The Department of Vector Biology has a research portfolio spanning from studies on the functional genomics, behaviour and ecology of disease vectors, to clinical trials, implementation research and the development of tools for monitoring and evaluation of disease transmission. Our aim is to contribute to the control or elimination of vector borne diseases afflicting the world’s poorest populations.
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Staff
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Dr Jeff Jones Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Individual based modelling, collective behaviour, collective movement, mosquito sensorimotor behaviour. -
Arianna Braccioni Programme Manager
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Lori Flood Research Technician/LITE Coordinator
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Sophie Dunkley Programme Officer
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Dr Adriana Adolfi Business Development Manager
Areas of interest: Malaria mosquito vectors (Anopheles) and parasites (Plasmodium) -
Helen Irving Lab Technician
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Dr Mark Paine Reader
Areas of interest: Molecular understanding of detoxification mechanisms in insect vectors and development of new reagents to overcome insecticide resistance. -
Jess Williams Study Director
Areas of Interest: Mosquito insecticide resistance, Pesticide Bioassays, Cuticular resistance mechanisms -
Dr Jack Hearn Post-Doctoral research Associate
Areas of interest: Population genetics and genomics, epigenetics, phylogeography, bioinformatics -
Leanne Crowley Programme Coordinator (Quality Control and Training)
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Anna Trett Research Assistant
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Lauren Marchant Research Assistant
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Professor Hilary Ranson Professor of Medical Entomology, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research Culture and Integrity
Areas of Interest: Control of mosquito borne diseases, insecticide resistance, entomological surveillance in disease control -
Dr Christopher Jones Senior Lecturer
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George Evans Research Technician
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Dr Mary-Jo Hoare Research Technician
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James Court Research Technician
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Dr Julie-Anne Akiko Tangena Post Doctoral Research Associate
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Dr Sylvester Coleman Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Dr Eric Lucas Lecturer
Areas of interest: Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics, insecticide resistance. -
Lucy Wust LITE Technician
Areas of interest: Mosquito control. Integrated Vector Management. Science Communication and Public Engagement. -
Professor Philip McCall Everett-Dutton Professor of Medical Entomology
Areas of interest: Malaria, dengue, Zika, vector biology and behaviour, vector control -
Patricia Mcintosh Logistics Technician
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Leanne Galvin Technician
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Dr John D Howard Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Professor Tony Nolan Chair in Functional Genetics
Areas of interest: Genetic Control of Vectors; Insect Transgenesis; Gene Drive; Functional Genetics; Directed Evolution; Insecticide Resistance -
Edward Thomsen Vector Biologist and Programme Manager
Areas of interest: vector biology, vector control, information technology, operational research, technical assistance, insecticide resistance -
Professor Stephen Torr Chair in Neglected Tropical Diseases
Areas of interest: Behaviour, ecology and control of vectors, particularly tsetse flies and mosquitoes; Human African Trypanosomiasis; Malaria; Animal African Trypanosomiasis; integrated vector... -
Dr Luca Facchinelli Programme Manager/Vector Biologist
Areas of interest: Mosquito ecology, lab to field transition of transgenic mosquito lines, mosquito resting and mating behaviour -
Laura Brettell Postdoctoral research associate in vector biology
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Dr Andy South Research Associate
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Dr Audrey Lenhart Honorary Appointment
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Agnes Matope Statistician/Mathematical Biologist
Areas of interest: Medical statistics, Longitudinal/multi-level/clustered data analysis, Survival data analysis -
Dr Eva Heinz Senior Lecturer in Disease Genomics
Areas of interest: Pathogen Genome Evolution, Antimicrobial Resistance, Protein Family Evolution -
Dr Eve Worrall Reader in Health Economics
Areas of Interest: Health Economics, Malaria, Vector Control, Health Policy, Health Systems -
Joshua Longbottom Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Noureen Shahid Programme Officer (QA and GLP)
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Beatrice Egid MRC PhD Student
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Dr Shivanand Hegde Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Lisa Hitchins Laboratory Technician
Areas of interest: Molecular Biology, Vector Control, Leishmaniasis, Insecticides -
Kyle Walker LITE HPLC Technician
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Enyia Anderson Research Technician
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Dr Jennifer Lord Lecturer in Vector-Borne Disease Ecology
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Beth Poulton PhD Student
Areas of interest: Genetic Modification, CRISPR-CAS9, Larvicide Resistance, Automated Technology. -
Kirsten Duda Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Malaria, vector control, serious gaming, innovative tools, education -
Dr Rosemary Susan Lees Principal Research Associate
Areas of interest: Development and management of insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of disease, Bioassay development and validation, Mosquito behaviour -
Daniel McDermott PhD Student - MRC Doctoral Training Programme in Global Health
Areas of interest:Vector Control, Sampling strategies, Malaria, Vector monitoring -
Dr Pat Pignatelli Senior technician
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Rowan Jones-Brown LITE Technician
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Rosheen Mthawanji Wellcome Trust Masters in Public health and Tropical medicine fellow
Areas of interest: Insecticide Resistance, Vector behaviour, vector fitness and control -
Dr Gareth J. Lycett Lecturer
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Dr Kayla Barnes Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor
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Katherine Gleave Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Mosquito Behaviour, Vector Control, Insecticide Resistance. -
Isabel Saldanha Research Technician & PhD Student
Areas of interest: African trypanosomiasis, emerging zoonotic infections, one health, zoonoses at the wildlife-livestock-human interface -
Alison Reynolds Technical Programme Manager
Insecticide Resistance; Monitoring and Evaluation; Vector Control -
Dr Hanafy Mahmoud Ismail Lecturer in Vector Biology
Area of interest: Chemical Biology, Infection Biology, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). -
