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Medical Entomology Lab
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A medical entomology lab that explores the links between mosquitoes, ticks, and flies and the viruses they carry.
AboutAbout the lab
Protecting human health by studying insects.
The Medical Entomology Lab studies arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, and flies, which are among the public health insects that harm people from a public health standpoint, as well as the viruses these arthropods carry and transmit.
The lab aims to deepen understanding of "insects that people dislike" and to control them well so that daily life improves.
To control infectious diseases, vector control, which means controlling the insects that carry pathogens (vectors), is considered the most effective approach.
As a lab of the Center for Insect Science and New Industry Creation, it conducts research and education in collaboration with the other labs in the center.
Key terms
- Public health insects
- Insects that harm people from a public health standpoint, including venomous insects and insects that transmit diseases
- Vector
- An insect that carries the pathogen of an infectious disease, such as mosquitoes and ticks
- Vector control
- Measures to control the insects that carry pathogens. It is considered the most effective way to control infectious diseases
ResearchResearch themes
This lab aims to elucidate problems related to vector-borne pathogens and to train people with expertise in them. In particular, it focuses on "arthropods and the viruses they carry and transmit," and works on surveys, analysis, and the development of control methods.
*Illustrative imageSearching for viruses in mosquitoes and ticks
While studying the ecology of mosquitoes, ticks, and other arthropods, the lab isolates novel viruses from collected specimens and analyzes how they function. To prepare for unknown infectious diseases, it aims to trace the evolutionary pathways of viruses.
*Illustrative imageSurveying and controlling virus transmission by flies
Focusing on flies, which are thought to carry pathogens such as highly pathogenic avian influenza that cause problems on livestock farms, the lab conducts ecological surveys, studies how viruses are transmitted, and develops control methods.
*Illustrative imageNovel viruses carried by ticks
Ticks can transmit pathogens through blood feeding and carry many novel pathogens, including SFTS virus. The lab searches for novel viruses carried by ticks and analyzes their functions.
MembersFaculty
The Medical Entomology Lab consists of faculty members, academic researchers, technical staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorRyosuke Fujita
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Adult deer tick(cropped)” Photo by Scott Bauer. (USDA ARS) / Public domain (cropped)
- Searching for viruses in mosquitoes and ticks: “Ixodes scapularis P1170302a” xpda / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Surveying and controlling virus transmission by flies: “Musca domestica September 2007-1” Alvesgaspar / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Novel viruses carried by ticks: “Female Ixodes Scapularis Tick (NIH BioArt 269)” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Biological Protection and Management Lab): “APHIS-Moore Air Base in Texas-Plant Protection and Quarantine Science and Technology Insect Management and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (20230621-CDP-APHIS-0277)” USDAgov / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Insect Food Science Lab): “Cricket Shelter Modular Edible Insect Farm IMG” Mary Mark Ockerbloom / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Insect Industry Creation Lab): “CSIRO ScienceImage 11069 Equipment at the NCRIS Reombinant Protein Production Facility” Morgan Brown, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tropical Crop Science and Environment Lab): “Portrait of an ant, profile view” Retro Lenses / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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