Nora Besansky

Gillen Professor of Biological Sciences

Department of Biological Sciences

Office
Biological Sciences, 100 Galvin Life Science Center/Freimann Life Science Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5645
Phone
574-631-9321
Email
nbesansk@nd.edu
Website
Blog

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

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.