I am a vector ecologist interested in malaria transmission in areas with diverse vector species. I have done extensive field work in Southeast Asia and Africa, collecting malaria mosquitoes from forests and villages to examine their behavoir and biology.
I am now a Staff Scientist in Dominic Kwiatkowski’s Malaria Genetics group. My current work is focused on the population genomics of several malaria vectors in Southeast Asia: An. minimus, An. maculatus, An. barbirostris, and An. dirus to look at the population structure of these mosquitoes in a region where drug-resistant malaria parasites are spreading and insecticide-resistance is increasing. Information about vector population structure and patterns of gene flow will inform malaria control and eradication efforts.
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Long-term investment & capacity building is essential for field work, shuttered borders uncover a much deeper issue
"if they had ensured that they trained local partners on the ground to do the work, then their data collection would have continued"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-of-colonial-science/
Thinking of scaling up reverse genetics in a culturable human malaria parasite to unravel its mysteries? You might find our results useful!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67791-z
Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc to work on my newly funded CAREER grant "Integrating causal evolutionary processes into phylogenetic comparative biology". Lots of different areas of expertise could fulfill this work, so please apply! 1/5 http://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/513696/postdoctoral-associate