From Pests to Poisons: Basic Science, Epidemiology, and the Policy of Pesticides, Gijs van Seventer Doctoral Seminar Series Kicks Off
Pesticide science has been given the important task of providing human society the food, fiber and public health that it requires in an environmental sound, sustainable and affordable manner. One of the main challenges that we face in obtaining these goals is pesticide resistance.
Join J. Marshall Clark, PhD, Professor and Director, Massachusetts Pesticide Analysis Laboratory, Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as he reviews the major classes of insecticide currently used to control insect vectors of human disease, such as human lice, their modes of action and the means by which insect pest become resistant to these control agents. Using genomic and other molecular approaches, certain enzymes that detoxify insecticides can be identified proactively and used in resistance monitoring. His seminar is titled “Action and Resistance Mechanisms of Insecticides Used to Control Human Lice.”
The seminar will be held on Friday, Sept. 16, 12-1 p.m. in the BUSM Instructional Building, room L210.