Area of research
Insect Science · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Research interest
Research interests include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.
Construction and Modeling of a Coculture Microplate for Real-Time Measurement of Microbial Interactions
Intracellular Density of <i>Wolbachia</i> Is Mediated by Host Autophagy and the Bacterial Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Gene <i>cifB</i> in a Cell Type-Dependent Manner in Drosophila melanogaster
Large Enriched Fragment Targeted Sequencing (LEFT-SEQ) Applied to Capture of Wolbachia Genomes
Dual Insect specific virus infection limits Arbovirus replication in Aedes mosquito cells
<i>Wolbachia w</i> Stri Blocks Zika Virus Growth at Two Independent Stages of Viral Replication
The Gut Commensal Microbiome of Drosophila melanogaster Is Modified by the Endosymbiont <i>Wolbachia</i>
Variable Inhibition of Zika Virus Replication by Different Wolbachia Strains in Mosquito Cell Cultures
Evolutionarily conserved <i>Wolbachia</i> -encoded factors control pattern of stem-cell niche tropism in <i>Drosophila</i> ovaries and favor infection