Angie began her career in Vector control as a seasonal
laboratory assistant with the District back 2005. From
2006-2012 she was a vector ecologist in the SMCMVCD
laboratory. She was the vector ecologist for Santa Clara
County, performing all in-house PCR testing for Lyme disease in
ticks and WNV in birds and mosquitoes for three years, then moved
up to supervise all aspects of the Marin/Sonoma MVCD laboratory
as the Scientific Programs Manager in 2015. In 2017,
she left that position to come back to the
District.
Arielle received her B.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University
of California, Davis, and her M.S. in Microbiology from San
Francisco State University. Her graduate research focused
on tick-borne diseases throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with
a focus on Lyme disease. Prior to working as a Vector Ecologist,
Arielle received a National Science Foundation grant to work
within the San Mateo County Vector Control Laboratory, where she
trained with District staff and developed molecular protocols for
disease surveillance.
Tara Roth has a B.S. in Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity from
the University of California Davis, an M.S. in Ecology and
Systematics from San Francisco State University, and a PhD from
the University of California Davis in Integrative Pathobiology
with a designated emphasis in the Biology of Vector Borne
Diseases. Before joining the San Mateo Vector Control District
her research focused on the ecology and epidemiology of tularemia
in the California Central Valley.
Theresa has been with the District since 2008. She works
with the laboratory on surveillance of invasive Aedes
aegypti mosquitoes, West Nile Virus surveillance, mosquito
population monitoring and identification, general arthropod
identification, surveillance of tick-borne diseases, and data
analysis.
