Seminario ICVV. The mosquito ear: from fundamental neuroscience to disease control

I am interested in studying fundamental aspects of the sensory biology of disease-transmitting mosquitoes than can be exploited to develop better mosquito control tools. I recently joined the Animal Health Research Centre (CISA), at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

I did my PhD at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) with Inmaculada Canal and Laura Torroja investigating the development of sensory organs in Drosophila. I then joined the lab of Martin Goepfert at the University of Goettingen (Germany) as a postdoc to study the auditory system of diseasetransmitting mosquitoes. I also worked as a research fellow in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology under the supervision of Walter Haas at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany to implement a molecular surveillance system for tuberculosis control. In 2017, I joined the lab of Joerg Albert at University College London (UCL) as a Marie Curie fellow to investigate the biophysics of the malaria mosquito ear. In 2019, I was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and became a group leader at UCL.