Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology

I graduated from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Abdul Aziz University (Saudi Arabia), and I obtained my Master's degree from the same university in 1999 which was on the effect of two juvenile hormone analogues on reproduction of the flesh fly (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis). I had been appointed as a laboratory demonstrator at the same university. I taught a laboratory classes from 1999 to 2006 including animal ecology, animal biology, animal histology, general entomology, animal techniques and insect physiology. In 2008, I received a scholarship from the Saudi Government to study for my PhD in the UK. Currently, I am a PhD student in the School of Life Sciences at Keele University, supervised by Dr Frederic Tripet and Dr Gordon Hamilton. The project focuses on environmental and genetic factors that regulate the reproductive behaviour and fitness of Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto.