LAtest news
An Aedes aegypti female blood-feeding from a human arm (Photo credit: Alex Wild).
Lab Retreat
The lab (including pups!) spent a weekend in the Hudson, New York for science (and non-science) fun!
23 March, 2025
Lunar New Year Celebration!
The lab celebrated the year of the snake with a dumpling-making (and eating) party!
January 28, 2025
Field collecting in Lee County, FL
Tom, Monica, and Lauren spent a week collecting isolated and cohabiting populations of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Florida!
August 2, 2024
Lizzie and Chloe Present at 88th CSHL Symposium on Quantitative Biology (Brain Body Physiology)
Lots of traffic at both posters and Chloe gave a lightning talk!
June 3, 2024
Takuya’s Going Away Screen Printing Party!
Takuya has concluded his JSPS fellowship in the Duvall lab - we celebrated with a screen printing party (custom-designed by Takuya himself!)
May 28, 2024
Graduation Party at the Baylander!
Congratulations to graduating seniors Anthony and Laura!
May 8, 2024
Congratulations Monica!
Monica is awarded an NSF GRFP Award!
April 18, 2024
2024 Three Minute Thesis Competition
Dong is selected to compete in Columbia’s “3 minute thesis” competition!
March 7, 2024
2024 Quadpod Meeting
Lena presenting her thesis work at the first (annual?) Quadpod meeting of the Barnhart, Canman, Duvall, and Shirasu-Hiza labs (not shown: team-building mosquito larval relay).
March 6, 2024
2023 BIO Department Retreat!
In Hae, Dong, and Lena gave great presentations and posters, plus trivia was a great success!
October 24, 2023
Congratulations Lizzie and Lena!
Lena and Lizzie both earn Honorable Mentions on their NSF GRFP proposals!
April 11, 2023
Welcome and “going away” party!
The tie dye party has become an annual tradition! We welcomed new PhD students Lizzie Bradford and Lena Kogan and celebrated Monica’s transition from Research Assistant to incoming PhD student in the Biological Sciences program.
July 7, 2022
Congratulations Monica!
Monica earns an Honorable Mention for her NSF GRFP (And is officially an incoming first year PhD student)!
April 14, 2022
Six Biology PhD students honored by the 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
Tie-dye party to celebrate the completion of our insectary!
Our permanent insectary is finally finished and we celebrated with a party to tie-dye our new lab swag! (Thanks to the National Library of Medicine for letting us use this terrifying mosquito image!)
May 6, 2021
Laura is named a 2020 beckman young investigator
This award offers $600,000 in funding to the Duvall Lab over four years to study mosquito reproductive behavior.
https://www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/beckman-foundation-announces-2020-beckman-young-investigator-awardees/
Laura awarded 2019 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Investigators in life sciences
Duvall, azizi, and lee awarded 2019 tri-i breakout prizes for young investigators
https://www.rockefeller.edu/events-and-lectures/42978-tri-i-breakout-prize-symposium/RAGE
Scientists' 'Craziest Experiment Possible' Actually Works On Mosquitoes (NPR)
Check out this article about our work!
New findings could make mosquitoes more satisfied—and safer to be around (RU Newswire)
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/24955-new-findings-make-mosquitoes-satisfied-safer-around/
A New Way to Keep Mosquitoes From Biting (the atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/how-to-stop-mosquito-bites/582190/
Human Diet Drugs Kill Mosquitoes' Appetite, Too (Scientific American)
Chttps://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/human-diet-drugs-kill-mosquitoes-appetite-too/
Mosquito sex protein could provide key to controlling disease (RU newswire)
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/20946-mosquito-sex-protein-provide-key-controlling-disease/