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 Emily Hornett Bioinformatician
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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 Kayla Barnes Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor
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Dr Poppy Pescod Post-doctoral research associate
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Dr David Weetman Reader
Areas of interest: Insecticide resistance, population genetics and molecular ecology, vector control. -
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 -
Agnes Matope Statistician/Mathematical Biologist
Areas of interest: Medical statistics, Longitudinal/multi-level/clustered data analysis, Survival data analysis -
Dr Laura Valerio Laboratory Technician
Areas of interest: mosquito ecology and behaviour and in their control strategies. -
Sophie Dunkley Programme Officer
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Jonathan Thornton Insectary Techician
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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. -
Luciene Salas Jennings Programme administrator
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James Court Research Technician
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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. -
Dr Corrado Minetti Research Assistant
Areas of interest: malaria, parasite epidemiology and molecular epidemiology, diagnostics, host-parasite-vector interactions, neglected tropical diseases. -
Jessica Carson Research Assistant
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Dr John D Howard Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Dr Jennifer Lord Lecturer in Vector-Borne Disease Ecology
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Laura Brettell Postdoctoral research associate in vector biology
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Robert Leyland Technician
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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 -
Professor Tony Nolan Chair in Functional Genetics
Areas of interest: Genetic Control of Vectors; Insect Transgenesis; Gene Drive; Functional Genetics; Directed Evolution; Insecticide Resistance -
Dr Shivanand Hegde Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Professor Philip McCall Everett-Dutton Professor of Medical Entomology
Areas of interest: Malaria, dengue, Zika, vector biology and behaviour, vector control -
Alison Reynolds Technical Programme Manager
Insecticide Resistance; Monitoring and Evaluation; Vector Control -
Dr Eve Worrall Reader in Health Economics
Areas of Interest: Health Economics, Malaria, Vector Control, Health Policy, Health Systems -
Dr Eva Heinz Senior Lecturer in Disease Genomics
Areas of interest: Pathogen Genome Evolution, Antimicrobial Resistance, Protein Family Evolution -
Leanne Crowley Programme Coordinator (Quality Control and Training)
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Kyle Walker LITE HPLC Technician
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Joshua Longbottom Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Professor Hilary Ranson Professor of Medical Entomology , Dean of Research Culture and Integrity
Areas of Interest: Control of mosquito borne diseases, insecticide resistance, entomological surveillance in disease control -
Dr Gareth J. Lycett Lecturer
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Dr Efundem Agboraw Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Areas of interest: Economics, Health Economics, Economic Growth and development, Health Insurance, Finance -
Arianna Braccioni Programme Manager
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Sara Elg Research Technician
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Rowan Jones-Brown LITE Technician
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Dr Jack Hearn Post-Doctoral research Associate
Areas of interest: Population genetics and genomics, epigenetics, phylogeography, bioinformatics -
Rosheen Mthawanji Wellcome Trust Masters in Public health and Tropical medicine fellow
Areas of interest: Insecticide Resistance, Vector behaviour, vector fitness and control -
Jessica Purcell PhD Student
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Dr Pat Pignatelli Senior technician
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Dr Inaki Tirados 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. -
Owino Barrack Omondi Wellcome Trust fellowship student
Areas of interest: Leishmaniasis and vector borne NTDs, Vector control -
Giorgio Praulins Research Technician
Areas of interest: Establishing diagnostic doses for new classes of chemistry. -
Dr Federica Guglielmo Senior Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Medical anthropology; gender, kinship, household, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, mental health. -
Kirsten Duda Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Malaria, vector control, serious gaming, innovative tools, education -
George Parsons Research assistant
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Lizzie Bridget Tchongwe-Divala Wellcome Trust Masters in Public health and Tropical medicine fellow
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Marion Morris Lab Technician
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Professor Martin James Donnelly Head of Vector Biology Department
Areas of interest: Evolutionary genetics and genomics of insect vectors, the evolution and epidemiological impact of insecticide resistance. -
Sanjay Curtis Nagi Postdoctoral researcher
Areas of interest: Mosquito vectors, Insecticide resistance, short non coding RNA, Novel vector control tools, Volatile pyrethroids, Ivermectin -
Leanne Galvin Technician
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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 -
Emily Rippon Research Technician
