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Pest insects do enormous damage to human health (transmitting diseases such as dengue fever and malaria) and to agriculture (damaging crops or livestock). Controlling pest species while minimising the adverse consequences to the environment is a major challenge for sustainable agricultural production and for public health. Novel genetics-based methods are being developed to mitigate the harm done by insects. My research uses mathematical modelling to analyse the many interesting issues raised by these new biological approaches.
I have focussed mainly on population suppression strategies, where the aim is to reduce the number of pest insects using genetic constructs, particularly a self-limiting system called RIDL (Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal), which was developed originally in the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology and now at Oxitec Ltd, a biotechnology spin-out. This strategy is based on the Sterile Insect Technique, an area-wide method of biological pest control in which large numbers of sterile pest insects are released; these mate with wild insects, but no offspring result, so the population’s reproductive potential is reduced and numbers are suppressed. Genetic engineering has enabled improvements and variations and I develop theoretical frameworks and mathematical models to investigate the effect of applying these techniques.
I have focussed mainly on population suppression strategies, where the aim is to reduce the number of pest insects using genetic constructs, particularly a self-limiting system called RIDL (Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal), which was developed originally in the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology and now at Oxitec Ltd, a biotechnology spin-out. This strategy is based on the Sterile Insect Technique, an area-wide method of biological pest control in which large numbers of sterile pest insects are released; these mate with wild insects, but no offspring result, so the population’s reproductive potential is reduced and numbers are suppressed. Genetic engineering has enabled improvements and variations and I develop theoretical frameworks and mathematical models to investigate the effect of applying these techniques.
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2016 International Congress of Entomology (2016)
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World Health Organization eBooks (2014)
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