Megan Fritz

Associate Professor @UMDEntomology. STEM Educator. Fan of #opensource #openscience. Aspiring programmer. Scrabble competitor. Bird-lover.

[Armed Forces Pest Management Board @afpmb]

🧬 Groundbreaking pest control: Scientists create "toxic male" insects that reduce female populations faster than traditional methods. Could help fight disease-carrying bugs like mosquitoes!

https://t.co/XYzDjDLILB

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

The Fritz Lab is hiring!

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Congratulations to Dr. Kate Taylor and all of our colleagues who made this work possible - publication just out in BMC Genomics! @UMDEntomology @umiacs
https://t.co/pFpbx9rC0s

[CBCB_UMD @CBCB_UMD]

Supported by a @USDA grant, two @CBCB_UMD researchers are studying the corn earworm's resistance to non-chemical pesticides. Their findings could improve pest management and help sustain crop protection while preventing a tragedy of the commons. Read More: https://t.co/b6107SC26v

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

The Fritz Lab is hiring! Looking for a postdoc project lead to investigate the role of structural variants in evolution on short time scales. Please circulate!

[UMIACS @umiacs]

See how @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz (@MosquitoDoc) is using computational resources in @umiacs to identify genomic changes in the corn earworm—considered the costliest crop pest in North America—that make it more resistant to pest management practices.

https://t.co/ynwmBpPY7L

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

~10,000 mosquitoes later, @BenoitArielle's newest paper is out! Congrats, Arielle! 🦟https://t.co/0egerCoxP5 @UMDEntomology @UMDPublicHealth @UMDResearch

[Becky Trout Fryxell @DrVectorBio]

FINALLY sharing our #AsianLonghornedTick success story - one of our #Tennessee #cowcalf producers made decisions that reduced ticks on their farm. We know it's just one farm, but we hope w/ more farms (& $ to work on farms) we can replicate it at others.
https://t.co/zx5hHB9P4v

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Thanks to @EntsocAmerica for letting me join in on the fun! 🐛🐞🪰🦟🐝

[UMD Entomology @UMDEntomology]

This summer Dr. Megan Fritz, Assoc Prof @UofMaryland, flexed her sci-comms skills at the Capitol, joining fellow @EntsocAmerica researchers to advocate for continued and increased federal investments in life-science research. @MosquitoDoc https://t.co/2PlOZkmBDS

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Another summer, another fantastic research experience with the @UMD_AGNR SOARE program

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Congratulations @BenoitArielle - so many wonderful accomplishments in these past 5 years and so well-deserved! @UMDEntomology @UMDscience

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Jane Quackenbush, a long-time Fritz Lab student researcher defended her Biological Sciences undergraduate thesis with high honors today. 🎉Congratulations Jane! @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Congratulations to Dr. Arielle Arsenault-Benoit @BenoitArielle, who successfully defended her PhD. dissertation this month! @UMDEntomology 🥳

[UMD Entomology @UMDEntomology]

📣We’re recruiting for the following position: Professor and Chair of @umdentomology. Please share!🪰🔬📚

[UMD Entomology @UMDEntomology]

🎉Mid-Atlantic Mosquito Control Association honors #GradTerp @BenoitArielle w/ the Bruce Harrison Outstanding Student Award. Congrats Arielle on this recognition of your research into the community composition & landscape genomics of #mosquitoes across a heterogeneous landscape.

[UMD Science @UMDscience]

How can #PestManagement and technology support agricultural productivity and #FoodSecurity in the face of #ClimateChange?

Find out at @aaas' Riley Memorial Lecture, where @UMDEntomology's Megan Fritz will be speaking on a panel! Register now: https://t.co/Z5VNJURAoE

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

The Fritz and Hamby labs @UMDEntomology are seeking a jointly held postdoc to develop and test genomic monitoring approaches for insecticide resistance management. Please retweet. @Arthropod_i5K @NCStateGenetics @GESCenterNCSU

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

I have a new review out: https://t.co/BWEnz2hFYh

Thanks to David Mota-Sanchez @MSUEntomology for contributing data from their insecticide resistance database!

[UMD Entomology @UMDEntomology]

Congrats @karinburghardt, recipient of @EntsocAmerica's ECP Research Award! Karin is a🤘⭐️researcher whose work helps determine activities that allow humans to share spaces w/ a variety of native flora and fauna and maintain vital ecosystem functions.
https://t.co/rJNoNSFHBz

[Megan Fritz @MosquitoDoc]

Congrats to Jane Quackenbush for winning our Department's Ernest N. Cory Undergraduate Scholarship! 🎉Jane has made important intellectual contributions to our lab's research on the genetics of Bt resistance. https://t.co/jVIgefsUcF @UMDEntomology @umdbiosci