Kristi Miley, Ph.D.
University of South Florida’s Kristi Miley, Ph.D., carries a mosquito-collecting aspirator vacuum while treading through a collection site in Citrus County. She spearheaded a new study that revealed the winter haunts of Culiseta melanura mosquitoes, providing a possible target and timing for insecticide treatments. Miley led the study during her graduate-student work and earned her doctorate in December 2020. (Photo courtesy of Thomas Unnasch, Ph.D.)