Although Colorado is home to many types of mosquitos, Culex tarsalis mosquitos, which are particularly adept at spreading West Nile virus, thrive in the state, said Greg Ebel, director of the Colorado State University Center for Vector Borne Infectious Diseases.
Greg Ebel said he’s seeing similarly low case numbers this year among the birds that his lab tests for the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program.
MIP professor Greg Ebel receives the Oliver P. Pennock Distinguished Service Award for meritorious and outstanding achievement over a five-year period.
CSU’s One Health Institute recently announced the selection of two CSU faculty One Health pilot projects and four students for the first Student One Health awards.
Greg Ebel discusses how his lab’s history with arbovirus surveillance poised the team to respond to the early COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ebel Lab is part of the newly-awarded Verena (Viral Emergence Research Initiative) Biology Integration Institute, intent to discover more about the science of the host-virus network.
NPR highlights xenosurveillance efforts in Guatemala, where blood samples retrieved from the abdomen of mosquitos are analyzed by the Ebel lab.
Greg Ebel discusses WNV evolution and xenosurveillance for the American Society for Microbiology’s “Meet the Microbiologist” podcast.
Scientists across Colorado are surveilling West Nile virus transmission to understand its transmission by mosquitoes to animals and humans.