Good news – our lab is growing considerably this October! Amy Sharpe will join the lab for her 3rd year undergraduate research […]

We are excited to welcome to the lab Orsolya Folsz and Catherine Whittle, first-year Durham Biosciences students, for their summer projects. Orsolya […]

Exciting news!! We have a competitively-funded PhD vacancy, to study vision in mosquito larvae. The project will be co-supervised by Vivek Nityananda […]

Matthew Wheelwright is joining us today as a Research Assistant. Matthew did hid PhD at Newcastle on evolution of visual mimicry in […]

Our paper is out in Nature about an ion channel named Hodor, that is expressed in Drosophila and mosquito gut: An intestinal […]

Lena returns from the first-ever fieldwork in French Guiana – mossie collections went well!             Previous Next

Resistance of mosquito pupae to desiccation Supervisors: Dr Olena Riabinina and Prof Thomas Schmitt (University of Wuerzburg, Germany) Deadline: Applications accepted all year round Funding: Self-funded students […]

The project will be supervised by Paolo Zuliani from Newcastle University and co-supervised by Lena. The project will focus on cellular and […]

Yasmine Kumordzi, a PhD student from Chemistry in Durham, joins our lab on a part-time basis as a volunteer. Yasmine has a […]

The project will be focussed on live imaging from olfactory receptor neurons and behavioural experiments in larvae of malaria mosquitoes, using the […]