Mabel Taracena PhD

Mabel Laline Taracena is a research scientist, focused on medical entomology. Since 2008 she has been involved in research projects that envision control and eradication of diseases like Malaria, Chagas disease, Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya; focusing on vector control. During her master's and Ph.D. at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she developed research in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States and with the Johns Hopkins University.

After working for the CDC-Foundation and the Open Philanthropy Project, doing research at the CDC to control Anopheles mosquitoes in Africa and Latin America, she joined the Buchon Lab in the Entomology Department at Cornell University. Here, we are developing new methods to study mosquito physiology and working to understand the dynamics involved in tissue homeostasis in mosquito vectors. She is in ongoing collaborations with CDC, JHU, UFRJ, and UVG, all related to vector biology and vector control.