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Vosshall, Ph.D. Robin Chemers Neustein Professor Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Genetics and Genomics Neurosciences and Behavior VOSSHALL LAB RESEARCH PROGRAM (updated February 24, 2024) The Vosshall Laboratory is interested in the molecular neurobiology of mosquito host-seeking behavior. Female mosquitoes require a blood meal to complete egg development. In carrying out this innate behavior, mosquitoes spread dangerous infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Humans attract mosquitoes via multiple sensory cues including emitted body odor, heat, and carbon dioxide in the breath. The mosquito perceives differences in these cues, both between and within species, to determine which animal or human to target for blood-feeding. We have developed CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing in the Aedes aegypti mosquito with the goal of understanding how sensory cues are integrated by the female mosquito to lead to host-seeking behavior. Some of the questions we are currently addressing are: Why are some people more attractive to mosquitoes than others? How do insect repellents work? How are multiple sensory cues integrated in the mosquito brain to elicit innate behaviors? How do female mosquitoes select a suitable body of water to lay their eggs? The long-term goal of all of our work is to understand how behaviors emerge from the integration of sensory input with internal physiological states. More about the Vosshall Lab People Projects Publications News Neuroscience Retreats Reagent Requests & Protocols Multimedia Contact Us Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior HHMI – The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue Box 63 New York, NY 10065 Leslie Vosshall Email Leslie Phone: 212-327-7236 Do your postdoc here The Vosshall Lab is always interested in applications from current PhD students looking for postdoctoral training opportunities. If you find our work interesting and wish to be considered for a position, please email a complete CV with a complete bibliography, including any bioRxiv pre-prints. If you have unpublished manuscripts not currently available on bioRxiv, please email a PDF. We will also need the names and full contact details of three scientists who can provide letters of recommendation. All materials should be emailed to Leslie Vosshall . Train here as a PhD student The Vosshall Lab welcomes potential graduate students interested in carrying out thesis work in the lab. Please consider applying to The David Rockefeller Graduate Program . Once you are invited to interview, Leslie will be happy to speak to you about our research program and potential rotation projects. We love summer students! Each summer, the Vosshall Lab hosts students at the high school and undergraduate level via Rockefeller summer programs. If you are a college student, apply to the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program . If you are a high school student and will turn 16 by the time you enter the program, please apply to Summer Science Research Program . Not currently hiring - but check back for open positions The Vosshall lab is currently fully staffed. News from the Vosshall Lab October 18, 2022 Why some people are mosquito magnets The female mosquito will hunt down any human, but some of us get bitten far more than others. The answer why may be hidden in our skin. August 18, 2022 Unlocking the mystery of how mosquitoes smell humans Through questioning their assumptions about how mosquitoes sense and interpret odors, scientists may have discovered why efforts to throw the vectors of dengue and Zika off the human scent have not succeeded. October 18, 2021 Three Rockefeller researchers are elected to the National Academy of Medicine Mary E. Hatten, Charles M. Rice, and Leslie B. Vosshall are three of 100 new members elected to the academy today. 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