Announcements and Events

UC Mosquito Research Program Grants   Culex quinquefasciatus (Photo by Anthony Cornel) Grants Proposal Presentation Day Set July 19 in Riverside Call for New/Continuing Proposals, 2007-8 (Deadline passed) Annual Progress Reports (Deadline passed) William C. Reeves Award: 2007 Recipient Carrie Nielsen Lanzaro Vector Genetics Lab Sand Fly Anopheles gambiae Culex mosquitoes    Meetings   Public Advisory Committee meeting from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007 in 1006 Haring Hall, UC Davis Annual UCMRP Grants Proposal Presentation Day Held July 19, 2007 All principal investigators will present a short presentation of their proposal to the grants review committee at the annual Mosquito Research Program Grants Proposal Presentation Day, set July 19 in Riverside. Public Advisory Committee Mosquito Research and Extension Workgroup (Agricultural and Natural Resources or ANR)    Announcements   UC Davis Malaria Awareness Day took place from 2 to 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall. UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef delivered introductory remarks. Speakers included faculty from the UC Davis and UC San Francisco Schools of Medicine; the Department of Entomology; and the UC School of Veterinary Medicine. UC Mosquito Research Program in February 2006 formed the UC Malaria Research and Control Group to Battle Malaria in Africa, comprised of 21 UC scientists from five campuses collaborating with the 61 districts in the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California. The collaborators: UC Davis: Anthony Cornel, Bruce Hammock, Sharon Lawler, Walter Leal, Shirley Luckhart, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, William Reisen and Thomas Scott UC Irvine: Timothy Bradley, Anthony James and Guiyun Yan UCLA: Charles Taylor UC Riverside: Peter Atkinson, Timothy Bradley, Ring T. Cardé, Brian A. Federici, Sarjeet S. Gill, Karine Le Roch, Alexander S. Raikhel and William Walton UC Berkeley: Michael Levine Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California (MVCAC): Christopher Voight, executive director    Conferences, Seminars and Workshops   Anopheles gambiae, the malaria mosquito. (Photo by Anthony Cornel) April 8, 2006 8th Annual Northern California International Health Conference: Global Health Challenges of Emerging Diseases, Saturday, April 8, 2006 from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), UC Davis. Conference speakers included Gregory Lanzaro, director of the UC Mosquito Research Program and director of the UC Davis Center for Vectorborne Diseases. See follow-up news release. Presented by The Bay Area International Health Interest Group, UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, and the Stanford School of Medicine Hosted by the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the UC Davis Office of Continuing Medical Education Sponsored by the UC Davis School of Medicine, the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, and Kaiser Permanente     May 17, 2006 10th Annual Future Faire, “Meeting the Challenges of New and Emerging Infectious Diseases," 5:30 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, May 17, UC Davis Medical Center. Among the participants were medical entomologists Gregory Lanzaro, director of the UC Mosquito Research Program and director of the UC Davis Center for Vectorborne Diseases; and Shirley Luckhart of the UC Davis School of Medicine/UC Davis Center for Vectorborne Diseases. Back to top

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