Charles Apperson
Bio
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Vector biology: basic and applied research on the ecology, behavior and/or control of arthropods of public health importance, such as mosquitoes and ticks.
- Biology and ecology of the container-inhabiting mosquitoes Aedes albopictus, Aedes aegypti,and Ochlerotatus triseriatus.
- Arthropod-host interactions: blood feeding habits and pathogen transmission.
- Environmental and behavioral factors affecting mosquito oviposition: chemical ecology of mosquito oviposition attractants and stimulants.
- Microbial ecology of mosquito habitats, focusing on the oviposition response of gravid Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus to the species structure of bacterial communities.
- Ecoepidemiology of mosquito-transmitted diseases, such as La Crosse encephalitis.
- Ecoepidemiology of tick-borne diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis and Lyme disease.
Education
B.A. Humboldt State College
M.S. University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Area(s) of Expertise
Public Health Entomology and Vector Biology
Publications
- Orientia, Rickettsia, and the microbiome in rodent attached chiggers in North Carolina, USA , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Detection of Orientia spp. Bacteria in Field-Collected Free-Living Eutrombicula Chigger Mites, United States , EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2023)
- Mosquito Blood Feeding Prevention Using an Extra-Low DC Voltage Charged Cloth , INSECTS (2023)
- Analyses of Bloodmeal Hosts and Prevalence of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast Tick Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae) From a Reconstructed Piedmont Prairie Ecosystem, North Carolina , JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY (2022)
- Bacterial Isolates Derived from Nest Soil Affect the Attraction and Digging Behavior of Workers of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren , INSECTS (2022)
- Rickettsia felis and Other Rickettsia Species in Chigger Mites Collected from Wild Rodents in North Carolina, USA , MICROORGANISMS (2022)
- Colonization by the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta, Modifies Soil Bacterial Communities , MICROBIAL ECOLOGY (2021)
- Mosquito-Textile Physics: A Mathematical Roadmap to Insecticide-Free, Bite-Proof Clothing for Everyday Life , Insects (2021)
- New Mosquitocide Derived From Volcanic Rock , JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY (2020)
- Oviposition-Site Selection of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) Sand Flies: Attraction to Bacterial Isolates From an Attractive Rearing Medium , JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY (2020)