Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, February 24, 2025
Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D.
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mosquitoes: A Flexible and Dangerous Predator of Humans
Recommended Readings:
Morita, Takeshi, et al. “Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans.” Science Advances 11.1 (2025): eadn5758.
Sorrells, Trevor R., et al. “A persistent behavioral state enables sustained predation of humans by mosquitoes.” Elife 11 (2022): e76663.
Jové, Veronica, et al. “Sensory discrimination of blood and floral nectar by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.” Neuron 108.6 (2020): 1163-1180.
McMeniman, Conor J., et al. “Multimodal integration of carbon dioxide and other sensory cues drives mosquito attraction to humans.” Cell 156.5 (2014): 1060-1071.
DeGennaro, Matthew, et al. “orco mutant mosquitoes lose strong preference for humans and are not repelled by volatile DEET.” Nature 498.7455 (2013): 487-491.
