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Sierra Schluep

PhD Student
University of Florida, Florida, United States

United States Navy entomology officer and current PhD Student at the University of Florida, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory. Current research focus is resistance to larvicides in Florida Culex mosquitoes.

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I am an active duty entomology officer serving in the United States Navy, Medical Service Corps; Our goals are aligned to the current Navy Medicine Campaign Orders. These orders outline members’ contribution to sustained health service support in high-intensity combat operations. Protecting the human weapon system is at the core of our job when deployed, developing risk communication and mitigation strategies, providing uniform treatments, and contributing to pest control and public health safety efforts of our warfighters and their families. These goals expand across multiple planes of entomology bridging specialties like urban pest management, ecology, vector control, pest program management, environmental policy, testing and evaluation of products, tools, etc., resistance detection and monitoring, and development of innovative technologies.

My academic research background is focused on underlying mechanisms of insecticide resistance in Aedes and Culex mosquitoes of public health importance. My research goals include understanding baseline levels of resistance in local populations, assessing and developing fieldable tools for detecting resistance, better understanding the causes of resistance to certain active ingredients and applying our detection results to more informed integrative mosquito management techniques.

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