Speaker: Stephanie Mundis
PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida
Thursday, October 22, 2020
2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube
University of Florida
All are welcome to attend.
In recent years, deaths and illnesses from mosquito-borne and other vector-borne diseases have been on the rise in areas around the world. In my doctoral dissertation research, I have investigated two aspects of mosquito-borne disease risk in Florida: zoonotic circulation of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEEV) at the local scale and insecticide resistance in the anthropophilic Aedes aegypti mosquito species at the state scale. In both cases, I drawn from methods from the fields of landscape ecology and medical geography to identify landscape, meteorological, and ecological drivers of these phenomenon.
Stephanie Mundis is a doctoral candidate in the Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab (advised by Dr. Sadie J. Ryan) in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Geography & GIS and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. She then completed parallel master’s degrees in Biology and Geography at New Mexico State University. Her research focuses on applying geographic methods to answer vector ecology questions across a range of spatial scales.
For more information, email Dr. Mike Binford at mbinford@ufl.edu