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Lisa Baik, Assistant Professor, Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, presents "Understanding and Targeting the Taste System of Deadly Mosquitoes".
I am a neurobiologist interested in studying the mechanism by which blood-feeding arthropods guide their complex behaviors. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on earth. My life-long mission is to ‘fight the bite’ and to prevent the spread of deadly pathogens.
I was an undergraduate student here at UC Davis, double majoring in NPB and Psychology. My interest in basic biology and insects started here. I then went on to complete my PhD with Dr. Todd Holmes at UC Irvine and my postdoctoral training with Dr. John Carlson at the Yale University. I've been funded by the NSF GRFP and the Arcs Foundation as a graduate student, and then from the NIH through the F32 and the K99 Pathway to Independence awards as a postdoc.
One of my proudest accomplishments is being awarded the Yale postdoc Mentoring Award in 2023 after being nominated by my mentees.
Host: Dr. Stacey Combes (sacombes@ucdavis.edu)