About This Project
Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States get Lyme Disease every year. Furthermore, tick and mosquito-transmitted infectious diseases are becoming more common. To address these public health issues, the Disease Ecology Lab needs your financial support to advance research on Lyme Disease and other infectious diseases, such as West Nile Virus. Students in the lab conduct research on ticks, mosquitoes, small mammal reservoir hosts, pathogenic bacteria, viruses and birds and their malaria parasites. Watch a short video clip about some of our recent research.
The Disease Ecology Lab combines fieldwork with state-of-the-art laboratory and computational approaches to confirm where pathogens exist and determine how they evolve and spread. Dr. Vincenzo Ellis heads the lab, which includes five graduate and two undergraduate students (both of whom are conducting senior honors thesis projects) and has trained and provided research experiences to more than 20 undergraduate students since 2019. Dr. Ellis and his team understand the importance of prevention and control of infectious diseases and the demand for strategies to reduce the suffering of individuals who fall victim to these diseases.
How your support makes a difference!
Your support helps us stay at the forefront of research innovation by offsetting the costs of genome sequencing and pathogen surveillance. Equally as important, your financial support helps train the scientists of tomorrow, giving our graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in novel research and present their results at conferences.
Your support of the Disease Ecology Lab is critical to advancing prevention of Lyme Disease and other infectious diseases. Every gift will allow the Disease Ecology Lab to continue this work to benefit everyone who is at risk from Lyme Disease, West Nile virus or other pathogen-caused illnesses. Please join us in this urgent endeavor.
