User:Dina M. Fonseca

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My primary research interests are the evolution, ecology and control of invasive mosquitoes, the principal vectors of significant disease epizootics and epidemics. Our results indicate that populations differ in vectorial capacity over space and time, profoundly affecting epidemiological landscapes and risk estimates, and that human-mediated dispersal drives invasiveness. Rapid evolution in invasive mosquito vectors is a good model for the effects of Global Climate Change on disease epidemiology. Summary of education and employment: Professor of Entomology, teaches courses in Medical and Veterinary Entomology and Population Genetics, researches the ecology and evolution of invasive species and does extension research on ways to control invasive mosquitoes. B.S. in Biology and Geology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Geneticist at the Smithsonian Institution, where she is still a Research Associate, then Assistant Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences, joined Rutgers University in 2007 as an Associate Professor. Became a Full Professor in 2014.