Education
PhD, Colorado State University, 1997
MS, North Carolina State University, 1993
BS, North Carolina State University, 1990
Overview
Arthropod-borne diseases are responsible for enormous amounts of morbidity and mortality world-wide. Research in my laboratory is focused on genetic diversity within, and the genetic structuring of, arthropod and arthropod-borne pathogen populations. This research helps identify which arthropod populations may be important for disease transmission and which pathogen populations may be responsible for causing disease. The genetic information gathered in these studies also aids in the understanding of the evolution and genetic constraints of these vector-pathogen systems and may provide insight into how these cycles of disease may be disrupted. Current research activities in the laboratory are focused on malaria in Southern and Central Africa, Lyme disease, Rickettsia and other tick-borne bacteria in the Eastern United States, and dengue, yellow fever and Zika in South America. We are also working on novel trapping and surveillance technologies for vector-borne pathogens.
Honors and Awards
2020-Present Chair-Elect, American Committee on Medical Entomology
2019-Present Executive Board, Society for Vector Ecology
2019-Present Executive Council, American Committee on Medical Entomology
2019-Present Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Entomology
2013-2014 President of the Society for Vector Ecology
2010-2011 President, Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology Section of the Entomological Society of America
2005-2006 President of the Acarological Society of America
Our publications represent the work conducted in the laboratory, so tend to be quite varied. Below are five of our most recent research publications.
- (Selected papers)
Drummond, C, ME Gebhardt, MTS Robles, G Carpi, I Hoyer, A Pastusiak, MR Reddy, E Jackson, DE Norris and JM Pipas. 2020. Stability and detection of nucleic acid from viruses and hosts in mosquito blood meals. PLoS One. 15(6): e0231061. PMID: 32525960. PMC7289426.
- Rodriques, NB, RSM Godoy, AS Orfano, BA Chaves, TB Campolina, BA Costa, LS Felix, BM Silva, DE Norris, PFP Pimenta and NFC Secundino. 2021. Brazilian Aedes aegypti as a competent vector for multiple complex arboviral coinfections. Journal of Infectious Diseases (accepted Jan 2021) PMID: 33544850. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab066.
- Hoffman, JE, II Ciubotariu, L Simubali, T Medenda, WJ Moss, GC Carpi, DE Norris, and JC Stevenson for the Southern Africa ICEMR Team. 2021. Phylogenetic complexity of morphologically identified Anopheles squamosus in southern Zambia. Insects [special issue] (accepted Jan 2021)
- Ciubotariu, II, CM Jones, T Kobayashi, T Bobanga, M Muleba, JC Pringle, JC Stevenson, G Carpi, and DE Norris and for the Southern and Central Africa ICEMR Team. 2020. Genetic diversity of Anopheles coustani (Diptera: Culicidae) in malaria transmission foci in southern and central Africa. Journal of Medical Entomology. 57(6): 1782-1792. PMID: 32614047.
- Hast, MA, JC Stevenson, M Muleba, M Chaponda, J-B Kabuya, M Mulenga, T Shields, WJ Moss and DE Norris for the Southern and Central Africa ICEMR Team. 2020. The impact of three years of targeted indoor residual spraying with pirimiphos-methyl on household vector abundance in a high transmission area of northern Zambia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (accepted Oct 2020) PMID: 33350376.
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