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Dr Grant Hughes Reader and Wolfson Fellow
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Dr Aitor Casas-Sanchez Lecturer
Areas of interest: Glycobiology, Virology, Parasitology, Molecular Biology, Coronavirus, Arbovirus, Kinetoplastids, Vector-borne diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases. -
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)... -
Kennedy Kind Zembere MSc Student
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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. -
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,... -
Pauline Ambrose Research Technician
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Lauren Marchant Research Assistant
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Dr Michelle Stanton Honorary Research Fellow
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Dr Hanafy Mahmoud Ismail Lecturer
Area of interest: Chemical Biology, Infection Biology, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). -
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 -
Dr Audrey Lenhart Honorary Appointment
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Professor Mike Lehane Emeritus Chair in Molecular Entomology and Parasitology
Areas of interest: Medical and Veterinary Entomology -
Beatrice Egid MRC PhD Student
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Dr Diepreye Ayabina Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Areas of interest: Mathematical modelling, competition, diversity, coinfection, mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Dr Jeff Jones Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Individual based modelling, collective behaviour, collective movement, mosquito sensorimotor behaviour. -
Isabel Saldanha Research Technician & PhD Student
Areas of interest: African trypanosomiasis, emerging zoonotic infections, one health, zoonoses at the wildlife-livestock-human interface -
Beth Poulton PhD Student
Areas of interest: Genetic Modification, CRISPR-CAS9, Larvicide Resistance, Automated Technology. -
Dr Julie-Anne Akiko Tangena Post Doctoral Research Associate
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Dr Sylvester Coleman Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Lisa Hitchins Laboratory Technician
Areas of interest: Molecular Biology, Vector Control, Leishmaniasis, Insecticides -
George Evans Research Technician
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Dr Andy South Research Associate
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Dr Lisa Reimer Reader
Areas of interest: Vector-borne disease transmission, mosquito-parasite interactions, vector ecology, behaviour and control -
Dr Adriana Adolfi Business Development Manager
Areas of interest: Malaria mosquito vectors (Anopheles) and parasites (Plasmodium) -
Amy Guy Study Director
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Dr Ian Patterson Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Patricia Mcintosh Logistics 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. -
Dr Eric Lucas Lecturer
Areas of interest: Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics, insecticide resistance. -
Daniel McDermott PhD Student - MRC Doctoral Training Programme in Global Health
Areas of interest:Vector Control, Sampling strategies, Malaria, Vector monitoring -
Dr Luc Salako Djogbenou
Areas of interest: Host-pathogen interactions, behaviour and insecticide resistance of Anopheles gambiae -
Lori Flood Research Technician/LITE Coordinator
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Katherine Gleave Research Assistant
Areas of interest: Mosquito Behaviour, Vector Control, Insecticide Resistance. -
Enyia Anderson Research Technician
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Denise Wellings Study Director
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Jess Williams Study Director
Areas of Interest: Mosquito insecticide resistance, Pesticide Bioassays, Cuticular resistance mechanisms -
Rudra Pratap Singh Programme Manager (India)
Areas of interest: Translational Medicine, Operational Research, Visceral leishmaniasis, Insecticides, Vector Control -
Edward Thomsen Vector Biologist and Programme Manager
Areas of interest: vector biology, vector control, information technology, operational research, technical assistance, insecticide resistance -
John Essandoh PhD Student
Areas of interest: Insecticide resistance and landscape genetics in Anopheles gambiae -
Dr Anne Wilson Lecturer in Epidemiology
Areas of interest: Vector control trials, evidence into policy, multi-sectoral vector control, inter-sectoral action -
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 -
Sean Tomlinson PhD Student
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Jennie Gibson Trainee Study Director
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Sharon Mullane Programme Officer
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Folasade Oladepo Senior Research Technician
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Helen Irving Lab Technician
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Christida Estu Wastika Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Dr Andrew Hope Postdoctoral Research Associate
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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. -
Jessica Lingley Laboratory Manager
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Lucy Wust LITE Technician
Areas of interest: Mosquito control. Integrated Vector Management. Science Communication and Public Engagement. -
Nickolaos Argiropoulos Research Technician
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Anna Trett Research Assistant
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Dr Christopher Jones Senior Lecturer
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Noureen Shahid Programme Officer (QA and GLP)
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Dr Mary-Jo Hoare Research Technician