UW Science Now

Hear from UW students about their research on mosquito memories, magnetic particle movement, and how the flu virus evolves.

Mosquitoes rely on cues like carbon dioxide, body heat, body odors, and visual stimuli to detect potential hosts, but what happens when a blood-meal goes wrong? Can they remember a bad experience and adjust their future choices? Other animals, from bees to rats, use past experiences to guide decision-making, but we still don’t fully understand how mosquitoes process and learn from host encounters.

Grace’s research [...]