Megan Meuti (Nicol)

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Megan Meuti (Nicol)

Assistant Professor

meuti.1@osu.edu

https://u.osu.edu/meutilab/

(614) 688-2829

Office:

232C Howlett Hall

2001 Fyffe Rd, Columbus, OH 43210

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Degrees & Credentials:

Ph.D. Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, 2014

B.S. Entomology, The Ohio State University, 2008

B.S. Microbiology, The Ohio State University, 2008

Research Area(s):

Insect overwintering/diapause

Circadian clock genes

Scholarship of teaching and learning

Interests & Expertise:

Insect molecular physiology

Mosquitoes and other insect disease vectors

Biography:

I graduated from The Ohio State University in 2004 with dual Bachelor's of Science Degrees in Entomology and Microbiology. I then continued my graduate work at OSU, where I worked in Dr. David Denlinger's Insect Molecuar Physiology Lab, earning my PhD in December of 2014. I taught general biology as well as courses on insect biology for science and non-science majors at Kenyon College for one year before returning to OSU as an Assistant Professor of Entomology in 2016.

Graduate Student Mentorship, Major Adviser

2020 – present, Matthew Wolkoff. “Determining the role of the circadian clock and genetic variation on the diapause response in the Northern house mosquito.” Matt joined my lab as a PhD student in August 2020.
2019 – present, Alden Siperstein. “Characterizing seasonal changes in mosquito abundance and uncovering the genetic regulation of biting in Culex mosquitoes.” Alden joined my lab in August 2019 as a Master’s Student.
2018 – present, Lydia Fyie. "The impacts of urbanization on mosquito overwintering responses". Lydia joined my lab as a master’s student and is co-advised by Dr. Mary Gardiner, and officially transitioned a PhD in November, 2020.
2018 – 2021, Caitlin Peffers. "Characterizing the photoperiodic response and circadian clock in the Northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens." Caitlin joined my lab as a Master’s student in the fall of 2018, and graduated with her MS in May 2021.
2017-2018 (transferred) Robin Bautista-Jimenez. "Males matter: determining the role of male mosquitoes on seasonal differences in female reproductive physiology."

Documents:

Meuti_CV_2021.pdf

Works

Recent Scientific Publications (*indicates an undergraduate author; ⁺indicates a graduate author)

Fyie, L.R.⁺, Gardiner, M.M. and Meuti, M.E. 2021. Artificial light at night alters the seasonal responses of biting mosquitoes. Journal of Insect Physiology, p.104194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104194
Huck, D.T.*, Klein, M.S., and Meuti, M.E. 2021. “Determining the effects of nutrition on the reproductive physiology of male mosquitoes.” Journal of Insect Physiology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191021000019
Meuti, M.E., and Harrell, R. 2020. Preparing and injecting embryos of Culex mosquitoes to generate null mutations using CRISPR/Cas9. Journal of Visualized Experiments. Journal of Visualized Experiments: Jove, (163).
Chang, V.* and Meuti, M.E. 2020. Circadian transcription factors differentially regulate features of the adult overwintering diapause in the Northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 121: 103365.
Ragland, G.J., Armbruster, P.A. and Meuti, M.E., 2019. Evolutionary and functional genetics of insect diapause: a call for greater integration. Current opinion in insect science, 36, pp.74-81.
Meuti, M.E. and Short, S.M. 2019. Physiological and environmental factors affecting the composition of the ejaculate in mosquitoes and other insects. Insects. 10:74.
Meuti, M.E., Bautista-Jimenez, R*. and Reynolds, J.A. 2018. Evidence that microRNAs are part of the molecular toolkit regulating adult reproductive diapause in the mosquito, Culex pipiens. PloS one, 13: e0203015.
Fisher, S.W and M.E. Meuti. 2018. Contributions of Entomology to Natural Theology in the late 17th to early 19th Centuries. American Entomologist. 4:242-250
Short, C.A.*, M. E. Meuti, Q. Zhang and D. L. Denlinger. 2016. "Entrainment of eclosion and preliminary ontogeny of circadian clock gene expression in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis." Journal of Insect Physiology, 93: 28-35.

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