Dr. Ethan Degner of Wisconsin Lutheran College will present a talk about his work entitled, “Chronicling a mosquito’s sex life from intromission to oviposition.”<\/p>\n
The abstract is as follows:<\/p>\n
“Each year, mosquito-borne infections kill hundreds of thousands and sicken hundreds of millions more. Controlling populations of mosquitoes is a public health imperative, but despite decades of effort and technological advances, mosquitoes remain humanity’s number one killer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Manipulating mosquito reproduction offers a promising avenue by which mosquito populations may be controlled, but doing so requires an intimate understanding of mosquito reproduction, from mating to egg-laying and a host of events in between. In this seminar, I use the yellow fever mosquito\u00a0Aedes aegypti<\/i> to chronicle a mosquito\u2019s reproductive life, highlighting the modifications that a mosquito\u2019s sperm undergo prior to fertilization. I also present efforts to catalog the proteins and transcripts involved in these events. Proper sperm function within a female is a requirement for producing the next generation of pathogen-transmitting mosquitoes, and therefore understanding the molecular and cellular underpinnings that govern mosquito reproduction may allow new methods for mosquito control.”<\/p>\n The presentation will begin at 4:00 PM in Lapham Hall N101, preceded by an informal reception from 3:45 – 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Ethan Degner of Wisconsin Lutheran College will present a talk about his work entitled, “Chronicling a mosquito’s sex life from intromission to oviposition.” The abstract is as follows: “Each year, mosquito-borne infections kill hundreds of thousands and sicken hundreds …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37839,"featured_media":8110,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[36],"class_list":["post-8109","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-colloquia","cat_colloquia"],"yoast_head":"\n