Introduction - Jon Wegryn
Hey everyone!
I'm Jon Wegryn, and I am currently working as a RaHP VEC intern at Colorado State University in the Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases. The lab I'm apart of is studying ticks and tick-borne diseases. We're also conducting studies on the relationships of ticks and the understory vegetation they're found on, as wells as the microhabitats they prefer.
On a personal note, I'm a senior at CSU studying Restoration Ecology and will be graduating this fall! I have a great fondness for plants and have a fascination for all of the intricate parts that are important in ecosystems. I'm orginally from Michigan, but really love Fort Collins and its vicinity to all of the natural areas.
Hi Jon! That super cool that you're getting to do tick work, especially since most of us are doing mosquito Stuff. Is your lab looking at all the different tick borne diseases or are you focusing on one? I never really thought about microhabitat and ecosystem relationships when it came to arthropod vectors! I'm interested to hear more about that type of research. I bet being a restoration Ecology major is really helpful with that work.
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