Active Projects Associated with the Institute

NORA BESANSKY
• Ecological Genomics of Anopheles gambiae

FRANK COLLINS
• Malaria Transmission Consortium
• VectorBase: A Bioinformatics Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens

MICHAEL FERDIG
• Copy Number Variation in Malaria Parasites
• Determinants of Growth and Fitness in Drug Resistant Malaria Parasites
• Genetic Control of Cross-Resistance in Plasmodium Falciparum
• High-resolution Hybridization-based Genotyping in Plasmodium Falciparum

MALCOLM FRASER
• A Novel Transgenic Silkworm System for Recombinant Glycoprotein Production
• Developing Coupled Transgenic Ribozyme and Insecticide Resistance Approaches to Establishing
Dengue Virus Refractoriness in Natural Populations
• Engineering Transgenic Silkworms to Product Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers
• Transgenic Engineering of Aedine Mosquitoes Using the PiggyBac Transposon

HOPE HOLLOCHER
• The Impact of Population Structure on Pathogen Transmission in Balinese Macaques

MARY ANN MCDOWELL
• Inhibition of Interleukin-12 in Leishmania-infected Macrophages
• Interleukin-12 Regulation in Leishmania-infected Human Dendritic Cells
• Sand Fly Genome Project and Anti-Saliva Vaccine Development

JEANNE ROMERO-SEVERSON
• The Indiana Center for Insect Genomics

JEFF SCHOREY
• M. Avium Gpls in Macrophage Activation and Virulence
• Macrophage Signaling Upon M. Avium Infection

DAVID SEVERSON
• Molecular Genetics of Dengue Resistance in Mosquitoes

TOM STREIT, CSC
• Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti
• Asante Foundation Grant in Support of the Haiti Project

Other Faculty Research Projects

GARY BELOVSKY
• LTREB: Ecosystem Structure and Function in Palouse Grasslands
• Luquillo LTER Program 4: Understanding Change in the Ecosystems of Northeastern Puerto Rico
• Contract to Conduct Laboratory and in situ Experiments on Brine Shrimp
• Dissertation Research: Community Level Response to Global Change: The Effect of Temperature on the
Relative Importance of Top-down and Bottom-up Effect

MOLLY DUMAN SCHEEL
• Analysis of axon guidance gene function during vector mosquito development

JEFFREY FEDER
• Genomics of Diapause and Chemoreception in the Apple Maggot Fly
• IGERT: Global Linkage of Biology, Environment, and Society (GLOBES)
• Collaborative Research: Diapause Energetics in the Apple Maggot Rhagoletis Pormonella
• The Biogeography of Sympatric Speciation in Rhagoletis
• Collaborative Research: Host Race Formation among Southern Hawthorn-Infesting Rhagoletis pomonella

JESSICA HELLMANN
• Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Assisted Migration
• Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on Animal Distributions: The Importance of Local Adaptation and Species Traits
• Genomic Research on Terrestrial Insects and Aquatic Microorganisms as Indicators of Global Change
• Assisted migration: evaluating a new strategy for species' conservation

HOPE HOLLOCHER
• Leakey Foundation. Balinese macaques: A model of human evolution in a pathogenic environment
• Dissertation Improvement Grant: Examination of Expression Profile Differences in Candidate Loci
Underlying Female Hybrid Sterility in Drosophila

DAVID LODGE
• Developing and Applying a Real-time Generic Probe for Detecting Aquatic Invasive Species in Ships’
Ballast
• Aquatic Invasive Species Research: Economic Impact of Ballast Water-Mediate Invasive Species
• Ecological Forecasting
• Risk Assessment and Management of Great Lakes Invasive Species