The rockefeller university

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Other Seminars

Speaker(s)

Mariangela Bonizzoni, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, University of Pavia, Italy, Genetic adaptations from domestication in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

Speaker bio(s)

Mariangela Bonizzoni is currently Professor of Zoology in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Pavia in Italy. She received her PhD from both the University of Pavia and the Universite’ de Paris XI through a joint Italian- French PhD program in 2004. In 2005, she moved to University of California, Irvine to study insecticide resistance in malaria vectors with Prof. Guiyun Yan and arboviral vector competence in Aedes mosquitoes with Prof. Anthony A. James. She joined the Department of Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Pavia in 2015. She is interested in understanding the evolutionary adaptations in mosquito genomes that foster their invasion success and vector competence. Her ongoing studies have been and are supported by the European Research Council, the Human Frontier Science Program and the Italian ministry of university and research and aim at exploring the interplay between genome architecture and immunity and the impacts of temperature on mosquito fitness and physiology.

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