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SUMMARY:Modelling genetic control of insect pests - Dr Nina Alphey from De
 partment of Zoology\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Dr Ciara Dangerfield
DESCRIPTION:Pest insects do enormous damage to human health (transmitting 
 diseases such as dengue fever) and to agriculture (through damaging crops 
 or livestock).  Nina's interdisciplinary research programme explores ecolo
 gical and genetic aspects of novel methods to control insect populations. 
  She has focussed primarily on transgenic variants of the sterile insect t
 echnique\, an area-wide method of biological pest control that reduces pes
 t populations by releasing mass-reared sterile insects which compete for m
 ates with wild insects.\n\nMathematical modelling predicts that a variant 
 with female-specific lethality could also slow or reverse the spread of re
 sistance to other control methods. 
LOCATION:Tom ap Rees\, Department of Plant Sciences
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