Jessica Carson Research Assistant
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George Parsons Research assistant
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Owino Barrack Omondi Wellcome Trust fellowship student
Areas of interest: Leishmaniasis and vector borne NTDs, Vector control -
Dr Suleiman Sadi Ibrahim Wellcome Trust Training Fellow in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Areas of Interest: Elucidation of molecular basis of metabolic resistance in field populations of Anopheles funestus across Africa. -
Dr El Hadji Amadou Niang Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Areas of interest: Insect vector ecology, population genetics and genomics, evolution and applied consequences of insecticide resistance and the control of mosquito vectors of human disease,... -
Robert Leyland Technician
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Amy Guy Study Director
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Denise Wellings Study Director
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Dr Diepreye Ayabina Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Areas of interest: Mathematical modelling, competition, diversity, coinfection, mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Dr Anne Wilson Lecturer in Epidemiology
Areas of interest: Vector control trials, evidence into policy, multi-sectoral vector control, inter-sectoral action -
Dr Mike Coleman Reader
Areas of interest: Monitoring and evaluation of vector control programmes; operational and translational research to reducing morbidity and mortality in humans. -
Jennie Gibson Trainee Study Director
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Marion Morris Lab Technician
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Professor Martin James Donnelly Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
Areas of interest: Evolutionary genetics and genomics of insect vectors, the evolution and epidemiological impact of insecticide resistance. -
Dr Efundem Agboraw Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Areas of interest: Economics, Health Economics, Economic Growth and development, Health Insurance, Finance -
Dr Richard Selby Post Doctoral Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Sleeping Sickness, Tsetse, Control, Ecology, Epidemiology, T. b. gambiense, T. b. rhodesiense, AAT, Vector, Parasite -
Dr Michelle Stanton Honorary Research Fellow
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Dr Louise Ford Test Facility Manager
My interests are focused on product discovery and development for tropical diseases, particularly neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and malaria. -
Dr Aitor Casas-Sanchez Lecturer
Areas of interest: Glycobiology, Virology, Parasitology, Molecular Biology, Coronavirus, Arbovirus, Kinetoplastids, Vector-borne diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases. -
John Essandoh PhD Student
Areas of interest: Insecticide resistance and landscape genetics in Anopheles gambiae -
Dr Lucas Cunningham Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Lucas’ primary areas of interest are in the application of molecular methods to improve the diagnostics and surveillance of NTDs with a One Health approach. -
Christida Estu Wastika Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Dr Linta Grigoraki Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow
Areas of interest: Molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance, cuticular resistance, cuticle biosynthesis, Anopheles gambiae -
Jessica Lingley Laboratory Manager
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Dr Lisa Reimer Reader
Areas of interest: Vector-borne disease transmission, mosquito-parasite interactions, vector ecology, behaviour and control -
Sara Elg Research Technician
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Giorgio Praulins Research Technician
Areas of interest: Establishing diagnostic doses for new classes of chemistry. -
Dr Ian Patterson Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Dr Andrew Hope Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Dr Amy Lynd Post Doctoral Research Associate
Areas of interest: Functional genetic analysis, behaviour, insecticide resistance and control of Anopheles mosquitoes -
Jessica Purcell PhD Student
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Dr Poppy Pescod Post-doctoral research associate
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Dr Federica Guglielmo Senior Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Medical anthropology; gender, kinship, household, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, mental health. -
Luciene Salas Jennings Senior Programme Administrator
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Sharon Mullane Programme Officer
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Folasade Oladepo Senior Research Technician
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Annabel Murphy Research Assistant
Areas of Interest: Accelerating new vector control tools - Appropriate tests for the evaluation of behavioural, delayed and sub-lethal effects of insecticides on mosquitoes. -
Professor Mike Lehane Emeritus Chair in Molecular Entomology and Parasitology
Areas of interest: Medical and Veterinary Entomology -
Kennedy Kind Zembere MSc Student
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Dr Grant Hughes Reader and Wolfson Fellow
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Rudra Pratap Singh Programme Manager (India)
Areas of interest: Translational Medicine, Operational Research, Visceral leishmaniasis, Insecticides, Vector Control -
Nickolaos Argiropoulos Research Technician
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Sean Tomlinson PhD Student
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Pauline Ambrose Research Technician
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Sanjay Curtis Nagi Postdoctoral researcher
Areas of interest: Mosquito vectors, Insecticide resistance, short non coding RNA, Novel vector control tools, Volatile pyrethroids, Ivermectin -
Dr Emily Hornett Bioinformatician
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Jonathan Thornton Insectary Techician
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Dr Corrado Minetti Research Assistant
Areas of interest: malaria, parasite epidemiology and molecular epidemiology, diagnostics, host-parasite-vector interactions, neglected tropical diseases. -
Dr Luc Salako Djogbenou
Areas of interest: Host-pathogen interactions, behaviour and insecticide resistance of Anopheles gambiae -
Emily Rippon Research Technician
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Dr Inaki Tirados Research Fellow
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Dr David Weetman Reader
Areas of interest: Insecticide resistance, population genetics and molecular ecology, vector control. -
Lizzie Bridget Tchongwe-Divala Wellcome Trust Masters in Public health and Tropical medicine fellow
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Professor Charles Wondji Professor of Genetics/ Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences
Areas of interest: Mosquito biology, insecticide resistance, mosquito genomics, quantitative genetics (genetic and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL)... -
Dr Laura Valerio Laboratory Technician
Areas of interest: mosquito ecology and behaviour and in their control strategies.