Associate Professor
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Dr. Kading obtained her B.S. in Entomology/Wildlife Conservation from the University of Delaware, M.S. in Entomology from the University of Arkansas, and PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work at Johns Hopkins focused on the transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum by Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes in southern Zambia, including examination of seasonal entomologic inoculation rates, mosquito blood feeding behavior, and population genetics. Between 2007 and 2014, at the CDC Division of Vector-borne Diseases Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Dr. Kading led studies on mosquito blood feeding behavior and West Nile virus (WNV) ecology in Colorado and Guatemala, the effects of mosquito co-infection with West Nile virus and insect-only flaviviruses on the transmission of WNV, and the viral determinants of Rift Valley fever virus transmission by mosquitoes. Dr. Kading has been a faculty member at Colorado State University since 2016. Her research program currently has active projects on Rift Valley fever virus, viral ecology of bats in Uganda, arbovirus surveillance in Myanmar, and developing novel methods for tracking mosquito dispersal.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
4:06pm – 4:20pm