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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:OEB Seminar Series: Leslie B. Vosshall -- CANCELLED
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SUMMARY:OEB Seminar Series: Leslie B. Vosshall -- CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:<p><a href="https://www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/heads-of-laboratories/913-leslie-b-vosshall/">Leslie B. Vosshall&nbsp;</a><br>Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockfeller University&nbsp;<br>Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute</p><p><em>Mosquitoes: A Flexible and Dangerous Predator of Humans</em></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Female <span>mosquitoes require a blood meal to complete egg development.&nbsp;In carrying out this innate behavior, mosquitoes spread dangerous infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Humans attract mosquitoes via multiple sensory cues including emitted body odor, heat, and carbon dioxide in the breath.&nbsp;The mosquito perceives differences in these cues, both between and within species, to determine which animal or human to target for blood-feeding.&nbsp;Vosshall's lab has&nbsp;developed CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing in the </span><em>Aedes aegypti</em><span>&nbsp;mosquito with the goal of&nbsp;understanding how sensory cues are integrated by the female mosquito to lead to host-seeking behavior.&nbsp;Recent advances from her group in analyzing the molecular biology of mosquito behavior will be discussed.</span></p><p><strong>Host: </strong>OEB Graduate Students</p>
LOCATION:Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue
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