Dina Fonseca, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Entomology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Her expertise involves the ecology of mosquitoes, mosquito control and infectious diseases. She recently was the recipient of the Charles and Johanna Busch Biomedical Research Grant from Rutgers University. She is featured on Rutgers Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics webpage. To read her personal story about how she became a scientist visit http://sciencewomen.rutgers.edu/profiles/index.php?q=myStory&id=152. Fonseca received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.