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.

The Disease Ecology Lab combines ecological fieldwork with laboratory and computational approaches to determine where pathogens exist and how they evolve and spread. Dr. Vincenzo Ellis heads the lab, which includes four graduate students and one undergraduate student and has trained and provided research experiences to 30 undergraduate students at UD since 2019. The Disease Ecology Lab understands the importance of prevention and control of infectious diseases and the demand for strategies to reduce the suffering of people who are sickened by these illnesses.

THE IMPACT OF YOUR SUPPORT 

Your gift helps train the scientists of tomorrow, giving our graduate and undergraduate students unique opportunities to participate in novel research and present their results to the scientific community and the public. 

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.