Vector Genetics Lab

	Melody Schmid Graduate Student Department of Entomology University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 Phone: (530) 752-7333 E-mail: mpmalpass@ucdavis.edu Research Interests Education Professional Experience

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Entomology. I am focusing my studies on vector – host – parasite interactions with my research on the transmission of the parasite Leishmania chagasi by the sand fly vector Lutzomyia longipalpis. I am interested in how Lu. longipalpis salivary proteins influence the pathology of an L. chagasi infection in the vertebrate host by modulating cytokine expression of macrophages at the bite site.

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis
Master of Science in Immunology
July 2006

The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Bachelor of Arts in Biology
May 2000

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Post Graduate Researcher in the Lanzaro Lab, UC Davis, CA, 2004

Biology Paraprofessional at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO,  2002 – 2004

Entomological Field Technician, USGS – Biological Resource Division, HI 2003

Guide, Kayak Instructor for Small World Adventures, Napo, Ecuador 1999 – 2002

Preparing bait to be helicopter dropped on Haleakala's invasive Argentine Ant population		Searching for Argentine Ants in the lava of Haleakala Crater, Maui

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