She will travel to Moscow, Idaho, in June for the intensive six-day course to learn about the biology of vectors, disease epidemiology, and host and pathogen dynamics in changing environments and climates. The course is taught by an interdisciplinary faculty from multiple institutions around the world. The program scholarship covers registration, lodging and meals, while her travel expenses to the Mainland are paid for by the Minoru Tamashiro Fund for Entomology scholarship. 

 

Priscilla’s dissertation research examines variation of the microbiome of mosquitoes in Hawai‘i; she also works with Matthew Medeiros of university’s Pacific Biosciences Research Center.