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20 Jun 2022: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. People.

9 Jun 2022: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Our lab studies the evolution and genetics of hosts and parasites, mostly using insects as a model system. Which genes cause variation in susceptibility to infection and why is this variation maintained in populations? How

6 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Osama Brosh. Research Interests. I am a current PhD candidate studying the genetics of immunity. My research focuses on the effect of transposable element insertions on virus resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Education

7 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Francis Jiggins. Employment. 2017- present Professor of Evolutionary Genetics. 2012-2017 Reader of Evolutionary Genetics. 2009-present - Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. 2009-2014 Royal Society

7 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Alex Leitao. Research Interests. I have started my research career by studying the development of immune cells in Drosophila melanogaster. During my PhD, supervised by Elio Sucena, I showed that functional immune cells can

7 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Arunkumar Ramesh. Research Interests. I am interested in the genetic architecture of variability in resistance to infection within a population. Why susceptible individuals persist in a population when resistance to

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Elves Duarte. Research Interests. I am interested in studying the interaction between insects and microorganisms, namely between mosquitoes and the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. The ultimate goal is to establish

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dominique Ding. Research Interests. I am a PhD candidate in the group. My current project has been on the evolution of Drosophila immunity through changes in gene expression. We hope to unveil the roles of regulatory

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Gaspar Bruner. Research Interests. I am broadly interested in symbiotic interactions, partially in tropical insects. My main interest is to understand how mutualist or parasitic partners affect the behavior, ecology and

31 Jan 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Andrew Quinn. Research Interests. Drew works on the role of changes in gene expression due to selection on cis-regulatory elements in the evolution of immune system. This involves using high-throughput RNA sequencing to

6 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Cambridge Evolutionary Genetics. This is a group of labs in Cambridge working on evolutionary genetics that holds a journal club every fortnight and an annual symposium.. Collaborators. Designed and updated: September 1,

31 Jan 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Lucia Tagliaferri. As a Research Laboratory Technician I provide diverse technical and maintenance support to the lab studying the evolution and genetics of hosts and parasites, mostly using insects as a model system. Before

11 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Research. Genetic variation in susceptibility to parasites. In most organisms there is a lot of genetic variation in the susceptibility of individuals to parasitism. Yet this appears paradoxical. Being resistant is clearly

27 Jun 2018: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Joel Alves. Research Interests. My research interests revolve around population genetics and evolutionary biology in general. I am currently investigating the genetic aspects of host-parasite interactions using as a model

9 Jun 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Elizabeth Duxbury. Research Interests. I am broadly interested in host-pathogen coevolution and life history evolution. My current research focuses on the intriguing paradox of why genetic variation in host susceptibility to

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Kim Kang Wook. Research Interests. Research interest. The evolution of insect immunity genes. Bioinformatics. Molecular ecology. Education. 2003 PgDip in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis, The University of Edinburgh

22 Feb 2016: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Samuel H. Lewis. Research Interests. Genetic conflicts often occur between a host and a parasite, and can drive dynamic and rapid evolution of both the host and the parasite. I investigate how these conflicts evolve at the

12 Sep 2012: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Jewelna Osei-Poku. Research Interests. Jewelna is interested in understanding the genetic basis of vector-pathogen interactions particularly that which underlie the competence of mosquitoes to transmit diseases. Currently

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Laura Jane Michie. Research Interests. LJ's Ph.D. is a study of colour polymorphism in three species of ladybird, including the invasive harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis. As ladybirds are aposematic (brightly coloured

8 Apr 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. John McGonigle. Research Interests. I have an interest in host-parasite evolution, insect immunity and parasitology. My current research focuses on investigating the genetic basis of host resistance to parasites. My work

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Carlos Luque. Research Interests. I am involved in the design and optimization of gene editing tools in Drosophila melanogaster, such as CRISPR/Cas9. We are harnessing the power of fly genetics to improve these techniques,

9 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Sophie Smith. Research Interests. Sophie provides support to research in the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory in Madingley. She is primarily working on the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Education and Employment. BSc. MSc. Designed

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Mike Magwire. Research Interests. Mike is interested in the genetic architecture of viral resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Currently he is mapping several viral resistance genes in D. melanogaster using deficiency

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Claire Webster. Employment. 2007-present Research Technician, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh. 2005 – 2006 Honours Project Student then Research Technician Chris Jiggins Group, Institute of

3 Dec 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Hannah Schweyen. Research Interests. Hannah is performing a genome-wide association study to identify polymorphisms in Drorosphila melanogaster that affect susceptibility to DAffSV. DAffSV is a sigma virus that naturally

