Author Archives: lch27@cornell.edu

There have been quite a few new publications to report from the lab!  Congratulations to the following colleagues and trainees for 2021 – present contributions!

Burtis JC, Bickerton MW, Indelicato N, Poggi JD, Crans SC and LC Harrington. 2022. Effectiveness of a Buffalo Turbine and A1 Mist Sprayer for the Areawide Deployment of Larvicide for Mosquito Control in an Urban Residential Setting. Journal of Medical Entomology.

Danhui Wang, Jason Yang, Janam Pandya, John M. Clark, Laura Harrington, Courtney Murdock, Lili He. 2022. Quantitative age grading of mosquitoes using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Analytical Science Advances 3 (1-2), 47-53.

Garcia Castillo, S. S., Pritts, K. S., Krishnan, R. S., Harrington, L. C., and League, G. P. 2021. Harmonic convergence coordinates swarm mating by enhancing mate detection in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 1-18.

Amaro A, Ahmed-Braimah YH, League GP, Pitcher S, Avila FW, Harrington LC* and MF Wolfner* 2021. Seminal fluid proteins induce transcriptome changes in the Aedes aegypti female lower reproductive tract, including up-regulation of immunity-related RNAs *Corresponding Authors. BMC Genomics 22 (1), 1-13.

League GP, Degner EC, Pitcher SA, Hafezi Y, Tennant E, Cruz PC, Krishnan RS, Garcia Castillo SS, Parra C, Avila FW, Wolfner MF and LC Harrington. 2021. The impact of mating and sugar feeding on blood-feeding physiology and behavior in the arbovirus vector mosquito Aedes aegypti. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15 (9), e0009815.

Joseph R McMillan, Christina A Harden, James C Burtis, Mallery I Breban, John J Shepard, Tanya A Petruff, Michael J Misencik, Angela B Bransfield, Joseph D Poggi, Laura C Harrington, Theodore G Andreadis, Philip M Armstrong. 2021. The community‐wide effectiveness of municipal larval control programs for West Nile virus risk reduction in Connecticut, USA. Pest Management Science. 77 (11), 5186-520.

GP League, LC Harrington, SA Pitcher, JK Geyer, LL Baxter, J Montijo, Rowland JG, Murdock CC and LJ Cator. 2021. Sexual selection theory meets disease vector control: Testing harmonic convergence as a “good genes” signal in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 15 (7), e0009540

Fikrig K and LC Harrington. 2021. Understanding and interpreting mosquito blood feeding studies: the case of Aedes albopictus. Trends in Parasitology. 37 (11), 959-975.

Reitmayer CM, Pathak AK, LC Harrington, Brindley MA, Cator LJ and CC Murdock. 2021. Sex, Age, and Acoustic Mating Interactions Affect the Immunity of Aedes aegypti Offspring. Communications Biology. Commun Biol 4, 723 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02236-5

EM Mader, C Ganser, A Geiger, LC Harrington, J Foley, RL Smith, … 2021. A survey of tick surveillance and control practices in the United States. Journal of medical entomology 58 (4), 1503-1512.

Burtis JC, Poggi J, Duval, TB, Bidlack E, Shepard JJ, Matton P, Rossetti R, and LC Harrington. 2021. Evaluation of a methoprene aerial application for the control of Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) in wetland breeding larval habitats. Journal of Medical Entomology. 58 (6), 2330-2337.

Sherpa P, Piedmonte NP, Wunderlin K, Harrington LC and RC Falco.2021. Optimal collection methods for Asian longhorned ticks, Haemaphysalis longicornis (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in the Northeast US. Journal of Medical Entomology. 58 (6), 2255-2263 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab083

Nesgos AT, Harrington LC and EM Mader. 2021. Experience and Knowledge of Lyme Disease: A Scoping Review of Patient-Provider Communication” Zoonoses and Public Health. 12:(4) 101714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101714

Burtis JC, Poggi J, Payne B, Campbell SR, and LC Harrington. 2021. The susceptibility of Ixodes scapularis collected from a long-term 4-poster treatment area on Shelter Island, Long Island NY. J Med Entomol. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab054

Smith, LB, Chen C, Silva JJ, Harrington LC and JG Scott. 2021. Fitness costs of individual and combined pyrethroid resistance mechanisms, kdr and CYP-mediated detoxification, in Aedes aegypti. PLoS Negl. Trop Dis 15 (3), e0009271 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009271

Cator L.C, Wyer CAS and C Harrington. 2021. Mosquito sexual selection and reproductive control programs. Trends in Parasitology. 37 (4), 330-339 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.11.009

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Mervin Cuadera, Cierra Briggs, Lindsay Baxter and Kate Thornburg graduated with their MS degrees in May 2021!  They are on to bigger and better things.  We will provide updates on their new positions on the alumni page.  Also, check out the NEVBD website for more details soon!  http://www.neregionalvectorcenter.com/ms-in-entomology   

Lindsay Baxter won 3^rd place in the recent American Mosquito Control Association’s Annual Meeting student competition!  She presented her thesis work entitled “Ecological Associations of Powassan Virus in Southern Maine”.

Congratulations to graduate student Joe Poggi, recipient of the 2021 New Jersey Mosquito Control Association Daniel M. Jobbins Scholarship! This scholarship will support Joe’s work conducting research on the vector ecology of Jamestown Canyon virus in New Hampshire this upcoming summer

Congratulations to Kara on her new publication ‘Sugar feeding patterns of New York Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are affected by saturation deficit, flowers, and host seeking‘  in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Noble JM, Degner EC, Kourkoutis FW and L.C. Harrington. 2019. Cryo-electron microscopy reveals that sperm modification coincides with female fertility in the mosquito Aedes aegypti.  Scientific Reports. 9, 18537. 

Shragai T, Harrington LC, Alfonso-Parra C and F Avila. 2019.  Oviposition site attraction of Aedes albopictus to sites with con- and heterospecific larvae during an ongoing invasion in Medellin, Colombia. Parasites and Vectors. 12:455

Aldersley A, Pongsiri A, Bunmee K, Kijchalao U, Chittham, W, Fansiri T, Pathawong N, Qureshi A, Harrington LC, Ponlawat A, LJ Cator. 2019. Too “sexy” for the field? Paired measures of laboratory and semi-field performance illustrate how laboratory adaptation can increase the apparent mating fitness of Aedes aegypti transgenic strains. Parasites and Vectors 12: 357.

League GP, Baxter LL, Wolfner MF, and LC Harrington. 2019. Male accessory gland molecules inhibit harmonic convergence in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Current Biology.  29(6): R196-R197.

Oviposition site attraction of Aedes albopictus to sites with con- and heterospecific larvae during an ongoing invasion in Medellin, Colombia. 

Congratulations Ethan!  We will miss you!  Good luck in your new role as Professor.

Kara passed her PhD qualifying exam on May 24th!