Bio

2026-27 GES Graduate Certificate Fellow

Jessica is a third-year PhD student in the Entomology program at NC State, where she studies the evolution and spatial ecology of insecticide resistance in mosquito populations. Driven by a passion for One Health research, Jessica is particularly interested in human-environment relationships and how they shape ecological and public health outcomes. Her research is informed by her interdisciplinary training as a Genetics and Genomics Scholar (2024–25) and Global One Health Fellow (2025–26) at NC State. Before beginning her PhD, she worked as a GIS analyst supporting natural resource management projects, where she helped inform decision-making that balanced conservation goals with competing land use and management priorities. Jessica received a BA in Integrative Biology with a minor in Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MA in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Publications

• Emergence and spatial distribution of knockdown resistance in a suburban population of Aedes albopictus , Parasites & Vectors (2026)
• Fine-scale landscape genomics show asymmetric patterns of gene flow for the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
• Socioeconomic predictors of knockdown resistance in the globally invasive tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus , Royal Society Open Science (2026)
• Ecological drivers of evolution of swine influenza in the United States: a review , Emerging Microbes & Infections (2025)
• Rapid spread of knockdown resistance allele frequencies in a suburban population of Aedes albopictus , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)
• Socioeconomic predictors of knockdown resistance in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)