AIM-COST Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) - New Call Open!

STSM Hosts
Completed STSM Hosting Institutions

Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are exchange visits in a host organization located in a different country than the country of affiliation by a Researcher or Innovator. STSMs aim at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering international collabor

The AIM COST ROADMAP

Since 2018, Aedes Invasive Mosquito (AIM) COST Action (Project ID: CA17108) has promoted European networking and collaboration between the researchers, public health professional, and the public so as to increase harmonisation, preparedness, and capacity for surveillance and control of AIM vector species.

Online course “Mosquitoes, Phlebotomine sand flies and ticks monitoring: traps and capture techniques

We have the pleasure to inform you that the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) has organized an online course “Mosquitoes, Phlebotomine sand flies and ticks monitoring: traps and capture techniques” which is now available.

This course focuses on the main techniques for monitoring ticks, mosquitoes, and phlebotomine sand flies, and aims to provide knowledge on how to plan sampling and which tools to use.

 

Publication: Increased biting rate and decreased Wolbachia density in irradiated Aedes mosquitoes

Please check out this exciting new publication by Riccardo Moretti and his team recently published in Parasites & Vectors...

Moretti, R., Lampazzi, E., Damiani, C. et al. Increased biting rate and decreased Wolbachia density in irradiated Aedes mosquitoes. Parasites Vectors 15, 67 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05188-9