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Emma Louise Rhule. Research Interests. The aim of Emma's PhD is to assess the potential of the sexually-transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, as a classical biological control agent of the invasive ladybird, Harmonia

28 Nov 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Chuan Cao. Research Interests. The presence of evolutionary effects that pathogens and hosts have on one another provides an excellent model to study co-evolution. Among the limited knowledge we have now, virus-Drosophila

20 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Suzan Ok. Research Interests. My primary research interests include microbiology and host-symbiont dynamics. For my project, I am investigating the coevolutionary relationship between the fruit fly Drosophila and the

1 Nov 2014: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Daniel Fabian. Research Interests. I am interested in the genetic basis of traits and the selective mechanisms causing adaptation, particularly in the context of immunity and life history. To study these topics I am using

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Anastasia Fytrou. Research Interests. Natasa is interested in the evolution of host-parasite interactions, using Drosophila and parasitic wasps as a model system to investigate the genetic determination of resistance. Her

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Lena Wilfert. Research Interests. Lenas research focuses on the evolution of host-parasite interactions. She is particularly interested in the maintenance of genetic variation and recombination in natural populations, two

9 Apr 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Fergal Waldron. Research Interests. It is of major biological interest to uncover the extent to which genetic variation influences host susceptibility and pathogen virulence and also the degree to which evolution can create

12 Apr 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Punita Juneja. Research Interests. I am broadly interested in the genetic basis and evolution of adaptive traits. For my PhD, I studied short term evolution of the immune response of Drosophila melanogaster and addressed

8 Mar 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Julien Martinez. Research Interests. I have a broad interest in evolutionary biology and specifically in host-symbiont coevolution. My current research focuses on the association between the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia

22 Feb 2016: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Ben Longdon. Research Interests. I have a broad interest in host-parasite ecology and evolution. My current interest focuses on how parasites switch between host species, what factors affect the ability of parasites to

12 Jan 2015: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Helen Leggett. Research Interests. I work on the evolutionary ecology of microbes by primarily studying evolution in real-time in controlled lab experiments (experimental evolution) with various strains of bacteria

12 Jun 2014: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. William J. Palmer. Research Interests. My current research seeks to understand the variation seen in the innate immune system of insects and assessing to what extent pathogens and the environment are responsible for shaping

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Jenny Bangham. Research Interests. In nature, there is a great deal of genetic variation for susceptibility to pathogens, and this has implications for medicine, agriculture, and evolution. Finding the genes responsible

20 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Rodrigo Cogni. Research Interests. I have broad interests in evolutionary biology and ecology. To study fundamental questions in these fields I use insects. Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet, and

6 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Jon Day. Research Interests. My current work aims to more fully understand the genetic basis of the resistance of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to infection by its nemesis, the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi.

19 Mar 2012: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Cristina Ariani. Research Interests. Mosquitoes are vector of a great number of human diseases, such as dengue fever, yellow fever and filariasis. The insect抯 immune system relies on humoral and cellular responses, which

6 Oct 2022: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Publications. 2021. Brosh, O, Fabian, DK, Cogni R, Tolosana, I, Day JP, Olivieri, F, Merckx, M, Akilli, N, Szkuta, P, Jiggins FM. 2022 A novel transposable element-mediated mechanism causes antiviral resistance in Drosophila

3 Jun 2017: to human health. Dengue virus, which infects millions of people every year, has greatly.

17 Mar 2010: axy-ridis. Negative effects on humans have also been reported, includ-ing the aggregation of beetles inside people’s homes during thewinter months, occasional allergic reactions to bites (Yarbroughet al., 1999; ... axyridis. Chemical insec-ticides are

24 Aug 2022: The rabbit colonization of Australiawas accompanied by detailed historical literature on the eventsand people involved, providing a unique opportunity to combine.

18 Feb 2008: Abstract. Anopheles. mosquitoes are the primary vectors for malaria in Africa, transmitting the diseaseto more than 100 million people annually. ... Plasmodium. species in sub-Saharan Africa, and as such areindirectly responsible for the deaths of more

6 Nov 2014: killed tens of millions of people. Other important human. pathogens have originated from other host species, including.

11 Nov 2015: Lymphatic filariasis is a highly debilitating disease, which affects120 million people in the world (Ichimori, 2010).

18 Nov 2015: people per year with an estimated economic cost of $8.6billion (US) (Hampson et al.

26 Feb 2014: Dengue is estimated to occur in. 50 million people each year, representing a 30-fold increase over.