Prof. Scott O’Neill
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Scott O’Neill is the project leader and coordinates the different aspects of the project to ensure the outlined objectives are achieved. Prof. O’Neill’s research team is one of the leading Wolbachia research groups in the world. They will work on transferring life-shortening Wolbachia into the Aedes aegypti mosquito and characterise the life-shortening phenotype in this mosquito. Researchers will then characterise the molecular basis of the life-shortening effect and continue work on novel approaches to determine mosquito age in the field.
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Prof. Ary Hoffmann
Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Ary Hoffmann is a world-leading researcher in Wolbachia genetics and the dynamics of Wolbachia invasion and spread through host populations. His group will conduct experimental and theoretical work to understand how life-shortening Wolbachia may invade natural mosquito
populations.
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Dr. Scott Ritchie
Tropical Population Health Unit, Queensland Health and James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
Scott Ritchie coordinates dengue control efforts in northern Queensland, Australia. His research group has established field sites in the city of Cairns for mosquito age-grading projects and studies on urban dengue transmission. Dr Ritchie collaborates extensively with the other Australia researchers on this project and his group will be heavily involved in coordinating the field cage trials.
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Dr Darlene McNaughton
James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
Darlene has undertaken long-term anthropological research in Aotearoa-New Zealand 1997, Northern and Southern India 1999-2001 and in Western Cape York Peninsula 2005-2006. Her research interests include the nature of subalternity and the cultural underpinnings of bio-medicine and public health discourses on obesity. Her research profile includes several international publications and conference papers in the field of medical anthropology. Darlene is exploring local understandings of dengue fever in North Queensland and the social and ethical issues surrounding the implementation of new vector control strategies.
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Dr Peter Ryan and Prof. Brian Kay
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
The Queensland Institute of Medical Research Mosquito Control lab has extensive research experience with the ecology and control of a range of mosquito disease vectors throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. Prof. Kay’s pioneering work on biological control of dengue vectors in Vietnam provides important infrastructure needed to conduct field studies in the region. Dr Ryan and Prof. Kay’s research group will collaborate with Australian and Vietnamese researchers conducting research into population age structure and dengue transmission.
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