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UPS grad gets $1,000 to study mosquitoes
Seattle Times

DAVIS, CALIF.--A graduate of the University of Puget Sound has won an award to study mosquitoes.

Lisa Reimer was the winner of the 2006 William C. Reeves New Investigator Award, sponsored by the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California and coordinated by the University of California, Davis, Mosquito Research Program, according to a press release from the university.

She received $1,000.

Reimer was the lead author of a scientific paper published last December in Insect Molecular Biology on the distribution of insecticide resistance genes in Anopheles gambiae. The researchers found that on Bioko Island, off the west coast of Africa, subpopulations of A. gambiae exhibit very different levels of resistance in response to pyrethroids, insecticides commonly used to kill mosquitoes, the release says.

Reimer received her bachelor's degree in biology in 2000 from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.

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