People
Principle Investigator
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Dr. Fritz received her graduate degrees from the Department of Entomology, and Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior at Michigan State University. Her doctoral work focused on development of novel management strategies for African malaria mosquito management. As a post-doc in the Departments of Entomology and Genetics at North Carolina State University, she studied the genomics of insect adaptation to changing agricultural management practices. Today, she uses genomic approaches to better understand the ways in which insect populations evolve in response to human-mediated changes to the natural landscape.
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Senior Lab Members
Joshua Yeroshefsky
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Josh is a Faculty Research Assistant. He is a jack-of-all-trades around the Fritz Lab. He keeps the lab safe and organized, rears and collects insects, coordinates crop plantings with our UMD farms, and participates in a number of experiments.
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Kate Bell, PhD.
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Kate is a post-doc in the Fritz lab. She received her PhD. in 2018 from the Department of Biology at Texas State University under the mentorship of Dr. Chris Nice. She is broadly interested in understanding the evolution of biological novelty, and the genetic architecture of adaptive traits and reproductive isolation. In the Fritz Lab, Kate is studying the genomics of host preference in Culex pipiens.
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Anna Noreuil
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Anna is an M.S. student in the Department of Entomology. She has strong interest in the study of neurobiology, and a love of 6- and 8-legged creatures. Her work in the Fritz Lab focuses on characterizing the extent of behavioral variation with respect to host use in the Culex pipiens complex.
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Arielle Arsenault-Benoit
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Arielle is a PhD. student in the Department of Entomology with a passion for engagement and retention of under-represented groups in STEM. Her academic interests are centered on the ways in which vector ecology and genomics influence disease transmission. In the Fritz Lab, Arielle is studying how features of the urban, suburban, and rural landscape influence gene flow and behavior of Culex vectors of disease.
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Rong Guo
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Rong Guo is a PhD. student in the CBBG Program (Department of Biology).
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Undergraduate Research Assistants
Mervin Keith Cuadera
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Lyra Morina
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Greg Baek
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Lab Alumni
Schyler Nunziata, PhD.
USDA-APHIS Bioinformatic Research Scientist |
