Air date: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2PM


Category:WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Description: This is WALS NIH Director's Lecture, one of three special lectures this season. This lecture may be of interest to the NIH neurobiology, immunology, and global health communities and anyone who hikes in Minnesota in July. Dr. Vosshall is the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. In 2022, she became vice president and chief scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Vosshall has performed groundbreaking work to establish the Aedes aegypti mosquito as a genetic model organism for neurobiology, with particular emphasis on how mosquitoes hunt humans and the subsequent design of small molecules to block mosquito biting behavior. This research holds promise for combating the spread of yellow fever, dengue, Zika, and emerging viruses transmitted to humans through the bite of the female mosquito.


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Author: Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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