Dr Gareth Lycett

Biography

Gareth Lycett was born in Mpraeso, Ghana before moving to England and going to school in Birmingham. He was trained in biochemistry at Surrey University (BSc) and completed his PhD with a focus on molecular genetics at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). Gareth then took post-doctoral and fellowship positions at the Institute of Parasitology, University of Rome, the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He then took up a fellowship position back at LSTM, moving to tenure track and subsequently a faculty position in 2011.

Research interests

Gareth is a vector molecular biologist whose main interests are focused on functional genetic analysis of mosquitoes in relation to insecticide resistance and malaria transmission. Topics he has explored include cellular and molecular analysis of mosquito/plasmodium interactions, developing tools for conditional expression in transgenic anophelines, tissue specific regulation of gene expression in mosquitoes, and functional genetic analysis of insecticide resistance.

His team have developed routine analysis of gene function in anopheles through piggyBac transformation, PhiC31 mediated cassette exchange, Gal4/UAS, enhancer trapping and CRISPR/Cas9 methodology.

Teaching