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
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
Noel, K. R., Kim, C. H., & Stone, C. M. (2025). Mechanistic evidence of widespread insecticide resistance among the Illinois West nile virus vectors Culex pipiens and Culex restuans. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 22806. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05531-x