17 February 2022
During the first network meeting Francis Schaffner, consultant and researcher in Medical and Veterinary Entomology, University of Zurich, gave a presentation entitled 'Sampling mosquitoes and biting midges: how and why?' and Finan Gallagher (HSE) gave a brief overview of ongoing monitoring work of mosquitoes in Ireland. The project team introduced itself and the NetVec Ireland project.
June 2022
Field visits to demonstrate how to set up traps and collect and store samples
4 July 2022
Dr Marion England: Culicoides surveillance: Stories from the field
Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist at The Pirbright Institute
Dr Padraig Flattery: Forecasting Bluetongue disease using dispersion modelling
Meteorologist at the Climate Services, Research and Applications Division in Met Éireann
11 October 2022
Aidan O’Hanlon, Natural History Museum: Overview of the biology of midges and mosquitoes, identification of native and exotic species
Michela Bertola, Public Health Department, Legnaro, Italy: The Mosquito Alert App
Angela Valcarcel Olmeda, UCD: Trapping techniques and sites, updates on the midge and mosquito project
Elsie Isiye, SETU: Principles of conventional, real-time PCR, updates on the midge and mosquito project
Thomas Curran, SETU: Principles of NGS for species identification
20 January 2023
Angela Valcarcel Olmeda, UCD: Maldi-Tof Basics
Elsie Isiye, SETU: DNA Barcoding Basics
Dr Lorna Culverwell, Viral Zoonoses Research Unit University of Helsinki
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13 April 2023
Dr Thomas Balenghien, medical entomologist at Cirad (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development) with a focus on the ecology of dipteran vectors and lead researcher of the Culicoides group within the EFSA/ECDC European network for medical and veterinary entomology (VectorNet).
Dr Liam Lysaght, Strategic Director of the Biodiversity Data Centre and Head of Delegation for Ireland to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (https://biodiversityireland.ie/staff/dr-liam-lysaght/).
4 August 2023
Speaker: Ross Cuthbert, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast ((opens in a new window)https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ross-cuthbert-2) with a research interest in global changes and their impacts on ecosystems, economies and health.
Title: 'Mosquito impacts, biocontrol, and behaviour'
10 November 2023
Research project update
7 March 2024
Speaker: Bernadette Doyle, Superintending Veterinary Inspector
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Title: An overview of Bluetongue Virus - mitigations and implications
8 May 2024
UCD Citizen Science-Community in Practice: How citizen scientists can contribute
24 July 2024
Arbovirus ecology and genetic diversity in blood-feeding arthropods in arid ecosystems, Kenya
Speaker: Dr. Edwin Ogola, Postdoc Researcher at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Hamilton, United States.
