The UC Davis sand fly research team is led by medical entomologist and principal investigator Gregory Lanzaro (seated, left), director of the UC Mosquito Research Program and the Center for Vectorborne Diseases. At right (seated) is collaborator and veterinary pathologist Stephen Barthold, director of the Center for Comparative Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine; and (back from left) graduate students Melody Malpass and Heather Malka, Lanzaro Lab; post-doctoral fellow Emir Hodzic of the Center for Comparative Medicine; and assistant specialist Claudio Meneses, Lanzaro Lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)