Welcome to our lab! We investigate the molecular, physiological, and behavioural basis of hearing and swarming behaviour in disease-transmitting mosquitoes.
Hearing mediates the reproduction of disease-transmitting mosquitoes. Mating partners are acoustically recognised through their flight tones in aerial swarms where hundreds of mosquitoes fly together. Because of their significance for mosquito reproduction, both hearing and swarming behaviour are ideal targets to develop novel mosquito control strategies. In the lab, we investigate the neuroscience of mosquito hearing and swarming behaviour to understand its fundamental biology and to identify novel potential targets for mosquito control.