Close-Kin Genetic Methods to Infer Demography and Dispersal Patterns of Mosquitoes

Close-Kin Genetic Methods to Infer Demography and Dispersal Patterns of Mosquitoes

Statistics and Genomics Seminar
Mar 7, 2019, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Professor John Marshall, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Malaria, dengue, Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases continue to pose a major global health burden through much of the world, despite the widespread distribution of insecticide-based tools and antimalarial drugs. Consequently, there is interest in novel strategies to control these diseases, including the release of mosquitoes transfected with Wolbachia and engineered with CRISPR-based gene...