Lark Coffey

Associate Professor

  • Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology -- School of Veterinary Medicine

Research in Lark Coffey's lab focuses on several central themes with a common goal of reducing the burden of disease caused by arthropod-borne (arbo) viruses. These include: understanding viral genetic factors that promote arbovirus outbreaks, predicting viral mutations that enhance arbovirus transmissibility by mosquitoes and disease in humans or animals, increasing safety of candidate live-attenuated vaccines, and uncovering determinants of mosquito-virus interactions as a means to reduce virus transmission by mosquitoes.