Congratulations to Dr. Mark Blackmore, City of Valdosta and Lowndes County Governments West Nile Virus Service Contracts Winner!  Dr. Blackmore directs the collection and identification of mosquitos in the city and county for the purpose of identifying mosquito-borne viruses in the interest of public health.  His principle research interests involve the population biology of mosquitos and their natural parasites and other aspects of vector biology and disease ecology.   

Dr. Mark S. Blackmore, Professor, received his M.S. from Auburn University and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. His principle research interests involve the population biology of mosquitoes and their natural parasites and other aspects of vector biology and disease ecology. Before coming to VSU, Dr. Blackmore was a Fullbright fellow at Uppsala University (Sweden) studying parasitism of snowpool mosquitoes by mermithid nematodes. He was also a Research Associate at the Vector Biology Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, where he examined factors affecting outbreaks of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Michigan, the spread of Aedes albopictus in the Americas and the involvement of the species in recent outbreaks of Dengue in Mexico.