Nora Besansky
Department of Biological Sciences
Gillen Professor of Biological Sciences
- Anopheles mosquitoes
- Mosquito genome
- Malaria vectors
- Epidemiology and population biology
- Genetics and genomics
- Entomology and vector-borne diseases
Besansky in the News

Associated Press
Video on social media doesn’t show genetically modified mosquitoes
March 21, 2023
Nora Besansky, a biology professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in mosquitoes, notes mosquitoes only have one pair of wings while the insect in the video has two pairs.