The Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory is pleased to announce: A workshop on mosquito ecology and evolution. This workshop commemorates the career of our newly retired colleague L. Philip Lounibos, Distinguished Professor at FMEL, University of Florida. The workshop will be held December 8-9, 2017 at UF Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC http://irrec.ifas.ufl.edu/ ; about 30 minutes from FMEL in Vero Beach, Florida). A preliminary schedule of 16 talks on topics related to Phil Lounibos’s research and contributions to ecology and evolutionary biology of mosquitoes can be found here: https://about.illinoisstate.edu/sajulian/Documents/wkshopschedSept.pdf . Questions about the workshop can be directed to Steve Juliano(sajul...@ilstu.edu). Further information about local lodging and workshop events will be posted in the near future on the website listed above. A special issue featuring papers from these talks is planned for Journal of Medical Entomology.
The organizing committee: BW Alto, SA Juliano, M Reiskind, DA Yee