Megan Fritz

🧬 Groundbreaking pest control: Scientists create "toxic male" insects that reduce female populations faster than traditional methods. Could help fight disease-carrying bugs like mosquitoes! nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Fritz Lab is hiring!

Congratulations to Dr. Kate Taylor and all of our colleagues who made this work possible - publication just out in BMC Genomics! @UMDEntomology @umiacs bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Supported by a @USDA grant, two @CBCB_UMD researchers are studying the corn earworm's resistance to non-chemical pesticides. Their findings could improve pest management and help sustain crop protection while preventing a tragedy of the commons. Read More: go.umd.edu/1sw7

The Fritz Lab is hiring! Looking for a postdoc project lead to investigate the role of structural variants in evolution on short time scales. Please circulate!

See how @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz (@MosquitoDoc) is using computational resources in @umiacs to identify genomic changes in the corn earworm—considered the costliest crop pest in North America—that make it more resistant to pest management practices. go.umd.edu/Fritz

~10,000 mosquitoes later, @BenoitArielle's newest paper is out! Congrats, Arielle! 🦟besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/26… @UMDEntomology @UMDPublicHealth @UMDResearch

FINALLY sharing our #AsianLonghornedTick success story - one of our #Tennessee #cowcalf producers made decisions that reduced ticks on their farm. We know it's just one farm, but we hope w/ more farms (& $ to work on farms) we can replicate it at others. academic.oup.com/jme/advance-ar…

Thanks to @EntsocAmerica for letting me join in on the fun! 🐛🐞🪰🦟🐝

Another summer, another fantastic research experience with the @UMD_AGNR SOARE program

Congratulations @BenoitArielle - so many wonderful accomplishments in these past 5 years and so well-deserved! @UMDEntomology @UMDscience

Jane Quackenbush, a long-time Fritz Lab student researcher defended her Biological Sciences undergraduate thesis with high honors today. 🎉Congratulations Jane! @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci

Congratulations to Dr. Arielle Arsenault-Benoit @BenoitArielle, who successfully defended her PhD. dissertation this month! @UMDEntomology 🥳

📣We’re recruiting for the following position: Professor and Chair of @umdentomology. Please share!🪰🔬📚

🎉Mid-Atlantic Mosquito Control Association honors #GradTerp @BenoitArielle w/ the Bruce Harrison Outstanding Student Award. Congrats Arielle on this recognition of your research into the community composition & landscape genomics of #mosquitoes across a heterogeneous landscape.

How can #PestManagement and technology support agricultural productivity and #FoodSecurity in the face of #ClimateChange? Find out at @aaas' Riley Memorial Lecture, where @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz will be speaking on a panel! Register now: aaas.org/riley-lecture

The Fritz and Hamby labs @UMDEntomology are seeking a jointly held postdoc to develop and test genomic monitoring approaches for insecticide resistance management. Please retweet. @Arthropod_i5K @NCStateGenetics @GESCenterNCSU

I have a new review out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev… Thanks to David Mota-Sanchez @MSUEntomology for contributing data from their insecticide resistance database!

Congrats @karinburghardt, recipient of @EntsocAmerica's ECP Research Award! Karin is a🤘⭐️researcher whose work helps determine activities that allow humans to share spaces w/ a variety of native flora and fauna and maintain vital ecosystem functions. go.umd.edu/cAE

Congrats to Jane Quackenbush for winning our Department's Ernest N. Cory Undergraduate Scholarship! 🎉Jane has made important intellectual contributions to our lab's research on the genetics of Bt resistance. entomology.umd.edu/news/fall-2022… @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci