Andrea Egizi

Dr. Egizi is a Research Scientist with the Monmouth County Mosquito Control Division, where she runs a tick-borne disease laboratory. She is interested in a broad diversity of topics related to vector biology, including population genetics, community ecology, invasion biology, and vector-borne disease ecology. Past projects have used molecular tools to describe mosquito host feeding patterns and their potential role in disease dynamics, as well as combined genetic analysis with landscape variables like elevation and road networks to study the expansion of invasive mosquitoes. She is currently working on several projects with colleagues in Monmouth County and at Rutgers aimed at better characterizing the local landscape of tick-borne disease ecology, including the surveillance, pathogen prevalence, genotyping, and host preferences of medically important ticks across habitats and communities.

January 2019