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Professor Gordon Hamilton gives Inaugural Lecture on 'Sex pheromones of male insects and disease control'
On Tuesday Feb 7th, Professor Gordon Hamilton gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Chemical Ecology.
Keele's programme of Inaugural Lectures are given by newly established professors within the University and aim to give an illuminating account of the speaker's own subject specialism.
Professor Hamilton completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Old Dominion University/ Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA in 1989. He did Postdoctoral Research at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine before joining Keele University in 1995. His work concerns the control of Leishmaniasis, a Neglected Tropical Disease spread by the sandfly. Research on the Old and New World sandfly vectors of Leishmaniasis has pointed towards the exploitation of the chemical communication of male and female sand flies as a strategy to enhance or replace current vector control methodology. A synthetic version of a male sex pheromone developed by Professor Hamilton has offered the possibility of using highly specific lure-and-kill traps to control the sandfly.
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