BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:VideoCast CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bitten: Why Are Some People More Attractive to Mosquitoes Than Others? DTSTART:20221026T180000Z DTEND:20221026T190000Z DTSTAMP:20221102T122800Z UID:Videocast--46007 LOCATION:https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=46007 DESCRIPTION:Leslie B. Vosshall\, Ph.D.\, Howard Hughes Medical Institute\nThis 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.\n\nFor more information go to 'https://oir.nih.gov/wals'>https://oir.nih.gov/wals X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
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