LACBA Speaker May 5, 2025 - Carmen Black

Tropilaelaps Mites: Unraveling the Growing Threat and Expanding Knowledge Gaps

Hello! My name is Carmen Black. I am a PhD student in the Samuel Ramsey Lab at CU Boulder (The Boulder Bee Lab). I have a bachelors in Environmental Science with a minor in biology and masters in Entomology and Plant Pathology from the University of Tennessee. In my masters I worked on arthropod diversity studies, arthropod and bat interactions, and tick-borne pathogens. My main interests include parasite ecology, vector biology, and conservation biology. I currently work on Tropilaelaps mite life cycle, life history strategies, and pathogen detection in the Tropilaelaps virome. Please feel free to reach out to me at carmen.black@colorado.edu