Vector Biology Faculty

	Francisco J. Alarcon-Chaidez, Ph.D. The pharmacology of blood feeding arthropod saliva, the immunology of the blood feeding arthropod-host interface, and factors in the saliva of hematophagous arthropods that facilitate transmission of infectious diseases.
	Stephen Higgs, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.E.S. Interactions between mosquito vectors, the viruses they transmit, and the vertebrate host.
	Sanjeev K. Sahni, Ph.D. The obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to Rickettsia species are etiological agents of the spotted fever and typhus groups (SFG and TG) of rickettsial diseases in almost all geographic locations worldwide.
	Saravanan Thangamani, Ph.D. My research interests are focused on to elucidate the Pathogen-Vector(ticks and mosquitoes)-Host Interface.
	Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D. Basic research on evolution and pathogenesis of arthropod-borne viruses, virus – mosquito, virus – host interactions and vaccine development.
	Scott C. Weaver, Ph.D. Pathogenesis, epidemiology, and evolution of arboviruses; arbovirus-vector interactions.
	Stephen Wikel, Ph.D. Emerging and re-emerging diseases transmitted by blood feeding arthropods are significant global public health problems. A major focus of my research is characterization of the complex cellular and molecular immunology of the tick-hostpathogen interface.