Expertise

Our laboratory’s in-depth analysis of mosquito developmental genetics aims to promote the elucidation of tools to target mosquitoes before they are disease-transmitting adults.  Research in our lab, which has primarily focused on analysis of mosquito central and sensory nervous system development, has included the first-ever targeted genetic knockdown studies of mosquito neural development.  In recent years, we have begun a large-scale effort to develop species-specific interfering RNA insecticides, a promising new tool for the biorational control of mosquitoes.

Communities
Human Genetics, Biomedical Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Chicago, 1999
BS, University of Notre Dame, Biological Sciences, 1994
Keywords
mosquitoes insects