Contact Information
Prairie Research Institute
Forbes Natural History Building
1816 S. Oak Street, MC-652
Champaign, IL 61820
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Research Scientist, Medical Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
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Recent Publications
Ciloglu, A., Mackay, A. J., Cara, C., Kim, C. H., Marguccio, A., Yan, J., & Stone, C. M. (2026). Heterogeneous distribution of avian malaria parasites across mosquito species: disproportionate involvement of Culex restuans in the Midwestern United States. Malaria Journal, 25(1), Article 245. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-026-05925-w
Noel, K. R., Kallembach, C., Iyer, M., Cáceres, C. E., & Stone, C. M. (2026). Genotype by environmental interactions shape insecticide resistance phenotypes in Culex pipiens and Culex restuans. Heredity, 135(5), 313-322. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-026-00833-w
Phillips, V., Flenniken, J. M., Mick, L., Chesser, L., Alfaro, E., Kim, C. H., Gaff, H., Allan, B. F., Stone, C. M., & Tuten, H. C. (2026). Surveillance for Metastriate Ticks and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses in Southern Illinois. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 115(2), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.25-0674
Trivellone, V., Mackay, A. J., Stone, C. M., & Dietrich, C. H. (2026). Leveraging Existing Biodiversity and Zoonosis Monitoring Infrastructure for Integrative Plant Pathogen Surveillance in Natural Ecosystems. Insects, 17(4), Article 383. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects17040383
Mackay, A. J., Yan, J., Kim, C. H., Cara, C., Chesser, L., Alfaro, E., Avara, M., Ward, M., Magle, S., Murray, M., & Stone, C. M. (2025). Infection and host-feeding patterns of West Nile virus vectors varies by urban greenspace composition. Science of the Total Environment, 1009, Article 181098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.181098