{"id":40482,"date":"2026-05-15T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=40482"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:24:09","slug":"meg-younger","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/meg-younger\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Younger, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Younger is <span>an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and an affiliate of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Systems Neuroscience, and the Neurophotonics Center. <\/span>Her current research in the Younger lab studies olfaction in mosquitoes. The primary focus of the lab is to learn about how mosquitoes detect and encode human odor and how this drives their search for a human to bite. Mosquito-borne diseases affect millions of people worldwide and claim more than half a million lives each year, and understanding how mosquitoes detect and encode human odor would provide a major inroad to preventing mosquito biting behavior and disease transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22836,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/40482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/40482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40558,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/40482\/revisions\/40558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}