春色视频 Professor Co-Edits International Special Issue on Vector鈥揚athogen Interactions and Biodiversity Conservation
Dr. V铆ctor D. Carmona-Galindo, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of La Verne, is co-editing a new international special issue in the open-access journal Conservation (MDPI), in collaboration with his sister, Dr. Anna M. Groat-Carmona, a Fulbright alumna and Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Washington Tacoma.
The special issue, titled 鈥淰ector鈥揚athogen Interactions in a Changing World: Implications for Biodiversity and Conservation鈥�, invites submissions that explore how diseases transmitted by vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, and kissing bugs intersect with biodiversity loss, ecosystem resilience, and public health鈥攑articularly in under-resourced or dynamic regions of the Global South.
鈥淥ur goal is to amplify interdisciplinary, field-based, and underrepresented perspectives in conservation and global health research,鈥� said Dr. Carmona-Galindo, whose Fulbright work in El Salvador focused on entomological surveillance and vector ecology in fragmented tropical forests. 鈥淲e see this special issue as a platform for rising scholars鈥攅specially those in Central America, Africa, and South Asia鈥攚ho are leading research on the frontlines of climate and health challenges.鈥�
The issue welcomes research that:
Investigates vector鈥揾ost鈥損athogen systems in ecological or conservation contexts
Analyzes the effects of land-use change, urbanization, or climate disruption on disease transmission
Applies molecular, field-based, or One Health frameworks
Highlights community-engaged or policy-relevant strategies
Dr. Carmona-Galindo and Dr. Groat-Carmona are offering mentorship opportunities to students and early-career scientists interested in publishing. They have also begun assembling a U.S.鈥揅entral America research network to support a forthcoming five-year grant proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF鈥揑RES), which will expand surveillance efforts on vector-borne diseases and train the next generation of field biologists.
The Conservation special issue is now accepting manuscripts on a rolling basis, with a final deadline of February 2, 2026.
For more information or to connect with the guest editors, please contact Dr. V铆ctor Carmona at vcarmona@laverne.edu.
