FMEL Extension Office
For further information, contact Dr. Eva Buckner at eva.buckner@ufl.edu or (772) 226-6606.
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As the medical entomology UF/IFAS Extension State Specialist, I serve as the primary contact for stakeholders, including federal and state agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Florida Department of Health, mosquito control and public health professionals, county Extension faculty, and the public. I am responsible for providing expert consultation and training on medically important arthropods, mosquito-borne diseases (e.g., dengue, chikungunya, West Nile, Zika), integrated mosquito management, mosquito control product efficacy, and insecticide resistance testing and management. I remain in close contact with the mosquito control programs throughout Florida and assist them with their needs.
My synergistic extension and research programs endeavor to improve integrated mosquito management (IMM) in Florida and beyond. The two major aims of my extension program are increasing the implementation of IMM techniques by Florida residents and improving the capacity of mosquito control programs to perform IMM, predominantly focusing on how to conduct insecticide testing and how to use resistance testing data to inform management decisions. My research program focuses on issues central to applied mosquito management, particularly the insecticide resistance of Florida populations of vectors of pathogens affecting human health. A central theme of my research is investigating the underlying mechanisms responsible for insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Additionally, my program provides critical empirical evaluations of traditional and novel mosquito control techniques and the most effective ways to incorporate multiple mosquito control techniques within IMM programs.
- View Dr. Eva Buckner's lab spotlight seminar
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