Professor Peter Armbruster
Mosquito evolution and adaptation fascinates Professor Peter Armbruster.
In a room filled exclusively with white buckets quietly teeming with mosquitoes, Dr. Peter Armbruster works with a plastic tube dangling from his mouth. He approaches a bucket labeled “New Jersey.” Untying an improvised fabric opening, he inserts the tube into the bucket and deftly sucks several mosquitoes into the tip of the tube, which has a cloth barrier preventing his ingestion of the insects. Dr. Ambruster proceeds to knock the bugs unconscious with a few shots of carbon dioxide from a large canister that stands by the door, then lays the immobile, live mosquitoes under a microscope.
Read more about Dr. Armbruster's work, as well as his innovative teaching methods with the "I-Clicker," at Georgetown College Research News...
