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