Co-Investigator at the Univesity of STP
Laboratory Manager
Laboratory Manager
Insectary Manager
Field Entemologist
Dr. João Pinto is Assistant Professor and Head of the Medical Entomology Unit of the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research interests focus on the bioecology and genetics of mosquito vectors of disease with emphasis on Afrotropical malaria vectors. He has over 20 years of experience conducting field work and training actions in Africa. Dr. Pinto will lead field operations on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, participating in field collections and implementing training and capacity building activities.
Dr. Anthony Cornel is a Medical Entomologist and a Professor for the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at University of California, Davis. He received his master’s degree and PhD in South Africa where his studies focused on African arboviruses and their mosquito vectors. His areas of expertise include mosquito cytogenetics, ecology, genomics, systematics, and population biology, with a particular emphasis on field ecology. He has over 30 years of field experience working in Africa and will be leading studies of mosquito ecology at the UCMI field sites.
Dr. Gregory C. Lanzaro is a Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and the founder and chief of the Vector Genetics Laboratory at University of California, Davis. He has over 35 years’ experience in the field of medical entomology, with a focus on vector population genetics. Dr. Lanzaro has extensive field experience in Africa and his role in the UCMI project is to lead the effort in conducting field trials to evaluate the performance of genetically engineered mosquitoes, and to determine their efficacy in eliminating malaria.