UF IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory

04/10/2023

FMEL faculty and PhD student Daniel Perez-Ramos are enjoying being a part of DetVetores 2023 in Pedra Azul, Espirito Santo, Brazil!!!!!

30/10/2022

ATTENTION: PhD assistantship starting in Spring 2023 available in Lord Lab at UF/IFAS FMEL!! See details below!

29/09/2022

Link to UF/IFAS Extension fact sheet on hurricanes and mosquitoes:

University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension outreach is a partnership between state, federal, and county governments to provide scientific knowledge and expertise to the public. The University of Florida (UF), together with Florida A&M University (FAMU), administers....

29/09/2022

Mosquito control programs: Link to Prevent & Protect's emergency response toolkit that includes prepared messages for media and public about what to expect from mosquito populations post-Ian: https://preventmosquitoes.org/emergency-response-toolkit/
An example message is provided here. Florida Mosquito Control Association American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA)

29/07/2022

Coming next week

02/12/2021

Congratulations to PhD candidate Abdullah Alomar for being awarded the T. Wainwright Miller, Jr. Scholarship from the Florida Mosquito Control Association!!!!!

22/11/2021

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Kristin Sloyer for being selected as the Entomology & Nematology department's nominee for the Lockhart Dissertation fellowship! We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you, Kristin during the CALS competition!

08/11/2021

Great write-up by Lourdes Mederos, UF/IFAS Southeast District Public Relations Specialist, about Abdullah Allomar's (PhD candidate in Alto lab) and Barry Alto's research

Insecticide resistance among the Aedes aegypti mosquito remains a source of frustration for public health and mosquito control agencies, medical entomologists and ecologists. Known as the yellow fever mosquito, this species poses a public health... Read More

03/11/2021

Congrats to Xiaodi Wang for winning second place in the virtual graduate student 10-minute paper competition in the Diptera biology and control section of MUVE at !

03/11/2021

Congrats to Yasmin Tavares for winning second place in the in-person graduate student poster competition in the Mosquito biology, management, and disease section of MUVE at !

03/11/2021

Congrats to Kristin Sloyer for winning second place in the in-person graduate student 10-minute paper competition in the Mosquitoes, biting midges, and flies section of MUVE at !

03/11/2021