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Title: Assistant Professor
Unit: Florida Medical Entomology Lab
Country: United States



I study natural populations of arthropod vectors using population genomic approaches. Dispersal has particular importance to innovative pest management strategies such as ‘Auto-Dissemination’ or genetically engineered mosquitoes. I am also interested in population divergence and genetic variations associated with epidemiologically-important phenotypes such as insecticide resistance and pathogen resistance.

These aspects are critical in translating basic research of ecology and evolution to applied vector control efforts including the use of genetically-altered mosquitoes. Using a combination of genomics and bioinformatics tools, I also specialized in developing multi-detection assays for mosquito species and hybrid identification, pathogen detection, chromosome inversion genotyping, and blood source detection for various insect species groups.

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