Bethany McGregor, PhD

USDA-ARS

Dr. Bethany McGregor is a research entomologist with the USDA-ARS in the Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit in Manhattan, KS. Dr. McGregor received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2012 and a Master of Science from the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2015. In 2019, she received a PhD in Entomology from the University of Florida, where her research focused on Culicoides ecology on Florida deer farms and implications for the transmission of viruses impacting deer. From 2019-2020, Dr. McGregor was an ORISE postdoctoral fellow with the CDC, where she pursued several projects, including a study investigating the vector competence of mosquito and midge species for Oropouche virus. Since joining ARS in 2020, Dr. McGregor’s research has focused on the ecology of Culicoides biting midges, with current foci in larval habitat characterization, host and sugar feeding ecology, virus-vector interactions, and field pathogen surveillance.